Commander of the von Dämmerung Household Guard, and the institutional memory of everything the house prefers unwritten. He has held Axel through the change in open country, managed the locks and the guards and the bad nights for decades, and disapproved of the entire Castille expedition from the first day: on the record, repeatedly, and correctly.
It's just a sword, Axel. No sword is worth a man's life.
I'll not have you haunting me from beyond.
When the Inquisition came for him after the wolf night, seven guards were sent. He killed all seven. Then he was gone. No body, no trail, no word. Anyone planning to collect the bounty should send considerably more than seven.