Bastion Winalils

## Appearances

### Appears in

Book I, Untitled Ficlets, Patreon exclusive content including *Evelyn Five-Eyes*

## Biographical information

### Relatives

Marhettin Winalils - sister
Amara Winalils - sister
Mycrift Winalils - father
Plunara Winalils- mother

**Bastion Winalils** [wɪn.ə.lɪlz] is a wright, a doctor and a member of the Black Tongues.

## Appearance

Bastion has jaw length straight black hair with seemingly permanent dark circles beneath his eyes. His clothing is usually glamors due to using offsetting to get around and he rarely bothers putting together a proper shirt, preferring to show off his pecs and abs, something which Sette pointed out when he was introduced to her as a "Lord". He has distinctive scarring on his back, from wounds sustained during Duane's assassination, but he usually uses glamors to hide all of his scars. At the time of our story, he is forty-two years old, though looks younger due to being a Jet.

## Background

He is a Jet of noble birth but was disowned by his family. "Bastion grew up out in the country and was being groomed to take over the facility for his father, but he absconded to Cresce to join the Black Tongues." This is when he learned Continental. His "ghost eyes" ensure he's a chronically hard time sleeping, as the ghosts which are always trying to talk to him and get his attention have an easier time of it when he's asleep. He drugs himself into a black sleep to avoid this.

As a young man Lady Ilganyag talked him into apprenticing to the sadistic Black Tongue Thierry Delicieu, who bestowed elaborate gifts on him and did teach him advanced and unorthodox Pymary, but also raped, tortured, experimented on and whored Bastion out like he had his previous apprentices. The only reason Bastion survived his apprenticeship was because Delicieu was murdered while he was in the middle of torturing Bastion to death. His sense of right and wrong are quite skewed, and while he thinks himself a great rebel who despises cogs of the state for doing what they're told has been following Lady Ilganyag's machinations for years without question despite the horror she put him through as a youth and continues to put him through.

He is responsible for Duane's assassination and resurrection, though it was a job he was hired to rather than something he did of his own volition.

## Relationships

### Thierry Delicieu

As a boy he was an apprentice to Delicieu, where he met Prakhuta.

### Shadwe Grandvin

He is friendly with Shadwe Grandvin. And he sometimes practices medicine in Fachlyne, despite(or perhaps because of) the Weeping Plague.

### Timofey

Timofey is Lord Winalils' loyal ghost servant and reconnoiter.

### Darkest Paul

He used to sleep with Darkest Paul, but they are diametrically opposed these days, with Paul making casual attempts on his life.

## Abilities

He is known to practice medicine in disguise with great skill, exhibiting some degree of compassion beneath his machinations.

Is capable of teleportation across great distances using offsetting which he uses to his advantage but cannot take any physical objects that are not part of his body with him meaning that he is naked on arrival. Because of this disadvantage he instead creates glamours in the form of clothing.

## Recent Events (Spoilers)

### Book I

He went to Sharteshane where he hired Nary-A’Care Frummagem to have Sette take Duane back to Alderode through Cresce. He gave her the blood-filled amulet necklace that can apparently command Duane at night. He also supplied the spell that keeps Elan's heart beating.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/616130780208463872/sapphiredragonstudios-im-curious-was-bastions
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/179457028505/does-bastion-perpetually-have-bags-under-his-eyes