Ronan Lynch

> And here was Ronan, like a heart attack that never stopped.
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**Ronan Lynch** is an eco-terrorist from rural Appalachia who is the foreordained catalyst of the apocalypse. He is also a magical entity known as the Greywaren, capable of taking anything out of his dreams and making it real. After being summoned, he was welcomed by Thorne under the sign of The Moon. He remains loyal to the High Mage.

## Background

### The Raven Cycle

On November 1, 1996, Ronan was born near Henrietta, Virginia, to a dreamer from Belfast named Niall Lynch and his wife Aurora, who was created from his dreams. Ronan was the second out of three sons, the older being the extremely mundane Declan and the younger being a dream named Matthew. With an uncanny resemblance to his father and the only one of the three to inherit Niall's talent for dreaming, Ronan was the favorite son. He had a privileged childhood, owing to his father's largely illegal sources of income, and grew up happy and comfortable on an idyllic farm called the Barns.

When Ronan was in high school, his father was violently murdered by a hitman with a tire iron. Ronan discovered Niall's body in the driveway outside their home and was instantly changed by the trauma, becoming cruel and unrecognizable to his brothers and his friends. Without her dreamer, Aurora fell into an eternal sleep, which left the boys effectively orphaned, and they were exiled from their home due to a stipulation in Niall's will. While his brothers relocated to the dorms at Aglionby Academy, Ronan moved into the warehouse loft belonging to his eccentric and obscenely wealthy best friend, Richard Campbell Gansey III.

Gansey had come to Henrietta in search of a medieval Welsh king, Owen Glendower, whose resting place was said to be somewhere in the area. Legend had it that whoever woke the sleeping king would be granted a favor. Ronan was recruited by Gansey for this quest along with their third roommate, Noah Czerny, and their classmate, Adam Parrish. They were soon joined by Blue Sargent, the daughter of a local psychic. At first, Ronan kept his magical nature secret from the others, even after they discovered an enchanted forest called Cabeswater hidden in the mountains. After Adam performed a ritual sacrifice and bargained with Cabeswater for its power, Ronan revealed to the others that he was a dreamer and that Cabeswater was his dream. Ronan and Adam began to work magic together and eventually became romantically involved.

Ultimately, the group failed to wake Glendower in his tomb and Gansey sacrificed his own life to banish a demon that had possessed Adam and nearly destroyed Ronan. When Ronan recovered from the curse, he immediately resurrected Gansey by asking Cabeswater to sacrifice itself.

### The Dreamer Trilogy

After Gansey graduated high school and left Henrietta, Ronan returned to the Barns and focused on creating a new forest. Although they spent the summer together, Adam had lost a great deal of his power with Cabeswater's demise and departed for Harvard in the fall. Ronan's brothers relocated to Washington, DC, leaving him alone on the family farm. Ronan began suffering from a magical affliction he dubbed "nightwash", which struck whenever he went too long without dreaming or wandered too far from the ley line that had once powered Cabeswater. This kept Ronan trapped in Henrietta, isolated from everyone he loved.

A mysterious dreamer named Bryde began visiting Ronan in his dreams, mentoring him and urging him to reach for more power. Around the same time, an international organization called the Moderators started hunting dreamers around the globe, convinced by psychic visions that a dreamer would be responsible for the end of the world. Bryde sent Ronan on a mission to rescue another dreamer named Jordan Hennessy, and the three of them united as a team to protect all dreamers from the Moderators.

As Ronan's nightwash worsened, it became clear that he wouldn't survive unless the ley lines of the world were strengthened. Ronan, Bryde, and Hennessy turned their focus from fighting Moderators to annihilating anything that impeded the magical energy of ley lines, which meant widespread destruction of human-made infrastructure and sources of pollution. Ronan and Bryde didn't intend to stop until magic was restored to its ancient glory, but they were betrayed and Ronan's ley line was extinguished, stripping him of his power and condemning him to death.

## Abraxas

### Arrival in Thorne

Ronan was among the first group of arrivals summoned by Thorne's mages. In sharp contrast to the life he'd just left behind, he found himself enthusiastically welcomed by his new patrons and was settled into a sumptuous dormitory with Nadine Cross, Lloyd Henreid, and Kylo Ren. Although his new accommodations were a pleasant change compared to his former rugged outlaw life, Ronan knew that his unstable frame of mind meant that he was likely to manifest his nightmares as soon as his full power was restored, and that falling asleep in a room occupied by three other people meant putting their lives at risk every night. He shifted his sleep schedule to ensure he only slept when Nadine and Lloyd were away, while Kylo agreed to watch over him and fight off any nightmare creatures that might escape Ronan's mind.

