Character from Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
The patriarch of House Samos — a magnetron warlord who pushed his children toward power and was killed by a gentle scholar's whispered command.
Volo Samos is ambition refined to its most dangerous form. He raised Evangeline as a political weapon and Ptolemus as a military one. He declared the Kingdom of the Rift when Norta's civil war created an opening, crowning himself a king. He viewed his children as extensions of his will — useful when obedient, disappointing when independent. Julian Jacos killed him with a singer's command during the civil war. The gentlest man in the Silver court destroyed the most ambitious warlord with a voice and eye contact. There is a kind of justice in that.
An imposing Silver lord with the House Samos silver hair and the commanding presence of someone who has always been obeyed. He carries himself like a weapon that hasn't needed to be drawn in years.
Also known as: King Volo