Pandora

Venator Pandora · The Ghost of Ilium

The Rim's aged krypteia huntress, hunting a hidden datacube through the patient, civilized torture of her captives.

Story so far

Venator Pandora, the 'Ghost of Ilium' and the Rim Dominion's greatest assassin, presses her interrogation of the captured 'traders' across the voyage to Io. Twice into Lysander's captivity she visited his cell to sit in silence before asking whether Seraphina brought a datacube aboard the Archimedes—a question she repeats daily, keeping him on just enough water to survive when he cannot answer. Lysander reads in her a yearning for something more barbaric than this civilized torture, staved off only by Diomedes's protection.

What the datacube might contain, and why the krypteia want it so badly, she does not reveal—but her relentless, owl-patient hunger marks her as the prisoners' most dangerous adversary as the fleet reaches Io.

Appearance

An aged, cruel Gold woman with a bald pate and a brown storm-colored cloak, bitter sulfur-yellow eyes in a calloused, age-riven face, snakeskin-thin lips over small teeth, and an onyx ouroboros serpent implant coiling over the webbing of her hand.

Role

The Rim's krypteia interrogator; the patient hunter of Seraphina's secret datacube and the captives' deadliest foe.

Relationships

Lysander — The captive she interrogates daily about the datacube, rationing his water when he cannot answer.

Seraphina — The girl whose Gulf errand and rumored datacube she is determined to uncover.

Diomedes — The Storm Knight whose protection of the prisoners staves off her hunger for crueler methods.

Rim Dominion — The closed power she serves as krypteia huntress, guarding its secrets on Io.

Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 19

The Rim's legendary aged assassin and krypteia huntress, a casually cruel interrogator serving Romulus au Raa.

Chapter 21

The Rim's aged krypteia huntress, hunting a hidden datacube through the patient, civilized torture of her captives.