"Pathetic. You priests brag about your strength of spirit, yet when I take away the tiniest fragment you crumple like a ragdoll. All your steel won't protect you if your will is weak."

Grand Marshal Marlow is a master of a powerful band of mercenaries who mix sinister magic with powerful martial techniques. The Hexblades are Calyeron's elite warriors — too bad no one trusts them further than they can throw them. Of course, no one wants to cross them, either. It's good to be feared.

Elric Marlow is a white-haired, gray-skinned pretty boy. He comes off as fabulous and yet a little cruel. Certainly amoral. He's often found with a glass of wine at parties when he's not romancing pretty women or chatting with powerful people.