Story so far
Seraphina au Raa endures her father Romulus's death rite in anguished guilt, recoiling from his farewell—'You don't have to die'—and refusing to understand his choice, walking away from the family across the dune. From her lonely perch she counts his final steps across the frozen waste, her voice rising as if to will him to the Dragon Tomb, until he falls ten steps short; she whispers 'Pulvis et umbra sumus' as he dies. Warned by her father not to let glory consume her as it did his brother, she carries her grief hard and cold.
When Lysander comes to the widowed Dido and pledges himself to their war, Seraphina scorns him—'there's no place for a Lune in our army'—guarding her family and her cause against the Lune heir even as her mother is swayed to accept him.
Appearance
A lean young Gold woman under twenty with a fighter's muscles, sleepy large gold eyes, a buzzed notched head and a curved cheek scar; in a kryll and scorosuit against the cold, grief-hardened and cold-eyed.
Role
The Rim princess; Romulus's burning daughter, grief-stricken and wary of the Lune heir joining her family's war.
Relationships
Romulus — Her father, whose dying steps she counts and whose choice she cannot forgive.
Dido — Her mother, whose grief she shares and whose acceptance of Lysander she resists.
Lysander — The Lune heir she scorns as having no place in the Rim's army, even as her mother relents.
Sources — 10 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 19
- Romulus au Raa's scarred warrior-daughter, a Rim predator who broke the Pax Ilium chasing a hidden secret.
Chapter 24
- Romulus's fierce warrior-daughter, condemned to exile for crossing the Gulf to hunt the truth of the destroyed docks.
Chapter 25
- Romulus's warrior-daughter who lied to her father—she found the docks' secret, and hands it to her mother's rising war.
Chapter 32
- Romulus's beloved warrior-daughter, torn by betraying her father, who secretly visits Lysander and warns him to bend to her mother.
Chapter 37
- Romulus's daughter, torn between her feelings for Lysander and loyalty to her mother's cause, wounded when denied the duel.
Chapter 40
- Romulus's daughter, sent by her mother as Cassius's executioner—only to be stunned mid-kill by the revelation of who 'Castor' truly is.
Chapter 46
- Dido's daughter and agent, who retrieved the war-evidence from the Interior and extracts it from Karnus's razor to lift her blade for war.
Chapter 55
- Dido's daughter, who once begged to spare Lysander and now, distrusting him, curbs her mother from tearing the family apart over the coup.
Chapter 60
- Dido's daughter and the icon of the young Rim, who testifies to shield her father—then watches heartbroken as his own honesty condemns him to death.
Chapter 62
- Romulus's grieving daughter, who counts her father's dying steps and coldly resists Lysander's push into her family's war.