Unfortunately, Ronan's power returned while Kylo was away on assignment as the overseer of a mining expedition. Although Ronan made a valiant attempt to delay his sleep until Kylo's return, he inevitably succumbed and destroyed his dorm by summoning hundreds of swords from his nightmare, which embedded themselves in every surface of the room. The mages of Thorne were understanding of the accident and, to Ronan's surprise, he wasn't reprimanded. Kylo returned to the castle while Ronan was in the process of manually repairing the damage and helped stabilize Ronan's dreaming so that he could manifest a magical solution instead.

### Visit to the Singularity

When the High Mage led an excursion to the Singularity, Ronan experienced a surge of power that thrust him into a brief state of ecstasy before he was pulled into the Horizon for the first time and lost his memories. During that initial visit, Ronan appeared primarily as the Greywaren, and he staked his claim on a slice of the Horizon that hugged the Singularity itself. Although his Domain manifested at first as a sleeping forest blanketed in snow, it was soon invaded by Kylo's encroaching volcano. Kylo offered his power as a source of energy to feed the Greywaren, and the Greywaren agreed to become Kylo's possession in return. As a consequence, his forest was engulfed in flames and swallowed up by Kylo's Domain.

With his memories restored upon returning to the castle, Ronan was still bound by his vow to uphold his end of the magical bargain. He assured Kylo that the contract was valid even though he'd given his word while in an amnesiac state. This way, Ronan remained indentured to Kylo and Kylo continued to feed Ronan's power even outside of the Horizon.

### Unrest in Thorne

The pair decided to investigate what the others had gotten up to in the Horizon. With Jaskier acting as a more inviting host, they called a meeting of the Summoned who weren't imprisoned, intending to share information between parties. Although some complied with the stated purpose of the forum, the meeting quickly took a subversive turn, edging dangerously close to encouraging rebellion against the Kingdom of Thorne. Betrayal being anathema to Ronan's code of honor, this soured his opinion of most of the meeting's attendees.

He approached the High Mage shortly after, presenting him with two magical talismans: a feather that could either be woven into his hair or placed on a hat to protect him from mind tampering and a mirror pendant that could deflect targeted attacks. Although the High Mage found these gifts charming, he failed to wear either of them to the scheduled execution of Jonathan Sims, leaving him vulnerable during the attack that interrupted the event. Ronan and Kylo joined forces with Sasarai, Yennefer of Vengerberg, and the Darkling to protect Ambrose from assault by the newly escaped prisoners, especially Estinien Wyrmblood.

### Remaining at Castle Thorne

During the chaos of the attack, Ronan spotted Hennessy among the fleeing prisoners. He caught her before she could jump into a portal, noticing that she was dangerously close to dying of nightwash after so much time in the dungeon, where she had been prevented from dreaming. He dragged her to his dorm and the two of them dreamt together under Kylo's supervision, which restored Hennessy to full health. The three of them were then apprehended by Thornean authorities and taken back to the dungeon for questioning.

Ronan's efforts to protect the High Mage during the attack convinced Jolene of his loyalty, and he secured Hennessy's freedom by promising that the two of them would work together to dream a countermeasure to the magic used by Oliver and Elizabeth during the jailbreak. In the following weeks, he devoted his spare time to assisting Kylo and his task force, welcoming Abigail Hobbs back to Thorne with various dreamt gifts and bolstering the defenses on Kylo's magical study room, used to introduce new arrivals to the Horizon. When the dead rose during Eifstide, Ronan was among the group dispatched from the castle to drive the spirits back.

## The Horizon

### Former Domain

When Ronan first arrived in the Horizon, he created his domain in the immediate vicinity of the Singularity. It appeared as a forest in midwinter. The sun hung low on the horizon, its light diffused by cloud cover and further obscured by dense fog. The trees were a variety of birch, oak, ash, and dogwood. Most of their branches were bare, though a few trees flowered early, sparse sprays of color on an otherwise monochrome canvas. The flowers were astonishingly blue, so vivid that shadows didn't touch them, glowing from within. The path between the trees was illuminated by tiny twinkling lights floating lazily like snowflakes or fireflies. Even though the ground was blanketed with snow, it wasn't cold to the touch. The snow was soft and soothing, giving off a narcotic effect. Every animal in the forest dozed in an eternal sleep.

