Story so far
Fitchner—Ares, leader of the Sons of Ares and Sevro's father—is dead. Absent from Darrow's Triumph despite promising to attend, he was hunted down and killed by the Sovereign's conspiracy. At the Mask presentation, Roque tilts the ivory box toward Darrow's poisoned eyes to reveal Fitchner's severed head staring back, mouth stuffed with grapes in cruel echo of the murder that founded House Augustus.
The low-born Gold who lost his Red wife Bryn to the Society's machinery, rose to Rage Knight, and hid at the Sovereign's side to work her destruction—the one man who lifted Darrow from grief and gave the rebellion its hope—has been butchered, leaving the cause leaderless and Darrow certain they are undone.
Appearance
A stocky, ugly Gold with flaxen hair over a hatchet face; reduced to a severed head, mouth stuffed with grapes.
Role
Slain leader of the Sons of Ares; his murder decapitates the rebellion.
Relationships
Sevro — His son, who left the feast to find him and will discover his death.
Darrow — His chosen agent, to whom his severed head is revealed as the final blow.
Sons of Ares — The rebellion he led, left leaderless by his murder.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 9 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 10
- The masked, unseen supreme leader of the Sons of Ares, orchestrating a system-wide revolution.
Chapter 14
- The crude Proctor Mars, Sevro's father, now risen to Rage Knight and sent to arrest Augustus's house.
Chapter 24
- The masked leader of the Sons of Ares, revealed still loyal to Darrow—betrayed from within by Harmony.
Chapter 33
- The Rage Knight, serving the Sovereign, who helps bring down Augustus in the Ganymede trap.
Chapter 43
- The crude Rage Knight revealed as Ares himself—the masked lord of the Sons of Ares, and Sevro's father—who saves Darrow from the Sovereign.
- The masked leader of the Sons of Ares, unmasked as Fitchner—Darrow's Institute mentor and Sevro's father.
Chapter 47
- Ares unmasked—the low-born Gold whose murdered Red wife Bryn made him a rebel, revealing his plan to crown Darrow Sovereign.
Chapter 52
- Ares, leader of the Sons of Ares, murdered and beheaded—his head delivered to Darrow in the Triumph Mask box.
- The masked leader of the Sons of Ares, murdered and beheaded in the Sovereign's coup—the rebellion decapitated.