The sadistic Syndicate Royal, dragged as a hostage through his own falling lair, shot dead by his own enforcer's sniper round.
Maimed and terrified, the Duke of Hands is used by Ephraim as a human shield to bluff his way out of the Endymion lair, cowering and hissing at his thorns to obey. Twice he tries to turn the tables—headbutting Ephraim, screaming for his men to kill the thief—and warns that the Queen will take her time skinning them. On the private dock, as Ephraim drags him toward the escape ship, Gorgo's sniper round punches through the Duke's body and into Ephraim behind him; the Duke drops, making a wet rattling sound, and is left to bleed out on the ramp as the children flee.
His hoard, his cruelty, and his ambitions end with him abandoned and dead on the edge of his own landing pad, killed by his own enforcer's shot.
A slender Pink with alabaster skin, rose-quartz eyes and feathery pink hair; nose shattered, one hand a cauterized stump, cheekbone caved, robe soaked with blood before a bullet takes him through the back.
Ephraim's Syndicate handler; the sadistic Royal killed as a hostage by his own enforcer's sniper fire.