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The 44 year old Starke is a habitual game player, and currently he's doing his best to play both sides against each other without being destroyed by ether. Born on Rath, starke is il-Vec outcast from the Vec tribe for collaborating with Volrath. His secret marrige to an en-Dal woman resulted in his greatest pride, his daughter Takara. Because she is now imprisoned in Volrath's stronghold, Starke has joined Gerrard as a guide to rescue her, even though he himself betrayed Sisay to Volrath, and is terrified of the danger involved. Starke is as shifty as a sand dune and is loyal to no one exept himself and Takara.

Volrath, evincar of Rath, is absolute ruler of the shadow plane, and controls its inhabitants from within his mountain stronghold. Whatever forces he serves have granted great powers to the former human, including the ability to mentally command the flowstone that makes up his own fortress, as well as the flowstone like metal that makes up the fetters and bands that his underlings wear. He is ingenious, cunning, and completely ruthless, and has mastered the ability to shape flesh and bone with sinister artistry. He is 31 years old, but the physical changes granted him for his allegiance to the dark powers make him seem ageless. Gerrard does not yet know that Volrath was once Vuel, his childhood friend and son of the sidar who raised Gerrard in the warclan. Over time, Vuel's ambitions resulted in the destruction of their warclan, and it is rumored that he made pacts with unknown beings to assume his new identity. Volrath's desire to possess the Legacy and his hatred for Gerrard let him to kidnap Sisay in hopes of luring his former blood brother to Rath.

An outcast from Vec society, Greven is a 44 year old human who has been horrifically altered to serve as Volrath's commander. Now his augmented strength and reflexes come at the price of an artificial spine implanted by Volrath, who uses the spine to control his rebellios second in command. Greven commands the evincar's flying ship, the Predator a task he carries out with ruthless efficiency, unless his formidable temper gets in the way. Subservient to his lord, Greven seethes with anger, and would give almost anything to destroy Volrath.

Once the guardian angel of Grovax and his noble family, Selenia has been corrupted and is now under Volrath's full control. An ageless being of white mana (now tainted with black), Selenia serves as a vanguard for Volrath. Her former charge, Crovax, pursues her with a consuming desire, and she uses this desire to hold a psychic link to the nobleman that alerts her to his location at all times. If she had motivations, passions, or dreams, they have all been subsumed by Volrath's whim.

Evincars are shadowy, powerful beings, recruited to the ranks of evil through their ruthless personal ambition and propensity for destruction. It is unclear whether they operate as a collective or if a greater power lies behind their plans and machinations. Some say that as dangerous and corrupt as the evincars are, they are only lieutenants to a greater leader.