Lord Alistair Diomedes Friedrich Marlowe

Archon of Meduia Prefecture and Lord of Devil's Rest, former executor of Delos System, The Butcher of Linon.

Once when Father was little older than I, the vicereine—my grandmother—had been called to attend the Emperor at Forum. Thirty-seven years she was away, and she left the recently orphaned Lord of Devil’s Rest in her stead as executor. It had taken House Orin of Linon less than three years to begin refusing Father his tribute, and by the next year Lord Orin had raised an army among the exsul houses to depose my father and the absentee vicereine-duchess. They’d swarmed in from the outer planets in-system, falling from the sky like rain.
There had been no second year of Lord Orin’s rebellion, and the castle at Linon was home now only to ghosts, a shattered ruin in a twilit crater on a distant moon at the edge of Delos’s system. My father ordered the deaths of every member of House Orin, smashed their genestock, and raided their family atomics. He would have sown the earth with salt if it would have done any good on airless Linon. As it was, he only opened the windows of the sealed fortress and let the air out of the castle.

Chapter 5: Tigers and Lambs

—Husband to LADY LILIANA KEPHALOS-MARLOWE; Marriage given by the vicereine as a reward for defeating the rebellion of exsul houses during her time away at Forum.

—His children: HADRIAN MARLOWE and CRISPIN MARLOWE

—His parents, LORD TIMON MARLOWE and LADY FUCHSIA BELLGROVE-MARLOWE, both dead.

—His brother, LUCIAN ~~MARLOWE,~~MARLOWE, killed in a shuttle crash.

—His ancestor LORD JULIAN MARLOWE, awarded the demesne of Meidua Prefecture for services rendered to the now-defunct House Ormund. Began the construction of Devil’s Rest.

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Empire of Silence

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Chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 29, 34, 34, 36, 38, 39, 42, 43, 56, 58, 61, 62, 64, 66, 71, 76

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Chapters 3, 4, 5, 9, 13

Howling Dark

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