Character from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
The Eighth House's cavalier — a massive, exhausted soldier slowly being drained by his own necromancer, who bore it with grim resignation until death freed them both.
Colum is defined by endurance — he endures Silas's soul-siphoning, endures the physical toll of being used as a battery, and endures his role as cavalier to a teenager he is related to and bound to and slowly being killed by. He doesn't complain. He doesn't rebel. He just keeps going, because that's what the Eighth House expects, and Colum is nothing if not dutiful. The tragedy is that his death freed him in a way his life never could. When his reanimated body killed Silas, it ended a parasitic relationship that everyone could see was destroying him but no one — including Colum himself — was willing to name.
Enormous — built like a wall with fists. Dark-skinned, physically imposing, and perpetually tired in the way of someone whose life force is literally being siphoned. Moves heavily, as if carrying a weight no one else can see. His body is impressive; his eyes are exhausted.
Also known as: Colum