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[[Vivenna]] and [[Parlin]] arrange to meet with him when they arrive in T'Telir. Instead they are met by his employees, two mercenaries named [[Denth]] and [[Tonk Fah]]. The men take Vivenna to see Lemex, who is bed-ridden, feverish and pale. Denth claims Lemex has merely fallen ill, but the [[Breath]]s the man had accumulated while living in T'Telir, some five hundred of them, render him immune to all disease. In reality Denth had been poisoning Lemex for some time{{book ref|wb|35}}. Lemex regained lucidity long enough to give his Breaths to Vivenna, despite her protests, then, having lost the Breaths' resistance to poison, he soon died{{book ref|wb|10}}.▼
|I’ve gained notoriety through abusing the souls of others. And now I’m dying.
|Lemex's dying confession to [[Vivenna]]{{book ref|wb|10}}
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== Appearance and Personality ==
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|But…I felt so powerful. I could make the very dust of the earth obey my command. It was for the good of Idris!
|Lemex to Vivenna{{book ref|wb|10}}
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Lemex is a crafty, intelligent man in his fifties, an age which is considered older,{{book ref|wb|9}} though up until Denth begins poisoning him he is sprier than might be expected due to his wealth of [[Breath|Breaths]]. When [[Vivenna]] meets him for the first time, he is bed-ridden with fevers that leave him pale and clammy, delirious, and thin.{{book ref|wb|10}} The power he feels from having such a large supply of Breaths compels him to buy more and more Breaths. Lemex justifies doing what he, a follower of [[Austrism]], feels is wrong by focusing on how his aura allows him easier entrance to parties and to [[Court of Gods|court]] assemblies to gather information he might not otherwise have access to.{{book ref|wb|10}} He seems to be a patriot honestly working for the good of Idris despite embezzling money from the king at the same time.{{book ref|wb|13}} Lemex's greed and desire for a lengthened life also spur him to stockpile Breaths, though, and some of the things he writes to King Dedelin added to the way he hides money around his house leaves some doubt as to whether or not he might have turned traitor in the end.{{book ref|wb|17}}
== History ==
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|I believe that Lemex was still loyal to Idris... He was not a traitor; he was simply greedy.
|Vivenna{{book ref|wb|17}}
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Lemex established himself in T'Telir as a spy in King Dedelin's service. The king funded the purchase of fifty Breaths for Lemex for the purpose of granting the man access to court assemblies, after which Lemex began fudging numbers in his expense reports, pocketing the extra money and using much of it to buy more Breaths for himself.{{book ref|wb|13}} The looming threat of war also contributed to the king's decision to send Lemex even greater resources.{{book ref|wb|17}} After [[Bluefingers]] hired [[Denth's crew]] to aid in inciting war between Hallandren and Idris, the crew sought out employment under Lemex as an in with the Idrian community.{{wob ref|6720}}{{wob ref|6723}} [[Denth]] began deftly manipulating Lemex into unwittingly aiding the [[Pahn Kahl rebellion]] while making it seem like he was helping Idris. However, after some time Lemex began to grow less tractable; this together with the news of Vivenna's imminent arrival precipitated Denth's decision to poison Lemex.{{wob ref|6795}}
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Denth claimed that Lemex was embezzling from Idris, a claim that the paperwork in Lemex's house substantiated. When Denth's crew searched his house, they found five thousand gold marks hidden in various places as well as an assortment of papers and letters documenting Lemex's plans and his correspondence with King Dedelin.{{book ref|wb|17}} Vivenna decided to continue Lemex's work, not realizing that many of his plans to disrupt Hallandren's ability to wage war fell in line with Denth's plans to exacerbate tensions between the two nations.{{wob ref|6795}}
== Trivia ==
* In Brandon's first drafts of the book, he intended for Lemex to live, planning him as a spry, capable man serving as Vivenna's mentor. He decided to kill him off for two reasons: he felt like he relied on the mentor trope in a lot of his writing, and he felt that Lemex would become a crutch for Vivenna, hindering her growth as a character. After deciding to kill Lemex, Brandon rewrote the mercenaries to be more competent so they could fill some of that role for Vivenna while still allowing her to be out of her element in T'Telir.{{wob ref|6719}}
== See Also ==
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