Character from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
A Sithi prince who forged a sword from grief and iron and died screaming at the top of a tower — then refused to stay dead, nursing ten thousand years of rage into a winter that could swallow the world.
Ineluki in life was not a monster. He was a prince who loved his brother, joked easily, and took offense too quickly — impulsive, proud, brilliant. When his brother Hakatri was horribly burned by dragonfire and mortals were to blame, something in Ineluki cracked. The crack became a chasm. He forged Sorrow from witchwood and iron — materials that should never be combined — using forbidden spells that killed dozens and cost him his mortal life. He died at the top of Green Angel Tower cursing the mortals who had destroyed his people's city, and his hatred was so vast it refused to dissipate. As the Storm King, he is rage crystallized into purpose. He doesn't negotiate, doesn't explain, doesn't waver. He manipulates Utuk'ku, Pryrates, and Elias not through diplomacy but through the sheer gravitational pull of his hatred. His plan to return requires the three Great Swords — and the deepest irony of the trilogy is that the heroes spend the story trying to gather the very weapons the Storm King needs.
In life: tall even for Sithi, with straight black hair worn in twisted plaits, high cheekbones, a narrow chin, and pale luminous skin. Handsome in a sharp, unsettling way. In death: a presence more than a form — glimpsed in dreams as a figure wreathed in cold fire, his features distorted by agony and fury, crowned in frost. When he manifests, the temperature drops and the air tastes of metal and endings.
Also known as: The Storm King, Ineluki, The Burning One