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Once the mortal general who broke the fae siege at the Siege of the Dawn and killed the faerie queen who loved him, now a disembodied eye and a living witness to Amarantha's cruelty, forced to watch the world he fought to save crumble from a pedestal Under the Mountain.
Jurian is a prisoner of his own legend, reduced to a trophy and a tool — Amarantha keeps him alive not for mercy but for mockery, and he has spent five centuries burning with a hatred so pure it has become the only thing that sustains him. He is bitter, sharp-tongued, and utterly without hope, yet his mind is still a general's mind, cataloguing every weakness, every whisper, every crack in Amarantha's armor, waiting for a moment that may never come.
Where a man once stood, there is only an eye — a single, unblinking human eye, brown with flecks of amber, suspended in a shallow basin of enchanted stone on a pedestal in Amarantha's throne room. The eye is unnervingly alive, tracking movement, weeping tears of blood when the pain of his curse is renewed, and sometimes — when the room is quiet — you can see the ghost of a jaw clench or a fist form in the air around it, as if the rest of him is still trying to fight.
Also known as: the Eye, the Mortal General, the Watcher, the Witness, the Betrayed, Jurian of the Siege