Rilano (Rolano)
Status: Alive, fugitive, and — as of very recently — professionally adrift. Role: Gavlin’s mentor and fellow artifabrian; formerly running research under a demigod, which was going about as well as that sentence suggests it would.
Overview
Rilano was Gavlin’s teacher long before either of them got tangled up in gods, dead men walking, and hidden intelligence organizations that hunt their own agents for sport. He turned up again in Kharbranth looking respectable and turned out to be a secret Diagram operative the entire time — the kind of reveal this wiki has learned to expect from anyone who seems too helpful too early. To his credit, when the Diagram decided Rilano himself was worth hunting, he didn’t fold — he walked away from the organization entirely and rebuilt his working relationship with Gavlin on honest footing, exhausted and dirt-stained but done lying to the one person who’d stuck by him. Since then he’s worked openly alongside Gavlin inside Sebarial’s hidden research lab, The Shallow Crypts, elbow-deep in fabrial theory and — unbeknownst to him for most of it — the technical groundwork for a plan to kill a god.
A complication that has not yet been addressed on this wiki, because nobody has addressed it at the table either: Sebarial, the patron who funded the lab, staffed it, and gave Rilano a reason to be standing in it, is now dead — stabbed through the chest and cognitively erased by his own dagger. What that means for Rilano’s position, his safety, or his employment status is genuinely unclear. He’s still a fugitive from an organization that wants him dead, he’s now also masterless in a lab that technically belonged to a demigod, and this wiki strongly suspects “what happens to Rilano now” is an open thread rather than a closed one. Watch this space.