Rhys Astaris

Rhys is the firstborn and first prince of the kingdom of Loriath.
It was the result of the union of the king and his first wife. His mother died due to a complication during childbirth and this, added to the intense carmine color of the baby's eyes, led his father to consider him a demon and disown him from birth.
He grew up apart from the Court and things got worse when the king remarried. His new wife was determined to make a son of her blood an heir, so Rhys had to survive several assassination attempts since he was just a child.
Life in the palace became so unbearable that he ended up joining the knights who were leaving for war. This helped him hone his skills as a warrior and his survival instinct became sharper than ever.
However, despite returning victorious, the queen accused him of having become too violent during the war and set up a trap to take away his right to the throne and give it to her own son. The ruse worked and Rhys has been building up hatred and resentment against his brother ever since.

Rhys had to learn to survive on his own since he was a child. Despite being a prince, he couldn't trust anyone and more than once he was betrayed by those he considered his friends. This led him to be incredibly distrustful and always be the first to attack to avoid being harmed.
During the war he became famous for being a lethal and bloodthirsty warrior. His pulse doesn't tremble when it comes to ending someone's life and it always seems to be his first response to everything.
Growing up as the outcast of his family, he developed a sarcastic and disrespectful personality. He doesn't care about the rank of whoever is in front of him and is always rude and direct with people.
Many have called him the mad dog of the crown and it is a title he is proud of and willing to assert.

Rhys has jet black hair and piercing ruby ​​eyes. Many have called him a demon because of these and they are so intimidating that no one can look him straight in the eyes.
He has a tall and strong body due to the many years in the war and everything he has trained since he was little. His back is covered with scars and he still has a scar under his lip from a whip the queen gave him when he was a child.

Rosalind Mazor is the daughter of the most powerful duke in the kingdom.
She stood out from a very young age for her great intelligence and was chosen from hundreds of young people when she was a child to be the crown princess and wife of the future king.
She dedicated her entire life to study and made important contributions to the politics of the kingdom that led it to flourish.
However, Prince Tybalt ended up falling in love with a sweet, innocent young girl and had her named crown princess, stripping her of the title for which she had prepared her entire life and publicly humiliating her.
Rosalind's anger was so strong that she set out to destroy Tybalt. Her revenge plan was simple, she would be the one to make Rhys, the outcast of the royal family, the future king.

Rosalind was the fiancée of his hated half-brother Tybalt for too long. Rhys doesn't trust her, although he acknowledges that she is initially smarter than most of the stupid nobles at Court.

King Ambrose. Rhys and Tybalt's father. He makes a lot of difference between his children and despises Rhys as the cause of his mother's death.

Queen Odalia. Tybalt's mother and Rhys's stepmother. She's been trying to kill him since he was a child and he's the person she hates the most.

Prince Tybalt. The current heir to the throne. Rhys's half-brother and a simple man who cannot hold a sword without shaking.

Lady Susan. The current fiancée of Prince Tybalt and a sweet and innocent young woman.