Lost arm + lower jaw in battle

“Perta killed many vampaneze. He lost a hand and half his lower jaw in
battle–he could not eat solid food afterwards–but he kept going. He was the
most accomplished, determined fighter I have ever seen.

“When a truce was declared, Perta could not accept it. There were others
in his position, a group of angry, hateful Generals. They had lost friends and
loved ones in the battles. They wanted to wage war against the vampaneze
to the very end, even if it meant our end too. It looked as if there might be
another split. We thought that Perta and his followers would break from us
as the vampaneze had, to create a third brand of night-walkers and further
weaken our position.

“But Perta did not wish to harm the clan. When he realized that he could
not convince the majority to continue our war with the vampaneze, he
gathered his followers and led them away. He took them to a place of ice
and savage isolation. Some say it was Greenland—others, the South Pole or
somewhere equally remote. According to one of his followers who came
back years later, they built a palace out of ice, dug tombs, finished off the
blood they had taken with them, then lay in their frozen coffins and calmly
waited to die.”

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The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Birth of a Killer, Chapter 18