Without his memories, Ronan appeared as the Greywaren, which meant that he had an ever-shifting appearance. He would go from tree to light to shadow to whisper. When it came time to converse with a visitor, he would assume the form of the Raven King, wearing a cloak of iridescent black feathers and a beaked mask with a crudely-formed crown. After binding himself to Kylo Ren, he lost that crown. His tattoo and his veins took on a reddish glow beneath his skin, burning like hot iron.

### Current Domain

Following Ronan's surrender, the frozen forest was swallowed by Kylo's volcano and has since remained engulfed in flames. Though the trees are on fire, they're not burning away. It's as if there's a furnace inside them, flames spitting from their branches like autumn leaves painted by an impressionist's hand. The temperature is balmy, but not unbearably so, and the haze swirling through the air is more like steam than smoke. Moss still clings to tree bark, only it glows like embers. There are still flowers sprouting from the forest floor, but they're formed entirely from flame. Plucking one does not burn the skin, only warms it with a comforting glow that inspires the same emotions as a home hearth or a friendly campfire: *Gather 'round and stay a while.*

There are few places to actually gather, however. The burning forest is small and densely packed with trees. In the rare clearing, basalt outcrops jut from the earth, resembling manmade steps and forming a natural odeon. It's also not impossible to find enticing hot springs full of mineral water. Tiny orbs of blue light dance and float lazily in the air around the springs, dipping into the water every now and then to give it a bioluminescent glow.

Ronan prefers to remain incorporeal on the Horizon, or otherwise appears as a common raven. When he takes a human form, he very rarely dons his full Raven King regalia, preferring to dress more like he does in everyday life. He's sometimes flanked by an unkindness of ravens and *niri viclis*, the enormous winged horrors of his nightmares, although these creatures seem more intent on basking in his company than threatening visitors.

Whenever Ronan is present in the Horizon, a storm gathers around the wooded slope of the volcano. The crackle of electricity and the occasional flash of lightning accompany his presence, which somehow throws the creative effect of the Horizon into sharper focus. It's easier to create when he's around, as if he keeps distraction and frustration at bay.

## Personality

Once a playful and gentle boy who was raised on fairytales, the brutal murder of his father changed Ronan forever. His heart hardened by trauma, he has few kind words or reassurances for anyone around him. He takes pleasure in making others uncomfortable, with unbroken stares and an unfiltered mouth. Sarcastic, bitter, and often downright cruel, Ronan tells the harsh truth without ever softening the blow, and without considering the consequences of his words. He has an intimidating attitude and frequently keeps others at a distance, even his friends.

For someone who claims to value honesty, Ronan keeps many secrets, lying by omission to protect them. In the act of hiding his nature as the Greywaren, he allowed his friends to believe he was suicidal rather than reveal to them that his brush with death was the result of a nightmare. As his power developed, his own mind unleashed violent monsters that literally tried to rip him apart, the manifestations of his insecurity and self-loathing. Through insomnia and inebriation, late-night street races and mind-altering substances, he attempted to avoid encountering the shadows of his own psyche.

It was only after he embraced all aspects of his being, even those parts he'd hidden from himself, that he was able to gain some control over his magic. When he stopped denying his nature, he finally attained some sense of equanimity. By necessity, however, he remains secretive and wary. Others have killed to obtain the Greywaren: the power to create reality out of dreams. If he isn't cautious, he could end up like his father.

Clandestine supernatural phenomena aside, Ronan has to take care to guard his heart. He is a boy living in constant fear, hunted not only by his nightmares but by the humans seek to either kill or capture him. Ronan, left to his own devices, wants nothing more than to create beauty and care for the innocent. But tenderness puts him in danger and risks the lives of those he loves. He's careful to mask his vulnerability with his rebelliousness, happy to play the thug if that will keep others from digging too deep.

When someone has earned Ronan's love, he will be theirs forever. He doesn't even understand the concept of casual relationships. With him, it's all or nothing. If he gives his word, he can be trusted to keep it. A promise is binding, always, or else he wouldn't have spoken it. His teeth may be sharp, but Ronan is a good friend to the chosen few, and they'll find him to be a rascal with a sense of humor and a fierce protector capable of deep compassion. His affection for others is displayed through furtive glances, covert acts of generosity, and unflinching loyalty. It's subdued but never precarious, just nearly impossible for people to obtain.

