Felix

Felix is a large man with a thick silver beard and an ebony hand.

Felix remains one of the calmer voices in Assembly disputes. He dismisses Suri’s outburst as theatrical while acknowledging that her question about what to do with the cadets has merit.

As an instructor, Felix is blunt, sarcastic, and harsh without blaming Violet for gaps in training that Carr left unaddressed.

Felix does not soften training after Violet’s collapse. He pushes her into lightning work, warns that battlefield pressure is worse than practice, and criticizes her squad’s boundary failures after the attack.

Felix defends Violet during the Assembly discussion by arguing that no first-year could withstand a memory reader. He also warns her directly that Aetos will try to kill her if she returns to Basgiath.

Felix becomes Violet’s lightning instructor after watching her struggle at the wardstone ritual. His lessons set expectations for disciplined practice with the conduit before he continues pushing her toward safer control.

Felix resumes intensive instruction when he comes to Basgiath, taking Violet to the mountaintop in nearly every spare moment and demanding more imbued conduit pieces as Aretia’s wards decline. Violet understands that he is training her as if she may be the only thing between the venin and Aretia.

During the attack, Xaden orders Felix to keep the first-years safe and watch Aaric. Felix enforces the order by shoving Aaric down the hall when Aaric pauses on the landing.

Felix opposes risking Xaden on what he calls a death wish and also objects to sending cadets after the previous rogue mission left Aretia still repairing its walls.

Felix understands Tyrrish runes well enough to weave a conduit specifically for Violet. The device uses alloy to store her power, and he requires her to practice with it before he continues her training.

Felix teaches Violet to think about energy fields, attraction, and controlled flow rather than simply producing more lightning. His exercises move from the theory behind her wyvern-killing tactic to sustaining a thin stream of power across increasing distance.

The controlled strand of lightning Felix trains Violet to sustain proves capable of imbuing the wardstone, making his precision work relevant to Aretia’s ward problem as well as combat.

After Violet tells Felix the truth about the ward-fliers problem, he gives her six conduits containing imbued maorsite arrowheads as practical substitutes before wards suppress flier channeling.

Felix supplies new conduits to every second- and third-year for wartime imbuing and modifies Violet’s replacement conduit with the bracelet strap she requested.

Felix is present near cases of fully imbued alloy-hilted daggers, and Imogen concludes he must know about the attempt to use Garrick’s distance-wielding when more weapons are requested from hours away.

Felix rides a Red Swordtail dragon.

After the failed Aretian wardstone attempt, Felix observes Violet’s trembling fingers and decides her lightning training should begin the next day.

Felix arrives after the wards kill the test wyvern and accompanies Violet back into Riorson House, where he urgently calls Xaden to the Assembly dais during the immediate response to the successful but flawed ward raising.

Felix comes to Basgiath despite having said he would not leave Aretia. He brings Xaden provincial missives, reports that Aretia’s wards are failing as wyvern push farther through them, and takes up Violet’s training there because Carr will not instruct her.

Felix travels with the Aretian rotation to Riorson House and helps guide Kaori after Kaori reacts with shock to the size of the entryway.