Blake Korvath

Blake Korvath enlisted at eighteen, a scholarship boy from the factory districts with nothing but discipline and hunger to prove himself. He climbed ranks through merit and blood, earning his commission at twenty-two. But at twenty-nine, Drekhar Ridge carved him hollow, twelve men under his command ambushed and slaughtered, five days alone behind enemy lines. He walked back half-dead and the military pinned medals on his chest. Now thirty-four, he exists between command and ceremony, training soldiers and standing silent at state functions. He ended things with Sera Vannen because he couldn't bear to lose her too. He hasn't slept a full night since.