Lyre

Lyre is a male member of the Clasp who was tasked with kidnapping Vex'ahlia for Berin Abenard.

Appearance
When Vax'ildan first encountered him, Lyre was a young man with silver eyes and a scar running from below his right eye to his chin. He wore all black clothing, including a long ankle-length cloak, a hood, and a mask over his mouth. He wielded long needles, daggers and blackened darts.

After turning him into a copy of Vex'ahlia, Spireling Gideor tore out Lyre's tongue and added it to the staff.

History
He is able to command rats, and used them in his attempt to kidnap Vex'ahlia. After he was prevented from doing so by her brother Vax'ildan, shortly after another failed contract involving a young girl in the Shields, he was transformed into a copy of Vex'ahlia by Spireling Gideor using a staff made of human tongues, as an alternative to being executed. Gideor told Vax'ildan that Lyre would be in Berin Abenard's custody "for as long as our gentleman contractor has use of him."

From that point onward, Lyre was referred to using Vex'ahlia's identity, using both her name and pronouns.

When asked what happened to "her", Vax assumed "in a dungeon, in a rubber suit", implying that Lyre is still in Westruun as a captive of Abenard. Upon learning that there was another person who looked exactly like her, Vex'ahlia expressed interest in finding out who her stalker was.

Trivia

 * Before the publication of Kith & Kin, any detail of Lyre's identity before he was transformed was unknown. Some fans have unofficially dubbed this copy of Vex'ahlia as the Black Vex'ahlia, a reference to the Black Dahlia, an unidentified Los Angeles woman who was a victim to a particularly lurid murder. Like Vex'ahlia's stalker during the campaign, the Black Dahlia's murderer was never found.
 * Vex'ahlia's stalker, the Despoiler of Flesh, and this doppelganger were written out-of-game by Liam and Matt in preparation for Pike's entry into the campaign to explain why Vax'ildan was a member of the Clasp when she first met Vax.
 * When the story about the doppelganger was originally retold during, Vax'ildan said that the Vex copy was originally a child rapist he had abducted on the Clasp's orders. Though it is plausible that the Clasp member was also a child rapist, this article assumes that Matt's version of events is canonical, especially as Liam also stated that he was struggling to remember the details while Vax'ildan was telling Vex'ahlia.
 * Vex'ahlia is not aware of Lyre's current whereabouts, though Laura stated that if Vex ever found "her", Vex would hire the doppelganger as a decoy for public events.