Corven Ravanor

Corven Ravanor is a marshal-engineer who sees roads, signals, districts, soldiers, and fear as parts of one solvable system. He is precise, tireless, and sincerely convinced that suffering decreases when command improves. His gloves smell of ink, rain, iron dust, and smoke from planning lamps burned too late. He has saved lives by refusing romantic confusion. He has endangered souls by mistaking resistance for inefficiency and conscience for a broken component. Corven's tragedy is not that he lacks mercy, but that he wants mercy to run on schedule.