Otan of Genalle was the Lieutenant and right hand man to Torbal Loat. He had a huge thick beard tied in tails and a full head of dense brown curls (which was later described as long thick hair when he took off his visored, blackened helmet). Otan had a scarred pitted face. He wore a tattered dirty jupon over banded iron hauberk, with sleeves and leggings of mail. Antsy recognized the name and told Otan that he had given the Malazans a lot of trouble during the Malazan campaigns in Genabackis.