Arathan

Arathan is the son of Draconus and half-brother to Envy, Spite, and Malice, carrying at least partly Azathanai blood through his father. At the beginning of Forge of Darkness he is seventeen and in his year, the Tiste phrase for coming of age. He has spent his whole life at Dracons Hold, with very little contact with his father. He is a bastard son who has never known who his mother is, though Draconus says she left out of necessity and with regret, and hopes his son will forgive her one day. There is little of the Tiste in him, neither the fair skin nor the tall frame, and though his eyes are dark they lack the mercurial ambivalence of the pureborn. He looks much older than his younger half-sisters, which Envy puts down to an accident on a frozen lake that nearly killed him and started his Azathanai maturation early. He thinks himself plain, and he bites his nails.