The months of relative isolation following the end of the quest for Glendower further shifted Ronan's personality in subtle ways. Rather than explosive bursts of rage, he's become more inclined to turn his pain inward and suffer in silence. He's bitter over being abandoned and betrayed by his friends. It strikes him as an inevitability, something he's always expected that's now come true the way he always feared it would, and he's searching for something to fill that hole in his heart. He wants to be a mentor just as badly as he wants a mentor of his own, desperate to nurture something rather than destroy it.

Ronan is a perfectionist. He can't stand anything that doesn't live up to his standards, which includes most facets of himself. He wants to be a hero, like the ones he idolizes, but he always seems to find himself playing the villain. His misery rolls over everything like a storm cloud — sometimes literally — and he doesn't know how to stop it, even when he can feel it driving a wedge between him and the people he loves.

## Physical Details

Ronan comes off as either a brooding thug or a wicked provocateur. He stares for too long, takes up too much space, and looms menacingly over others. If he isn't scowling, he's smirking or sneering, like the whole world's a joke to him. A pale boy of Irish descent, he's twenty years old and stands at the imposing height of 6'2". He has the body of a boxer, bearing a sinewy physique and long limbs. His facial features are sharp, with an aquiline nose and a sly mouth. His eyes are a stormy blue. His hair is a brown so dark it can appear black, shaved close to the scalp. His stature and scruffy facial hair make him look older than he is.

He has a tattoo that spans his entire back and creeps up his neck and shoulders. In black ink, it depicts various figures from his dreams, including ravens and feathers and claws and winding roads and flowers twisted around Celtic knots, all seeming to change from moment to moment. His arms bear numerous scars, including some from an incident that was mistaken as a suicide attempt, and he always wears five black leather bands on each wrist in a halfhearted effort to mask those scars. Traces of old cuts and gashes mar his face, though not to an obvious degree.

Fashion-wise, Ronan favors goth-punk attire, which he has managed to translate into his new wardrobe. He typically wears black, black, and more black, sometimes faded to grey, fashionably distressed and torn. Others have noted that he can make anything look vulgar when it's on him. The Moon sigil can always be located on some part of his outfit.

He smells like hickory smoke, boxwood, grass seed, and lemon — essentially like a campfire and a freshly mowed lawn. Psychics might detect the scent of the forest coming off of him. He's a heavy drinker so he's usually got alcohol on his breath.

His voice is cold and brittle. Depending on his mood, his words will come out as a hiss, a growl, or a purr. He tends to be loud when other people are being quiet and quiet when everyone else is being loud. He's got a barely-there Virginian accent if one listens to his vowels close enough.

To those with Truesight or similar supernatural senses, there is something deeply off about Ronan. While nothing about him is an *illusion*, exactly, he's not strictly "real". Examining him is a little brain-breaking. Like flickering frames of film, something different from one second to the next. Not like shapeshifting, but like the mind is attempting to resolve the reality that he is billions of things all at once, barely contained in a humanoid shape. He is overflowing with the power of creation, at times compared to a god, though his aura makes psychics uneasy. There is a consensus among them that something like him should not exist.

## Abilities

### Dreaming

Ronan is a dreamer, which means he can literally pull anything out of his dreams and into reality. There is no limit to the possibilities. His dream creations don't have to obey the laws of physics or even logic. If he can imagine it, he can create it. While dreaming, he has access to knowledge he doesn't possess while waking, a sort of claircognizance that makes it easier for him to dream objects beyond the scope of his personal understanding.

The major limits of manifesting a dream are external to him. He can't bring something out of a dream if there's no magical energy for him to draw from, and the larger or more complicated the dream, the more energy he requires. Exhausting a magical source not only means that he can't dream more, but that others nearby are unable to use their own magic, so he's forced to ration his dreaming and give that magical source time to regenerate. Because dreams contain a piece of the dreamer's soul, if Ronan ever dies, any living creatures he's created will fall into eternal sleep.

Dreaming is enormously risky. Because it's tied to his subconscious, it's easily affected by his emotional state. Countless nightmares brought on by his own insecurities have tried to kill him and nearly succeeded. Accidentally bringing a nightmare back isn't an uncommon problem for him. When he wakes after manifesting a dream, his energy is so sapped that he's paralyzed for several minutes, which leaves him vulnerable to enemies or his own nightmare creations.

*Not* dreaming is also risky for him. If he avoids manifesting any dreams for too long, nightwash overtakes him. This means that his insides begin to liquefy and black nothingness oozes out of him. If he doesn't dream immediately, he'll continue to be unmade until there's nothing left.

