Character from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
A Fae prince disguised as an innkeeper's apprentice — impossibly beautiful, casually dangerous, and desperately trying to wake the dying legend he calls Reshi.
Bast is a creature of two courts wearing the mask of a third. To the people of Newarre, he is a charming young man with a roguish smile and an eye for the local girls. To Kvothe, he is a devoted student who calls him Reshi with a reverence that borders on anguish. To himself, he is Bastas, son of Remmen, Prince of Twilight and the Telwyth Mael — a being of ancient power slumming in a world of iron and mortality because the person he loves most is dying by inches. His devotion to Kvothe is fierce, possessive, and not entirely sane. He will manipulate, threaten, seduce, or destroy anything that keeps Kvothe in the hollow shell of Kote. He speaks with mercurial energy — playful one moment, coldly dangerous the next, with an alien perspective that occasionally surfaces in his confusion about mortal customs. He fears iron. He fears, more than iron, that Kvothe will never come back.
Dark-haired and impossibly handsome in the way of the Fae — too perfect, too symmetrical, beauty that triggers something ancient and uneasy in mortal minds. His eyes are the striking detail Rothfuss returns to: blue-black and too bright, with an animal quality that surfaces when he is angry or afraid. His features are sharp, almost delicate, and he moves with a fluid, predatory grace. When the glamour slips, his true nature shows in hooves and shadow and something older than the mortal world.
Also known as: Bast, Bastas, Prince of Twilight, Reshi's student