Elias
Status: Last seen alive at the Envisager ritual site Family: Father of Kael (deceased) and Jaro
Overview
Elias spent most of the campaign filed under “presumably dead,” which turned out to be exactly the impression he wanted to give while quietly architecting the Envisager ritual site the whole time. When Kael finally caught up to him, Elias didn’t offer an apology — he offered a choice with no acceptable answer: free Tan, the man who’d abused Kael in the circus, or save Kael’s mother, but never both. It’s the kind of cruelty that isn’t improvised; someone sat down and designed it. That impossible choice is the moment that pushed Kael to swear his Second Ideal — one of the last major turns of Kael’s story before his death, which makes Elias’s fingerprints on it a little harder to file away as ancient history.