Cassius's gentle twin, murdered by bureaucracy — lured to the Institute by Augustus to die, and killed in the Passage by Darrow.
Julian was the kind, empathetic twin of Cassius, a boy who could sense sadness or anger a kilometer away but lacked the ruthless brilliance the Golds prize. Cassius reveals the truth of his death: it was no accident of the Passage but a move in the ancient feud between House Bellona and the ArchGovernor Augustus. Julian, not sharp enough to be expected to survive, was sent an Institute invitation stamped with Augustus's personal seal — an offer illegal to refuse — and his loving family, hopeful and proud, watched him train hard only to be fed to the wolves.
In the Passage he was paired against Darrow and killed, the gentle prince slain by the beast Augustus's bureaucracy had arranged him to meet. His death is the wound that drives Cassius to run an ionSword through Darrow.
A gentle-faced young Gold, kind-eyed and warm, of Bellona's tanned golden beauty; less the hardened warrior than his brothers, an air of empathy about him.
Cassius's murdered twin, a pawn in the Bellona-Augustus feud and Darrow's Passage victim.