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Silent Obsidian queen who withdraws her people from Darrow's war, choosing her nation over vengeance.
Sefi the Quiet, sister of the martyred hero Ragnar and Queen of the Valkyrie, has borne the Rising on her people's backs for a decade—two hundred thousand Obsidians dead in the Mercury Iron Rain alone, which Darrow launched against the Senate's vote. Her senators abstained in the impeachment debate, and at the Howler council she finally speaks her heart: she cares nothing for Venus or Mercury, and will not spend more Obsidian blood so Gold can still sit on high and the Colors still call her people monsters. Communing with Ragnar's spirit through her tattooed second eyes, she declares her duty is to her people, not to Darrow or vengeance.
She withdraws every Obsidian from his cause—if she will not march, none will—leaving with a promise of a seat beside Ragnar in the mead hall, and taking with her the strength that once shielded the Reaper.
A towering, severe Obsidian queen who keeps a habitual silence, with a second pair of blue eyes tattooed on her eyelids that seem to stare with every blink.
Queen of the Obsidians; the ally whose withdrawal fractures Darrow's strength and closes the age of Ragnar's protection.