Zale

Zale is a priest of the Temple of the White Rat, specifically a solicitor sacrosanct with a rank of advocate divine. In Swordheart, we learn that they worked as a clerk for several years before being called into the Rat's service.

Personal Life

Zale uses they/them pronouns throughout the White Rat novels. At one point, Red, a Motherhood priest, tells Zale that they "talk like a guilty man," implying that Zale may be AMAB, or Assigned Male at Birth. Later in Swordheart, Zale rebuffs Sarkis's guesses about their attraction to Halla or himself by expressing that they are too similar to get on romantically with Halla, and that Sarkis is not their preferred type of man.