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Anya
Councilman Hoede is a member of the Merchant Council and a well-off mercher in Ketterdam. He volunteers two of his indentured Grisha, Yuri and Anya, to take jurda parem as an experiment. This plan backfires when Anya takes revenge on her master while on the parem, and it’s implied that Hoede will die as a result.
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Councilman Hoede Character Timeline in Six of Crows
The timeline below shows where the character Councilman Hoede appears in Six of Crows. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...on high alert after a trade ambassador’s recent assassination. His current assignment is guarding Councilman Hoede’s mansion, which would be awful—except Joost has fallen madly in love with Anya, one of...
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...are just “treasured possessions.” Rutger tells Joost to follow him to the boathouse. Inside, Councilman Hoede’s personal guards and stadwatch members stand around a steel box with a window in it....
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Then, the stadwatch cuts the boy’s arm, and Hoede tells Anya to heal him. She does so quickly. The guard cuts the boy’s arm...
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...with all the other guards, Joost stands and points his rifle at Anya. But as Hoede tells the stadwatch not to shoot (Anya is valuable and should just be restrained), Anya...
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Chapter 3: Kaz
...jurda parem to Grisha indentures from each order. The Healer and Fabrikator belonged to Councilman Hoede, and Mikka is Van Eck’s own Tidemaker. Jurda parem, Van Eck says, changes a Grisha’s...
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...Van Eck asks Kaz to accompany him, leading him through the house—which belongs to Councilman Hoede—and outside. Kaz heard there was a firepox outbreak here last week. But at the boathouse,...
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Kaz suspects Hoede deserved his fate—Grisha came here as indentures after the Ravkan war ended. They didn’t realize...
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