Character from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
The original cavalier of the Second House who survived inside her necromancer's body for ten thousand years — a pragmatic, grief-stricken soldier who became Nona's fiercest protector.
Pyrrha is the series' most grounded character in a cast of operatic disasters. She speaks plainly, drinks heavily, grieves openly, and protects the people she loves with the practical determination of someone who has already lost everything and is grimly committed to not losing anything else. She survived the Lyctor process as a remnant soul inside her necromancer Gideon the First's body — living as a passenger for ten millennia, watching through someone else's eyes. When Gideon died, she took over the body and kept going, because Pyrrha Dve does not stop. She became Nona's primary caretaker, a parental figure who radiates the warmth of someone who has learned the hard way that love is the only thing worth the cost. Her relationship with Gideon the First was romantic, complicated, and lasted ten thousand years in the most unconventional living arrangement in necromantic history. She grieves him with the steady, unsentimental sorrow of someone who has had millennia of practice.
In Gideon the First's body: tall with a strong jaw, weather-beaten features, and deep brown eyes that were once green before the Lyctor process. She looks like a soldier who has been fighting wars for longer than most civilizations exist, which she has. Carries herself with easy physicality — relaxed posture, economical movements, the body language of someone who could kill you but would rather have a drink. Her smile is 'strange on her strong-jawed face' — genuine warmth in a shell built for violence.
Also known as: Pyrrha, Pyrrha the Second, Commander Dve