The mage's real colleague and would-be love, who followed him, warned him, and was abandoned for a fictional woman.
Tish is known only through a bitter handwritten note appended to the Council's letter to Ghazi. A colleague from the college, she was with Ghazi the whole time and clearly loved him ('I was here the whole time, but I guess I wasn't enough'), warned him his obsession with the fictional Lika would ruin everything, and now condemns him without mercy: he has doomed the mission, ensured 'Scolopendra will never be defeated,' and squandered the artifact they needed — all for his 'cock.' She signs off wishing him a painful death while still, wrenchingly, urging him to 'do the right thing.' Princess Donut is scandalized on her behalf, appalled that Ghazi 'had Tish all along' and left her for a woman who was never even real.
Never seen; known only through her scrawled, furious note.
The abandoned real love of Ghazi — an off-page voice of fury and grief.