Character from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
The Chandrian with the frozen smile — white-haired, black-eyed, and terrible in his beauty, he killed Kvothe's parents with a cruelty that Haliax himself rebuked.
Cinder is the Chandrian that Kvothe remembers most vividly, because Cinder is the one who smiled. He stood among the murdered troupe with blood on his hands and amusement on his face, and when Haliax rebuked him, he accepted the correction with the sullen irritation of a child caught pulling wings off insects. His cruelty is not passionate — it is idle, almost bored, the casual malice of a being for whom mortal lives are less than entertainment. His sign is the cold — an unnatural chill that seeps into bones and freezes water. He may have appeared later in Kvothe's story as the bandit leader in the Eld, which would make him not merely a monster from childhood memory but an active, present threat. He is the face of the Chandrian that Kvothe sees when he closes his eyes.
White hair like frost, eyes like chips of black ice with no sclera — solid darkness that reflects nothing and reveals less. His features are sharp and beautiful in the way of a naked blade, carrying an alien perfection that is deeply, instinctively wrong. He moves with fluid, predatory grace, and his presence brings a bone-deep cold that has nothing to do with temperature.
Also known as: Cinder, Ferule, the white-haired Chandrian