Canace's being cold and fiercely intelligent, it is perhaps the eerie similarity she bears to her half-sister Iolanthe in both body and mind that keeps the two in almost constant revilement and contention. From the wintry eyes, the pallor of her complexion, even the frosty demeanor, Iolanthe Claudia Areides is above all her father's daughter. She succeeded as the matriarch of House Ares upon her father's death, chosen over her two older sisters, deemed unfit- rumours whisper that Iolanthe played a significant role in both their mental unhinging. She holds the tradition of the lust for power, thirst for blood, passion for the Empyre, and the scorn for women that has run through the bloodlines of House Ares since its genesis. The embodiment of the House ideals, a frail girlish woman.
Fate is a strange mistress, to be sure.
A mild, reticent bookish type, lost in the shuffle of more flamboyant and driven relatives. Notorious for mingling with more common folk, of all races, ever since he moved to Haven 17 years ago. Nice guy, if boring. The young daughter of the scholar Niklos Lucian Areides, Syne is a member of House Ares, that proud, mad old Praetorian family. Her appearance in the family, several years after the death of Niklos' wife, owes its mystery to the vagarities of spotted Varati-Empyr conflict and the wanderings of her scholar father.