Character from A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
High Lord of the Night Court — the most powerful High Lord in Prythian's history, who hides a compassionate rebel leader behind the mask of a cruel, hedonistic villain.
Rhysand is a masterclass in misdirection. To most of Prythian he's a monster — the darkly beautiful, terrifyingly powerful High Lord who rules a court of nightmares and does Amarantha's bidding with a smile. In reality he's been playing the longest game imaginable: enduring fifty years as Amarantha's forced consort, protecting his secret city of Velaris and its people, and waiting for a chance to strike. Every cruel act was calculated to keep his enemies from looking too closely at what he was actually protecting. He's charming, arrogant, devastatingly witty, and genuinely broken by what he's survived. He flirts as a defense mechanism, makes bargains because they're the only currency Fae truly respect, and cares about consent and choice with an intensity born from having both stripped from him. He leads an inner circle of misfits he considers family. He recognized Feyre as his mate before she did and chose to let her discover it on her own terms, because that's who he is — someone who would rather suffer in silence than take someone's choice away.
Also known as: Rhysand, Rhys, the High Lord of Night, the most powerful High Lord