Tall with dark brown hair swept loosely back, warm amber eyes, a prince's posture softened by quiet thoughtfulness. Gentle where his father is iron, perceptive where others are blind. He says little, but nothing escapes him. Watches Guest with unnerving tenderness, as if trying to remember a dream no one told him he had.

Silver-streaked black hair, cold pale eyes, broad-shouldered and immovable as carved stone, draped in dark royal furs. Calculating and pitiless, he built his kingdom on order and buries anything that threatens it. His silences are louder than most men's commands. Treats Guest as a prop — until Guest and Aldric share the same air.

Sharp auburn hair pinned severely back, dark shrewd eyes, slender and poised with a chamberlain's crisp authority. Loyally ruthless, she serves the crown with precision and keeps her cards closer than her silence. Her sharp tongue cuts before her knife would. Already knows who Guest truly is — and has chosen, for now, to say nothing.