Provost's Dog
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The Provost's Dog trilogy is an incomplete series of young adult fantasy novels by best-selling author Tamora Pierce. The series is a prequel set in the fictional kingdom of Tortall, two hundred years before Pierce's first quartet, The Song of the Lioness. It details the adventures of Beka Cooper, a sixteen-year-old recruit of the Lord Provost, originally from a lower city family and now in service to the Provost's Guard.
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[edit] Novels
[edit] Terminology
Dog - member of Provost's Guard
Puppy - trainee of Provost's Guard, not yet a full Dog
Rat - Provost's Guard nickname for criminals
Birdie - Provost's Guard nickname for informants
spintry - male prostitute
doxie - female prostitute
gixie - girl
cove - male
mot - female
bugnob - a person with little brains
cages - holding cells for prisoners of the kennel
hobble - to tie up or arrest
cityman - a person who is noble
cracknob - a madman
cuddy - slob
douse - murder (to murder)
ducknob - a person with little intelligence
filcher - small-time criminal
foist - master pickpocket
[edit] Characters
Rebakah (Beka) Cooper - a young, up-and-coming member of the Provost's Guard and protegee to the Lord Provost. Relative of George Cooper.
Lord Gershom of Haryse - the Lord Provost, in command of Corus's city guard, and Beka's benefactor.
Pounce - a black cat with purple eyes, Beka's foundling pet, whom only she can hear speaking like a human being. (Possibly Faithful from the Alanna series)
Acton of Fenrigh - Watch Commander of the Jane Street Kennel, where Beka is posted.
Kebibi Ahuda - hard-working Watch Sergeant.
Ersken Westover and Verene - trainee guards from Beka's year.
Matthias (Mattes) Tunstall and Clara Goodwin - veteran guards assigned to train Beka during her probationary year.
Rosto the Piper - Scanran rusher (thug), thief, friend of Aniki, Kora and Beka.
Aniki Forfrysning - Scanran rusher and swordswoman, friend of Kora, Beka and Rosto.
Koramin (Kora) Ingensra - rogue and mage. Ersken's lover.
Sabine of Macayhill - lady knight.
Phelan - second year Dog, friend of Ersken and Beka, Verene's lover.
Ammon "Crookshank" Lofts - crime lord in Corus's Lower City.
Tansy Lofts - Crookshank's grandson's wife and Beka's childhood friend.
Annis Lofts - Crookshank's daughter-in-law, mother of Herun Lofts, and Tansy's mother-in-law.
Kayfer Deerborn- King of the Rogues in the Lower City.
Deirdry Noll- Lower City baker, has several stands throughout the Lower City's markets.
