Character from Cradle by Will Wight
The last Arelius Monarch — a reformer who trusted the wrong ally and paid for it with his life, his territory, and his family's future.
Tiberian wanted to change the world — specifically, he wanted to convince the Monarchs to ascend and stop generating the hunger aura that feeds the Dreadgods. He was right. He was also naive enough to share this plan with Reigan Shen, who used the information to kill him, take his territory, and prevent the exact reform Tiberian championed. His death is the defining tragedy of House Arelius and the direct cause of Eithan's intervention on Cradle. Everything Eithan built — the training of Lindon and Yerin, the slow dismantling of Monarch power — is the continuation of what Tiberian tried to do through diplomacy.
Tall and golden-haired in the Arelius tradition, with the family's distinctive blue eyes and the sensory Bloodline that made every Arelius a perceptive observer. He dressed in formal Arelius blue and white, with the bearing of someone who believed authority came with responsibility rather than privilege.
Also known as: Tiberian, Tiberian Arelius, the Arelius Monarch