Character from Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Cal's uncle and the gentlest Silver alive — a scholar in faded yellow robes who loves books more than power and carries his dead sister's diary like a prayer.
Julian Jacos is a singer — he can control others through his voice and eye contact. It is one of the most dangerous abilities in the Silver arsenal. He uses it almost never, preferring books and teaching to the exercise of power. When he finally uses it lethally during the civil war — killing Volo Samos with a command — the violation of his own principles costs him visibly. He raised Cal after Coriane's death, serving as the boy's mentor, emotional anchor, and connection to the mother he never knew. He preserved Coriane's diary and eventually gave it to Cal, ensuring the truth about Elara's cruelty survived. His relationship with Sara Skonos — childhood love, separated by Elara's interference, reunited after the war — is one of the series' quietest and most earned romances. Two people who chose patience over power and eventually got to choose each other.
Pale skin, watery brown eyes, and thinning chestnut hair with grey streaks. Soft hands with long thin fingers. He wears faded yellow robes that Mare compared to 'a human piece of parchment.' He looks like someone who has spent a lifetime in libraries and is perfectly content with that choice.
Also known as: Uncle Julian