Editing Laggart

|image=Laggart by Marie Seeberger.jpg

|title=First officer (on the ''[[Crow's Song]]''), cannonmaster

|first appeared=[[Tress of the Emerald Sea]]

As cannonmaster, Laggart is an excellent shot, and he shoots to sink ships without giving them warning.{{book ref|tress|10}} He is fond of outsourcing work to others and taking credit for it, though he always makes sure to clean the cannons on the ''[[Crow's Song]]'' himself.{{book ref|tress|19}}

Instead of firing ordinary cannonballs that spray water to grow Verdant aether spores and immobilize enemy ships, he sneakily replaces them with more lethal ones meant to sink the ships. This helps Crow, since pirates that sink ships become [[deadrunner]]s, which would cement Crow’s control over the crew. He uses the cannonballs to sink the ''[[Oot's Dream]]'', and he and Crow leave one man alive to spread the word.{{book ref|tress|19}}

=== Sailing the Verdant ===

When [[Tress]] first boards the ''Crow's Song'', Laggart doesn't allow her to eat because he does not see her as part of the crew.{{book ref|tress|13}} Huck spies on one of his secret meetings with Crow, in which she tells him that the man they had left alive had died of unidentified wounds, so they would have to sink another ship to ensure that the world knew that they were deadrunners.{{book ref|tress|19}}

Armed with this knowledge, Tress replaces Laggart's secret cannonballs with ordinary ones.{{book ref|tress|23}} He uses one of them on a different ship, and Crow tells him off. Unfortunately, the [[seethe]] stops just as the ''Crow's Song'' reaches the ship, and they send a cannonball through the prow of the ''Crow's Song.''{{book ref|tress|25}} Crow manages to salvage the situation by threatening the captain of the other ship.{{book ref|tress|26}}

Laggart doesn't know that Crow wants to sacrifice Tress to [[Xisisrefliel]]. Tress suspects that Crow considers him a backup sacrifice, given that he's not as afraid of spores as the rest of the crew. Thus, he "teaches" Tress to fire the ship's cannons just before they set sail on the [[Crimson Sea]].{{book ref|tress|38}}

=== Sailing the Crimson ===

Just before they reach Xisis's lair, Tress, Ann, Salay, and Fort decide to mutiny against Crow.{{book ref|tress|49}} However, she was listening in on their meeting, and sends Laggart to apprehend them. He shoots Salay in the leg, forcing the four of them to the upper deck. Crow tells them that if they can kill Laggart, she'll let them go; Ann shoots at him, but misses. Crow captures the mutineers, and tells Laggart to kill one of Ann, Salay, and Fort if her and Tress don't come back from Xisis's lair within an hour.{{book ref|tress|50}}

After Tress comes back from Xisis's lair and becomes captain, she lets Laggart stay on board the ''Crow's Song''. Laggart is distrustful of her and is convinced that she plans to kill him as soon as he drops his guard. He demands that she get on with it, but Tress tells him that she doesn't want him dead. This makes him realize that, contrary to what he thought, people ''could'' be kind and genuine.{{book ref|tress|55}} This sets him on the path to becoming a kinder, more genuine person himself.{{book ref|tress|epilogue}}

Laggart helps rescue Tress from the [[Sorceress's tower]] by directing Ann as she shoots at the metal golems.{{book ref|tress|63}}

When Tress sells the ''Crow's Song'', Laggart comes with her to the ''[[Two Cups]]''. He starts a bar fight at one of the ports he stops at, landing him in the brig.{{book ref|tress|epilogue}}

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