Character from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
The Seventh House's cavalier — a dead man walking in the most literal sense, puppeted by Cytherea as a prop for her impersonation of Dulcinea.
Protesilaus at Canaan House is not Protesilaus — he's a body being worn by a ten-thousand-year-old Lyctor. The real Protesilaus was killed by Cytherea before the voyage, and his corpse was reanimated as part of her disguise. He sits silently beside 'Dulcinea,' holds doors, and occasionally moves when the puppet strings demand it. The real Protesilaus was, by all accounts, a loyal and capable cavalier. He deserved better than becoming a prop in someone else's murder plot.
Huge, muscular, and conspicuously silent. Grey-skinned in a way nobody quite questioned enough. Moves stiffly, speaks never, and radiates the energy of furniture that was asked to attend a dinner party. He is, unknown to everyone at Canaan House, a reanimated corpse being operated by Cytherea like a very large marionette.
Also known as: Protesilaus, Pro