Red Rising Saga · Character
Kobachi
Also known as Kobachi's
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 4 · Ch. 6
Kobachi seems built for the close, cluttered world of a workbench: bent, watchful, and half-hidden behind the magnifying lenses in his sleepy green eyes. Metal ridges emerging from his pale scalp lend his small, shuffling figure an uncanny, almost mechanized air.
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 4 · Ch. 6
- Books
- 1
Kobachi first appears in Iron Gold as a reclusive, cybernetically enhanced technician whose cramped workshop becomes the unlikely hub for the heist that sets the series’ later arcs in motion. His precise craftsmanship supplies the custom drone and holocontacts that Ephraim’s crew relies on, yet his faulty merchandise and open prejudice against Obsidians immediately mark him as both indispensable and unreliable. Across the single book in which he features, Kobachi’s role crystallizes the uneasy alliance between underworld artisans and the Syndicate’s muscle, foreshadowing how small-time inventors can tip the balance of larger rebellions.
Description
Kobachi is a tiny, slight man in his deep sixties, with a bald head and pale skin. Dull metal implants rise from his skull, while sensors and magnifying lenses sit within his sleepy green eyes. He wears patched-up overalls with multiscrews and tools hanging from his belt, and his bent, shuffling posture gives him a little mechanized-gecko quality.
Connections
Family & partnersFriends & mentorsRivals
Ephraim ti Hornconflicting source relationships
Begins as a wary vendor-customer arrangement; Kobachi’s substandard merchandise strains trust, yet the Syndicate’s leverage keeps their dealings intact through Iron Gold.
Volga Fjorgandiscriminator
Kobachi’s reflexive discrimination forces an early confrontation; Ephraim’s intervention prevents escalation, leaving the relationship tense and unresolved by the end of Iron Gold.
Story so far
BOOK 4Iron Gold
- Constructs the specialized micro-drone used to infiltrate the museum vault.
- Sells Ephraim faulty holocontacts that short-circuit during the heist, nearly exposing the crew.
- Attempts to bar Volga from his shop, revealing entrenched anti-Obsidian bias.
- Yields to Syndicate pressure via the iron rose and reluctantly supplies military-grade gear.
- Is remembered by Ephraim as both a friend and a cautionary example of corner-cutting craftsmanship.
Appearances
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