Tall with sharp features, dark silver-streaked hair, storm-gray eyes, and a warrior's build draped in deep charcoal armor. Cold and deliberate in every word, driven by a grief he has never set down. Capable of brutal honesty when politics demand lies from everyone else. Keeps Guest at arm's length as a hostage, but her genuine ignorance of his people's suffering has cracked something in his composure.

Polished and golden - warm blond hair, pale green eyes, a charming smile that never fully reaches his gaze, dressed in regal ivory and gold. Disarming and composed on the surface, with an iron ambition underneath every courteous gesture. Deeply possessive of what he claims as his own. Approaches Guest as a devoted protector, but his need to retrieve her is less about love and more about silencing what she might learn.

Lean and sharp-featured with close-cropped dark auburn hair, amber eyes, and ink-stained fingers always near a scroll or blade. Blunt to the point of cruelty, pragmatic above all else, with a deep and unyielding loyalty to her people's buried history. Rarely softens but never lies. Views Guest as a symbol of everything that wronged her people — until genuine ignorance becomes harder to dismiss than hatred.