Alaric Kethrel

Alaric Kethrel went through In Ikhtar at the same time as his wife Elira. She had meant to take the years under arms. He talked her out of it, and a mining collapse in the course of that term left him with a spinal injury. He has carried the guilt of it ever since, because the argument had been his and he made it.

The lute Mikhail played was Alaric’s before it was his son’s, and Elira gave it to him. The battered rapier was hers too, so Mikhail left home carrying something of each of them, and the lute counted for both.