Bassander Lin

Art by Rene Aigner

In Empire of Silence, Lieutenant of the 437th Centaurine Legion, aboard the ISV Obdurate captained by Tribune DAME RAINE SMYTHE. Under the direction of Centaurine Legion First Strategos SIR TITUS HAUPTMANN. A promising young senior security officer. Frequently serves as lictor to the tribune on political affairs.

In Howling Dark, a Captain of the 437th Centaurine Legion, posing as Commodore of the Red Company fleet and captain of the Pharaoh. An ethnic Mandari and lifelong officer in the Imperial Legions, following in the footsteps of his parents, both Legion officers. Has a highmatter sword taken from the deposed dictator MARIUS WHENT.

—His First Officer, PRISCA GREENLAW, lieutenant in the 437th Legion. Staunchly loyal to Captain Lin.

In Demon in White, a Captain of the 437th Centaurine Legion under command of Legate LEONID BARTOSZ. Participant in the Battle of Berenike.

—On board the Pharaoh:

—LUANA OKOYO, chief medical officer. A Norman officer recruited during the Pharos affair.

—SOISSON, lieutenant. Legion officer attached to the company since Emesh.

—DULIA, lieutenant. Legion officer attached to the company since Emesh.

—ETIENNE, a decurion and former lover to William of Danu.

In Kingdoms of Death, a tribune in the 409th Centaurine Legion and captain of the ISV Tempest.

—His first officer, LUCIUS ASTOR, a commander.

—His captains:

—MATTIAS SIMONYI, captain of the ISV Gran Squall, a super carrier. A veteran of the Battle of Senuessa.

—SEVIM TENAVIAN, captain of the ISV Fearless.

—AUSRIC DAYNE, captain of the ISV Thunderhead.

QUENTIN SHARP, First Centurion and commander of the 409th Legion’s Ninth Special Detachment, the so-called Dragonslayers.

In Ashes of Man, elevated to Knight-Tribune by the EMPEROR WILLIAM XXIII for his service in the great rescue of the three hundred thousand during the Battle of Perfugium. Recipient of the Order of Merit. Legends refer to him as the Phoenix of Perfugium.

But there is yet truth in their stories. Namely, Bassander Lin.

The Phoenix of Perfugium.

I was not with him in his hour of glory, whatever the stories say—nor was his victory my failure. I did not even see it, unless it was in those red flashes in our sky. As I stood there, hollow and broken again, Lin pulled off one of the most stunning rescues in Imperial naval history. His fleet scattered, his ships outgunned, Bassander Lin managed to intercept and salvage the refugees who had escaped Resonno and Perfugium’s gravity entire.

Six hundred twenty-three ships had made it into orbit in those first four waves.

More than three hundred thousand people.

Lin saved six hundred and six.

So many. So few.

Ashes of Man, Chapter 43: Broken Again

Also a veteran of :

Uttaris and the bombing of Aurelianopole

Mathuras