Character from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
A White-born man with a broken gift — able to cloud minds and rewrite memories, controlled by Dwalia through cruelty and manufactured dependency.
Vindeliar is pitiable more than frightening — a man with an extraordinary magical gift weaponized by people who treat him as a tool. His ability to cloud minds and alter memories makes him invaluable to Dwalia, and she maintains her hold on him through a combination of emotional abuse and controlled doses of a substance that enhances his powers. He is a weapon that doesn't understand it's being fired.
Pale and soft-bodied with the look of someone who has been kept indoors and compliant his entire life. His features have the colorless quality of White blood, but blurred and uncertain, as if even his face can't quite decide what it is.
Also known as: Vindeliar