P'tar Longarm was the baron of a township that included Curl, on the northern shore of the Sea of Gold in northern Assail. He may have succeeded Eusta the Ill. Longarm sought to increase the power and scope of his holdings by driving off the Iceblood clans that lived in the gold littered holdings to his north. To this end, he led fifty armed men and women north to burn the Bain clan Greathold. Only twelve returned, including Longarm. He was so severely injured that his subjects began calling him "Shortarm" and he no longer left his hall. His weakened state meant it was only a matter of time before someone else claimed rulership of the township.