Character from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
Hest's secret lover turned dragon keeper — a man who came to the Rain Wilds planning to steal dragon parts for profit and stayed because a dragon gave him something his lover never did: unconditional acceptance.
Sedric begins the Rain Wild Chronicles as Hest Finbok's closeted lover and Alise's unwitting chaperone — a man so desperate to maintain his secret relationship that he agrees to terrible things. He plans to harvest dragon parts to sell to Chalced, which would make him wealthy enough to leave Bingtown with Hest. That plan collapses when the dragon Relpda bonds with him, transforming exploitation into genuine connection. His journey from self-loathing closeted man to openly bonded dragon keeper is one of Hobb's most compassionate character arcs. The dragon doesn't care about his sexuality, his social failures, or his past schemes — she simply loves him, and that simple love undoes years of shame.
Well-groomed and handsome in the Bingtown fashion, increasingly disheveled as the Rain Wild expedition strips away every comfort he took for granted. His Elderling transformation manifests in blue-green scaling that he initially finds horrifying and eventually accepts as part of who he's becoming.
Also known as: Sedric