Sefi Volarus
SupportingShe towers like a frozen monolith, blue eyes piercing through solemn silence, those tattooed second lids a mark of ancient ice. Her presence hushes rooms, an unreadable force of quiet power. You wonder what storms brew behind that Obsidian calm.
Sefi Volarus, known as Sefi the Quiet, emerges from the shadows of Obsidian servitude to become a sovereign power in the post-Society galaxy. In Iron Gold, she appears as a silent but commanding presence at the Republic’s Senate, her alliance with Sevro anchoring the Obsidian bloc to Darrow’s fragile new order. By Dark Age, she has fully embraced her queenship, transforming from a taciturn lieutenant into a calculating ruler whose icy grandeur and technological augmentations reflect both her people’s ancient mysticism and their adaptation to a new age of war.
Physical Description
Giant Obsidian woman towering over others, with striking blue eyes and black depths beneath blue-tattooed second eyelids. Her massive build commands space, clad in pulseArmor accented by a wolfhead pauldron, demeanor solemnly unreadable. Sefi Volarus is a tall, statuesque woman with fair skin and long pale hair that flows from the top of her head while the sides are shaved bare and etched with astral runes. She possesses long powerful limbs and broad bony shoulders beneath a high-collared white cloak trimmed in blue fur, an icy crown resting atop her head or a bone helmet crusted with snow, and moves with a subdued sleepy grandeur like a living ice statue or winter god. Her face is striking with large black eyes threaded with optic fibers and a second pair of blue eyes tattooed upon her eyelids, a horizontal iron bar through the bridge of her nose, while a cochlear implant blinks at her ear, a datapad sits embedded in her left forearm, and her gloved right hand coils the razor of Aja as she strokes her valor tail with heavy fingers, often wearing furs or luminous white feather headdress among her sky-blue armored Valkyrie.
Gallery
Book 4: Iron Gold
Book 5: Dark Age
Evolution
Iron Gold
Sefi Volarus, Sefi the Quiet, stands as Obsidian leader beside Sevro, her giant frame in pulseArmor with wolfhead pauldron. She watches Senate proceedings with neutral solemnity alongside her bloc, blue tattooed eyes unreadable. Her alliance bolsters the Republic's fringes in the brewing Rim war.
- Sits in the Republic Senate beside Sevro, lending Obsidian legitimacy to the new government
- Wears pulseArmor with wolfhead pauldron, symbolizing her warrior status
- Maintains a neutral, unreadable demeanor during heated political debates
Dark Age
Sefi Volarus is a tall, statuesque woman with fair skin and long pale hair that flows from the top of her head while the sides are shaved bare and etched with astral runes. She possesses long powerful limbs and broad bony shoulders beneath a high-collared white cloak trimmed in blue fur, an icy crown resting atop her head or a bone helmet crusted with snow, and moves with a subdued sleepy grandeur like a living ice statue or winter god. Her face is striking with large black eyes threaded with optic fibers and a second pair of blue eyes tattooed upon her eyelids, a horizontal iron bar through the bridge of her nose, while a cochlear implant blinks at her ear, a datapad sits embedded in her left forearm, and her gloved right hand coils the razor of Aja as she strokes her valor tail with heavy fingers, often wearing furs or luminous white feather headdress among her sky-blue armored Valkyrie.
- Crowned queen of the Obsidians, adopting luminous white feather headdress and sky-blue Valkyrie armor
- Employs Ephraim ti Horn to train her elite skuggi assassins
- Wields Aja’s razor while stroking her valor tail, asserting personal dominance
- Navigates political tensions with consort Valdir the Unshorn amid shifting tribal loyalties
- Is secretly betrayed by advisor Xenophon, setting the stage for Obsidian internal strife
Relationships
Initially hired as a mercenary to train Sefi’s skuggi assassins, Ephraim earns her respect for his unconventional methods, evolving from outsider to trusted operative within her inner circle.
Freihild serves as the unwavering leader of Sefi’s elite assassins, her loyalty remaining absolute even as Sefi’s political ambitions grow more complex.
Ozgard acts as Sefi’s spiritual advisor, blending genuine counsel with subtle manipulation as Sefi balances tradition and modernization.
Valdir remains fiercely devoted to Sefi as both consort and warrior, yet their bond is tested by the political pressures of her queenship and the shifting Obsidian power structure.
Xenophon provides strategic counsel to Sefi, but his hidden betrayal undermines her rule and foreshadows Obsidian civil conflict.
Book Appearances
Iron Gold
Dark Age
First appears Ch 24