Ronan is capable of entering the dreams of other dreamers. He has a masterful command of the dreamspace, able to shape their dreams as it suits him, and he can stabilize it for others so that they're able to perform their own dream work more easily. While sharing a dream, Ronan is telepathically linked with that dreamer's mind and can read their thoughts and intentions. If he has access to a powerful enough magical source for fuel, he can even create a dreamspace that others can physically enter in the waking world.

### Acquired Magic

* **Tree Whispering:** Ronan can converse with trees, enabling him to learn of events that were "observed" by those trees and any other knowledge they might share with him when asked. He can also hear about events transpiring far from the trees he's currently speaking with. As long as there's at least one tree witnessing it, it's possible for the information to travel like a game of telephone in order for him to hear about it. This ability only applies to trees, not other types of plants.
* **Energy Manipulation:** Upon arriving in Thorne, Ronan threw most of his focus into studying Elemental Magic. So far, he's specialized in spells dealing with electricity and has displayed a natural talent for it. At a demonstration during the tournament, he summoned a bolt of lightning that surprised and delighted the audience, who cheered loudly at his success.
* **Shapeshifting:** After much intense study at Castle Thorne, Ronan has gained the ability to transform himself into a raven.
* **Unseen Servant:** This spell creates an invisible, mindless, shapeless force that obeys Ronan's command until the spell ends. The servant can perform simple tasks that a human servant could do, such as fetching things, cleaning, mending, folding clothes, lighting fires, serving food, and pouring wine. It is incapable of attacking. If Ronan commands the servant to perform a task that would move it more than sixty feet away from him, the spell ends.

### Skills

* **Combat:** Ronan has trained as a boxer since childhood. He's a tough and capable brawler with plenty of practice in street fighting. He is currently studying swordplay, favoring the greatsword.
* **Agriculture:** Having grown up on a farm, Ronan is experienced in all the appropriate skills it takes to run one by himself. He knows how to tend to crops and livestock, along with manual labor and the handiwork necessary to repair barns and fences.
* **Languages:** Ronan is conversationally fluent in Latin, having studied and excelled at it in school — although his grammar leaves much to be desired. In his dreams, he speaks *tir e e'lintes*, a magical language used by the spirits within trees.
* **Performing Arts:** As a musician, Ronan is skilled at piano, highland bagpipes, tin whistle, harp, bodhran, and guitar. He's a dancer as well as a singer, primarily focused on Irish tradition.
* **Observation:** Ronan displays some degree of eidetic memory for aesthetic and tactile information, and he's highly observant of emotional cues and others' psychological states.

## Items

* **Sleep Mask:** Puts the wearer instantly to sleep. It looks like an ordinary black sleep mask.
* **Mindfuckery Orbs:** Can be used to temporarily stun and disorient multiple targets by enthralling them. They explode into haze upon impact.
* **VEXED TO NIGHTMARE****:** A greatsword with a blinding sun blade that makes the wielder an expert swordsman for as long as they're holding it.

## Relationships

### Jordan Hennessy

Hennessy is a fellow dreamer and was — until very recently — Ronan's partner-in-crime. She is his soulmate, the yin to his yang, and the wielder of FROM CHAOS, the counterpart to his own sword, VEXED TO NIGHTMARE. Ronan saved Hennessy's life after a nightmare nearly drowned her, then became her mentor, working with her for months in an attempt to get her dreams under control. Afraid of what dreamers might be capable of once the magic of ley lines was unleashed on the world, Hennessy eventually betrayed Ronan and extinguished the ley line that sustained his life.

Ronan forgives Hennessy's treachery, understanding that she was deceived by humans who took advantage of her in a vulnerable state. Although he's aware she's almost certainly planning to betray him again, he refuses to give up on another dreamer and believes she'll learn to love her magic once she's figured out how to properly wield it. Ronan and Hennessy's relationship is far from harmonious, as they snipe viciously at each other at every opportunity, but Ronan loves her deeply and would do anything to protect her.

### Kylo Ren

Fresh off of a painful end to his previous relationship, Ronan became enamored with Kylo from the moment they met. He challenged Kylo to a fighting match on the very first day they arrived in Thorne and was swiftly beaten, which only fueled his infatuation. Kylo took on the responsibility of watching over Ronan every day while he slept to ensure none of his nightmares escaped. They became romantically involved after Kylo's return from the mining excursion.

