Character from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
The Third House's cavalier — a perfectly conditioned duelist whose greatest achievement was dying so Ianthe could become a Lyctor, which is exactly the kind of recognition he would have hated.
Naberius is aristocratic arrogance given a rapier and told it's special. He is an exceptional duelist within the formal rules — fast, precise, technically flawless — and absolutely useless the moment a fight stops following the script. He looks down on everyone, holds grudges over trivial slights, and treats his role as cavalier to the Tridentarii like a birthright rather than a responsibility. Ianthe killed him without his consent to fuel her Lyctoral ascension. It was the least dignified death in a series full of undignified deaths, and Naberius's outraged ghost haunted the periphery of subsequent books — still angry, still pompous, still fundamentally unable to accept what happened to him.
Muscular, precisely conditioned, and groomed with the obsessive attention of someone who considers his body a professional instrument. Blue eyes with brown flecks, and the look of a man who spends more time in the gym than in conversation. Every hair is in place. Every muscle is visible through his clothes. He is the Third House's idea of physical perfection, and he knows it.
Also known as: Naberius, Babs, Crown Prince of Ida