Shaelor is the advisor who has guided the throne of Caelthys for centuries in Caelthys' Awakening, and the steadiest presence in a book built almost entirely around people who have stopped believing hope is possible. At first glance, he is exactly what a century of service should look like. Composed. Watchful. The one fae in that cell whose grief runs so deep that even perception sharpened over centuries mistakes it for background noise. Selanor spends a hundred years assumin

Hadvyon Kollston is a high-ranking official of the Moonstone Prison in Caelthys' Awakening, and one of the few characters in this book carrying a legacy he never asked for. At first glance, he feels like every other senior, with sharp eyes that watch longer than they should and an almost obsessive attention to detail. Nearly half a century of unrelenting service has taught him how to look like a man with no opinion of his own about anything he sees. He has an opinion. A stron

Synvar is a mer-fae, the now untethered mate of the previous High Chair of Caelthys, Selena, and one of the quietest characters in Caelthys' Awakening, until he isn't. At first glance, he is easily dismissed. Adopted by Shaelor in near-infancy and raised out of the public eye, coming from two different worlds and being claimed by neither, he has spent his entire life carrying the burden of being conditionally accepted. In the cell he is imprisoned in, he does not move. For a

Selanor is the High Chair of Caelthys, imprisoned for a century at the beginning of Caelthys' Awakening, and the main protagonist of the book. He embodies stillness, a characteristic that was hammered into him from the grief and imprisonment. His eyes have not opened. His body has learned not to move at all, mistaken for defeat rather than the burden of a grief so deep and complete it has rendered him incapable of doing anything more than living with that grief. His own peopl