During their first visit to the Horizon, Kylo and Ronan were instinctively drawn to one another and ritually entered into a contract which gave Kylo ownership of Ronan as long as he would fuel Ronan's power. Upon return, they agreed to honor the vows they'd made to each other, even though they had entered into the union without their memories. They have since been nearly inseparable, not only because Kylo keeps Ronan strong and healthy but because they enjoy each other's company. They are not openly affectionate with one another, believing that any public knowledge of their romance would only put them at risk.

### Nadine Cross

Randall Flagg's wife, Nadine, was one of Ronan's roommates when they were both assigned to Room 2 at Castle Thorne. Because of her resemblance to his late mother, Ronan became immediately protective of her. When he was cut after manifesting the sword nightmare that destroyed their dorm, Nadine patched up his injuries. In apology for ruining the room, Ronan later gifted her with a new gown from his dreams. He was disappointed but not surprised to learn that she fled Castle Thorne during the jailbreak.

### Lloyd Henreid

Lloyd was Ronan's third roommate, although they never bonded as closely as Ronan did with Nadine or Kylo. He usually shared Nadine's bed rather than sleeping in his own, which unsettled and confused Ronan, although Ronan never cared to approach the issue. Lloyd fled Castle Thorne along with Flagg and Nadine, which was honestly a small relief.

### Jaskier

Ronan had a negative impression of Jaskier before the two of them ever spoke, thanks to his jealousy of the relationship blooming between the bard and Kylo. Since Ronan had no actual right to act territorial or expect fidelity from Kylo, he could only stand by and seethe while the two of them carried on flirting. He had to acknowledge Jaskier's usefulness in winning over a crowd, however, and agreed that he should be the one facilitate the post-Horizon meeting. Unfortunately, Jaskier insulted him during the meeting by asking him to summon a pierogi. He also failed to understand Ronan's clumsy attempts to explain the Singularity's intentions, which only frustrated Ronan further.

### Yennefer of Vengerberg

Ronan and Yennefer were part of the team that defended the High Mage against Estinien's attack. In the days following the jailbreak, she approached Ronan and Kylo to formally make their acquaintance, and the three of them discussed their disappointment with Thorne's magical defenses. Now skeptical of Thorne's ability to nurture magic, they agreed that they would favor the Singularity's needs over the Kingdom's, if it came down to it. Ronan is fond of Yennefer, impressed by her power and eager to learn more from such an experienced mage. He trusts that her intentions align with his own.

### The Darkling

Ronan first encountered the Darkling in the Horizon, as the Greywaren, without his memories. The Darkling wanted to *see* what the Greywaren could do, which amused the Greywaren, as the real virtue of his power is rooted in *feeling*. The Darkling was wary of setting foot in the Greywaren's Domain and wouldn't be coaxed any closer, which left his curiosity unanswered. Back in Thorne, the Darkling was part of the team protecting the High Mage during the jailbreak, but he and Ronan did not get a chance to speak amidst all the chaos. Ronan is intrigued by him, attracted to him for all the same reasons he was initially attracted to Kylo, but since he's now well-fed, Ronan has no need to actively pursue the Darkling's power.

### Malyen Oretsev

Mal approached Ronan during the post-Horizon meeting, impressed that Ronan had revealed part of the truth about his abilities to the entire group, since that revelation could put him in danger. Since Ronan had offered to provide anything the group asked for, Mal requested a gun. The gun Ronan provided him was an ammunitionless laser blaster fueled by dream energy, which could be recharged by the sun if Ronan's dream energy ever flickered out (that is, in case of his death). He had a good first impression of Mal, warmed by his earnest concern, but that impression has soured now that Mal repaid his generosity by taking his weapon and fleeing Thorne to join their enemies.

### Sam Wilson

Sam was another attendee of the post-Horizon meeting who approached Ronan with an item request, although he was reluctant to make his request without knowing how it worked or whether the process would harm Ronan, which Ronan didn't care to reveal. They agreed that Sam would owe Ronan a favor at an unspecified point in the future, and in exchange, Ronan provided him with a bulletproof shield emblazoned with a falcon. Ronan was disappointed that Sam took his prize and fled Thorne with it, which Ronan considers a betrayal. Sam extended an olive branch by inviting Ronan and Kylo to a celebration in the Horizon, but Ronan remains suspicious of him and attended only in raven form to observe the gathering with Kylo.

## Rumors

* That he lost a tournament fight to a little girl.
* That he's got Fey blood in him.
* That he wrecked his room by summoning a thousand swords.
* That he wrecked a bed at the inn while fucking Kylo Ren.
* That he licked the Singularity while in the Horizon.