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Spoiler alert! Guess what else? Logen isn’t dead.

Another indication of Abercrombie's style the fights are vicious and brutal, and people live or die as much by luck as skill.

They're a red herring, and play a relatively minor role. Are they going to play a prominent role throughout the series? Well, no.

The Shanka are introduced here as wild enemy that calls to mind the adversaries of classic fantasy of yore - orcs and trolls.

Logen's crew are Rudd Threetrees, the Dogman, Tul Duru Thunderhead, Black Dow, and Forley the Weakest.

Logen Ninefingers is many people's favourite character, along with Sand dan Glokta who we'll meet in Questions.

The title of the chapter is a long-term foreshadowing that doesn't pay-off until the last chapter of the third book, The Beginning.

He just split a bad guy’s head open with an axe.

This is the first indication that we’re reading something different.

These chapter summaries are based largely on Justin Landon excellent reread over at TOR.COM, which can be found here.With nothing but hard choices, Logen decides to take a leap into the river far below, rather than die on someone else’s terms 8. Logen is left hanging from a tree root over a deep gorge, with the Shanka clinging to his leg.

When he is attacked by a second Shanka, the pair grapple, and the creature eventually drags him over a cliff edge. He manages to kill one with his axe, but it gets caught in its skull, leaving him unarmed 7. He is being chased through the forest by a horde of Shanka 6 a bestial, wild creature reminiscent of orcs or trolls, often referred to as a Flathead. The story begins with Logen Ninefingers 4 alone in the harsh hinterlands of the North, having been split up from his crew 5 of Named Men.