Character from Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Rage Knight — greatest razormaster of his generation, a living legend who retired from killing only to be dragged back into a war he always knew was coming. Honor in a dishonorable age.
Lorn au Arcos was what every Gold aspired to be and none could match — the perfect warrior, the Rage Knight, the man who had killed more Peerless Scarred in duels than anyone in living memory. He served Octavia as her greatest weapon for decades before retiring in disgust at the Society's corruption. On his estate, surrounded by grandchildren, he practiced the old forms and tried to pretend the world outside wasn't rotting. Darrow pulled him back into the war by showing him that neutrality was complicity. Lorn fought because it was all he truly knew, and because somewhere beneath the legend was a man who still believed honor meant something. He mentored Darrow in the razor, teaching him the Willow Way — a style of combat that turned defense into offense, patience into lethality. His death at Aja's hands was a torch being passed: the old generation consumed by the new. He died on his feet, razor in hand, buying time for people he had only recently decided to care about. The Rage Knight's rage, in the end, was just love wearing armor.
Ancient and enormous, a cliff face of a man gone white-haired but undiminished. Hands like slabs of granite, scarred from a lifetime of razorwork. Moves with the deceptive slowness of a master — economy so refined it looks like laziness until the razor comes out and he moves faster than men a quarter his age. Eyes like winter storms, simultaneously tired and terrifyingly alert. His body is a map of Gold warfare's history.
Also known as: Lorn, The Rage Knight, Arcos