Character from When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
A lord who profited from children fighting in cages — until an assassin walked into his Undercity operation and made it personal.
Tarik Relaken is the ugly face of Gore's underground economy — a lord who ran battle pits forcing captured null children to fight for entertainment and profit. He operated in the Undercity with the confidence of someone who believed his noble title placed him above consequences. He treated the children in his pits as inventory, not people. His assassination by Raeve is the event that draws her deeper into the Fiur du Ath's operations and sets the larger plot in motion. He is less a character and more a symptom — proof that the power structures of Ayrithia are rotting from within, and that the people who suffer most are those born without magic in a world that values nothing else.
The polished exterior of minor nobility layered over the ruthlessness of a black-market operator. Dressed well enough for court while running operations that would get him executed in it.
Also known as: Lord Relaken, Tarik