“Let the gods rage. They do not frighten me.”
-From A Twist of the Blade
The king-emperor ruling the broken Kethran Empire at the beginning of the Shadows and Crowns series. He took over at a young age, as both of his parents had died, and he believed his older sister had met a similar fate. When that sister, Valori de Solasen, returns to the palace, it begins a complicated war between them as Varen attempts to do battle against the magic and gods of their world at whatever the cost.
Art by Natalie Bernard