Simon Randell

*This article is about the original Simon. For information on the new Simon, see Simon Randell (new timeline).*

## Information

### Title(s)

Right Hand to the Prophet
Captain

### Occupation

Double Agent for the Prophet
Red Crown rebel

### Relationships

Garver Randell (father)
Annick Caillabotte (mother)
Eliana Ferracora (lover)⒠

### Appearance(s)

*Furyborn*
*Kingsbane*
*Lightbringer*

**Simon Randell** is the right hand man of the Prophet.

## Appearance

Simon has piercing blue eyes that stand out. His hair is a sandy blonde. As he used to be a Marque, in the Second Age, he once carried the marks of wings he never possessed on his back. In the Third Age, his body is changed. Simon has a face and body covered in scars. The Prophet made sure he bares no resemblance to his past. His body is masculine and strong, due to years of training, with a trim profile.

## Personality

As a young boy, Simon is innocent and naïve. After being stranded in the future, Simon becomes desperate to not be alone anymore. He is not the type to feel his feelings much , he is closed down and most of the time shows no emotion towards anything. Except Eliana.

## Biography

### Early History

Born in the year 990 of the Second Age to Garver Randell, Simon Randell has consistently displayed great power. His mother is Annick Caillabotte.

### Furyborn

As a young boy, Simon works hard to help his father to heal a variety of people. His father is the favorite healer of Audric Courverie. This connection leads Simon to meet Rielle. At eight-years-old, Simon helps to heal Rielle after her trials, and believes wholeheartedly that she is going to be the Sun Queen. In one of these interactions, he becomes the third person to be able to pet Rielle's Godsbeast, the chavaile Atheria. During this time, he cheers her on throughout each trial.

Two years later Simon cowers in fear in a closet in Queen Rielle's palace. Outside of this room, his father helps Rielle give birth to a child. Hidden in this room, Simon counts to twenty before emerging. In the room he sees his father with Rielle, in her hands a newborn girl. After a few tense moments, Simon turns to his father, to see him go stiff. His father falls to his knees, moaning, "He knows." When Simon makes eye contact with his father, he realizes what is happening. Corien has infested his father's mind. Simon desperately urges his father to leave, but fails. He watches as his father launches himself over the queen's terrace to keep Corien from learning that Simon is also a marque. Before Simon can flee, he is stopped by Rielle.

Rielle brings Simon to sit down, so she can tell him what she knows. Rielle informs Simon that she is dying, and that Corien intends to kill her daughter. Rielle hands Simon her daughter in a bundle of blankets, and hurries into her room. Returning with a golden pendant, which she tucks in her daughter's blanket, Rielle tells Simon to flee to Borsvall, knowing that he is a marque. Hearing Corien's voice, Rielle tells Simon to stay hidden until he can flee.

Simon quickly goes to hide in the next room, with the Queen close behind. In this room, he prepares to teleport to Borsvall. He attempts to connect with the empirium, with what little knowledge he has been taught about his powers. The glass around him in the room shatters, and Simon uses his body to shield the small child he still holds. Ignoring Corien's pleas for Rielle to stop, Simon begins to grab a thread which should lead him to Borsvall. However, he hesitates for a moment, but then continues to use his magic, pressing forward to leave. He hears Rielle scream something unintelligible to his ears, and a blinding blast of light shatters his focus. He loses his grip on the newborn in his hands, and falls unconscious into his portal.

Simon awakes in a snowy mountain landscape, not knowing where or when he is, and with only a shred of the baby's blanket. Simon feels defeated. For days he lays in the snow, refusing to move, and deciding to die. Only when he is covered in a thin layer of snow, and his fingers and toes are frozen, does he hear a noise. He sits up slowly and with great struggle. When he manages to open his eyes and focus them enough to see, he sees a figure wrapped in furs standing in front of him.

The tall stranger tells him to get up and to come to him. Simon stumbles around in the snow, but eventually makes it to the stranger. He buries his head into the person's furs, and in that moment decides to live. They move together, and then the figure informs Simon that they are called The Prophet.

Simon, as the Wolf, makes a deal with Eliana Ferracora. He will help Eliana find her mother if she will help him steal something from Lord Arkelion's castle. Eliana says that Harkan and Remy Ferracora must come with them on the search for her mother. Simon agrees.

At Lord Arkelion's party, they find what Simon is looking for. It's not a what, but a who: a girl named Navi. While trying to escape with her, Rahzavel attacks Eliana. Simon arrives and attacks Rahzavel, pitching him over a balcony. Eliana, Simon, and Navi flee the castle as guards chase after them. As they flee through Orline, they meet up with Harkan and Remy. So they can escape, Harkan declares he will stay behind to buy them more time. As they run, leaving Harkan behind, they hear gunfire and blasts behind them. Red Crown rebels in league with Simon help them escape the city. When Eliana demands to know where they’re going, Simon replies that they are taking Navi home, and he reveals that she is actually the princess of Astavar.

While Eliana is meeting with Lord Morbrae, Simon stages bombs to go off so he can get Eliana and escape with her. Simon finds Eliana after she stabs Morbrae and they escape from his castle. Morbrae heals himself and comes after them. Simon and Eliana kill him again. Once outside, Eliana tries to go back in to save the prisoners, but Simon tells her that because she didn't listen to his plan they don't have time to save them.

As Eliana and Simon are fighting with Astavar against Rahzavel and the Empire’s fleet, they come across Rozen Ferracora. She has been turned into a crawler. Eliana is forced to kill her. This results in Eliana’s emotions becoming so strong that they cause a horrible storm. Simon is able to talk her down, so she doesn’t kill everyone around them.

## Abilities

* **Time Travel:**Using the empirium, Simon is able to use threads and travel through time.
* **Teleportation:** Using the empirium, Simon is able to use threads and move to different locations quickly.
* He is able to mask his mind from wraiths like Zahra.

## Relationships

### Eliana Ferracora

Simon and Eliana are initially antagonistic towards each other. After coming to an understanding, they slowly form a friendship with each other. Their friendships develops into a romantic one, and the two eventually become lovers.

## Trivia

* Out of the *Empirium* Trilogy characters, Legrand considered Simon the most fun to write, alongside Rielle, Remy, and Corien.

## References

1. ↑ Legrand, Claire (May 21, 2019). *Kingsbane*. Sourcebooks Fire. ISBN 9781492656654. pg. 230.
2. ↑ Claire Legrand. Who is your favorite character?. Sourcebooks Fire. Retrieved on April 1, 2021. “Rielle, Simon, Remy, and Corien were the most fun to write.”