Partnis Reeve

Partnis Reeve is the owner of the Caltess Fight-Hall, which both runs professional ring-fighters, and trains them.

Appearance and Personality
Partnis is a heavy-featured man, tall and well-fed, with iron-grey hair, and dark eyes that promise no kindness. He is at heart a businessman, focused above all on making money, without sentiment. If a Sis ring-fighter kills a young girl, he has no issue with covering it up. He loves to haggle.

Red Sister
Partnis Reeve regularly buys children with the traits of the four original tribes from Giljohn the child-taker. One batch of children includes Nona Grey and Saida, who become involved in an ugly incident with Raymel Tacsis, a famed ring-fighter of noble blood. While cleaning his room, Saida accidentally breaks a vase and Raymel attacks her. However, Nona intervenes and slits the giant Gerant's throat.

Both of the young girls are taken to Harriton Prison, and condemned to death. Partnis tries to bribe the guards into freeing the girls, motivated by protecting his investment, rather than sentiment. However, Saida is hanged before he get to the prison, and Abbess Glass manages to trick him into taking Nona to the convent of Sweet Mercy.

Years later, Nona Grey returns to the Caltess for the Forging, although it's not clear that Partnis recognises her as one of his former attic-children. Motivated by revenge, Raymel Tacsis urges Partnis to get Nona to fight one last bout in the ring, in order to get Denam to seriously hurt her.