Mr. First

Also known as Nishtur Shursht

Minor
First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 6

Mr. First's pale, grubby face peers from the shadows, deep-set eyes burning with desperate cunning. His thin frame wrapped in tattered rags carries the stench of prolonged hardship, and that hidden pistol hints at sudden violence. There's a feral wariness in him that sets your nerves on edge.

Gender: male
First appears: Book 1 · Ch. 6
Books: 1

Mr. First, also Nishtur Shursht, emerges as a thieving antagonist among Vavatch's refugees, his pale grubby face and deep-set eyes marking him as he pulls a pistol on Horza. In the orbital skirmishes, his eyes are burned by Horza's venomous spittle, and he's crushed under Fwi-Song's falling body, legs spasming in death. He embodies the opportunistic predators scavenging the war's aftermath.

Description

Thin and haggard, with a pale grubby face and deep-set eyes shadowed in sockets. He wears slightly less tattered rags or a grimy whole tunic, later thin cloth vestments. A projectile pistol hides in a string holster under his tunic. His presence is furtive and predatory, rags clinging to his gaunt form.