Cassius Ashford

The privileged son of the powerful Ashford family, Cassius represents the rot festering beneath Sanctum Prime’s pristine surface. Driven by his father Darius’s ambition, Cassius is tasked with courting Lyra Valerius to secure an alliance, but his true nature is far more chaotic. Beneath his silk suits and refined manners lies a manipulative risk-taker with a pathological need for dominance and a terrifying lack of empathy. Cassius views the lower castes as entirely expendable, finding dark entertainment in the suffering of others as he gambles away both fortunes and lives.

"The lower tiers don't bleed. They just lubricate the gears." — Cassius