Character from Iron Prince by Bryce O\
The commandant of Galens Institute — an S-rank Atypical user who is one of humanity's most powerful fighters and sees in Rei something that reminds her of herself.
Colonel Valera Dent runs Galens Institute and is herself an Atypical CAD user — one of the vanishingly rare Users whose CADs don't follow standard classification. This makes her uniquely positioned to understand what Rei and Shido represent. She's been where he is, in a system that didn't have a category for what she was becoming. She governs with firm, measured authority. She doesn't play favorites — or if she does, she's too smart to show it. Her interest in Rei is subtle: a brief conversation here, an administrative decision that happens to protect him there, the kind of support that looks like institutional neutrality unless you're paying close attention. As an S-rank fighter, Dent is one of humanity's premier weapons against the Archons. The fact that she's running an academy instead of fighting on the front lines suggests either that training the next generation is more important than any single battle, or that the politics of the Intersystem Collective have placed her where she can do the most good for the most people. Possibly both. She speaks with the measured precision of someone who has learned that words carry weight when you're the most powerful person in the room. Every sentence is deliberate. She doesn't waste time, and she expects the same from others.
Commanding presence that fills a room without raising her voice. The physical specifics matter less than the effect: when Dent enters, everyone stands straighter. She carries the authority of an S-rank fighter — one of the most powerful CAD Users alive — with the understated confidence of someone who doesn't need to prove it.
Also known as: Colonel Dent, Commandant Dent, Dent