Xenophon
SupportingTheir pale eyes gleam like milk under crystal, set in a childish face stretched taut as raw chicken skin, a diamond glinting between. Slender and bald, they move with a priestly calm that feels detached from human warmth, robes pooling like midnight shadows. There's an otherworldly chill to them, as if they've stepped from some sterile scripture.
Xenophon, a enigmatic White with a lean, salamander-like build and milk-colored eyes, emerges in the Red Rising Saga's Dark Age as a priestly observer among the Obsidians, initially serving in supportive roles like recording events and tending wounds. Their sexless, alien demeanor masks a shift from pacific ally to treacherous antagonist, culminating in a secret betrayal of their leader and a gruesome disintegration by heartspike bomb. This arc encapsulates the Whites' inscrutable pivot from ethereal counsel to entangled peril amid the saga's escalating wars.
Physical Description
Slender and lean with a thin salamander build, Xenophon's bald head accentuates their childish face, pale as raw chicken skin. Crystal-clear pale eyes, milk-colored and piercing, peer from beneath a large diamond embedded between them, lending an alien, sexless mammal quality. They favor midnight robes that pool around them or thermal gear wrapped to the nose, adorned with coin-file gold stars, exuding a priest-like pacific demeanor that can turn grim or bored. Disheveled in later moments, their presence feels detached and otherworldly, often marked by a pistol-whipped face.
Evolution
Dark Age
Xenophon begins as a lean, bald White in midnight robes, their childish face and milk-colored eyes marked by a forehead diamond, serving in priest-like roles amid Obsidian courts—from recording events to tending wounds. Shifting from supporting ally to antagonist, they lead hunts, kneel in chambers, and sit cross-legged shivering in disheveled thermal gear, their thin salamander build enduring pistol-whips. Ultimately disintegrated by a heartspike bomb, they arc from pacific observer to entangled foe, their sexless alien demeanor defining tense interactions with figures like Sefi.
- Serves as a priest-like White in Obsidian courts, recording events and tending wounds.
- Leads hunts and kneels in chambers, shifting from ally to antagonist.
- Sits cross-legged shivering in disheveled thermal gear after enduring pistol-whips.
- Secretly betrays Sefi the Quiet as her trusted advisor.
- Meets a fiery end, disintegrated by a heartspike bomb.
Relationships
Xenophon acts as Sefi's trusted White advisor in Dark Age, providing counsel amid Obsidian courts, but their relationship evolves into betrayal as Xenophon's antagonistic turn leads to secret treachery against her.
Book Appearances
Dark Age
First appears Ch 24