Shivers tracks down Rudd Threetrees and his crew of rebel Northmen near Dunbrec. However, he doesn’t like Bethod much, nor his witch Caurib, his allies from beyond the Crinna, his champion The Feared, and worst of all, his alliance with the Shanka. Shivers has grown up to be a well-respected Named Man, and a leader of two score Carls.

In Red Country, he shows signs of his former idealism, when he finally decides to lay his feud with Logen to rest. In The Heroes, he's an amoral barbarian and a cut-priced Bloody-Nine do not mistreat him or you'll learn the hard way. But following his torture where one of his eyes is burnt out, he starts a slide towards darkness, and betrays his leader. In Best Served Cold, he goes far from home to try to be a better man. He carries a bitter need for vengeance against Logen, though he decides in the end not to participate in the betrayal of Ninefingers. In the trilogy, he's a well-intentioned and amiable fellow with a ' lot of bones'. He goes through quite an inner journey over the course of the books. He has long black hair that hangs in his face.ĭuring his time in Styria, he gets a hair cut and wears styrian clothes, but by the end he has gone back to his more northen look Shivers is very tall and broad through the shoulders. Shivers claims that he got his Name because his enemies shiver in fear when they see him, but actually he got pegged with the unfortunate nickname after he fell into a freezing river on his first raid, and climbing out shivering with cold.

Shivers sometimes wonders if he hates Logen just for killing his brother, or for taking away his chance of killing him himself. While his father was so proud of his eldest son that he wished Shivers had gone back to the mud instead. His brother seemed outwardly caring, but would secretly beat his younger brother. It is revealed that, in truth Shivers hated his brother, and resented his father. Shivers still blames Logen for both of their deaths, and has long dreamed of vengeance. The death of his eldest son drove Rattleneck into alcoholism and an early death. Bethod promised the boy mercy to pressure Rattleneck to make peace with him, however Ninefingers butchered him anyway and nailed his head to Bethod's standard. His elder brother was captured in battle by Logen Ninefingers. Shivers is the youngest son of Rattleneck, a chieftain who was opposed to Bethod.

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