Roger Foi-Hellick

**Roger Foi-Hellick** is an Aldish rebel and defector. He's married to Maharaishala Sonorie for political reasons even though he is gay and has never been interested in women.

## Appearance

A pretty red haired and eyed young man with his skin and sclera tinted red. He has a piercing above his left eyebrow as is fashionable in Alderode.

## Personality

"Roger Foi-Hellick is probably the most selfless, heroic, pure-hearted man in the story. He’s not perfect, because perfection doesn’t exist, but what he gets wrong he gets wrong because of the family and country he was born into, and no one can help that."

## Background

Roger worked in his family's mines in Avelpit until he started developing a cough, the point at which his families traditionally had their younger members get married. Roger refused a pairing with a copper woman and his family sent him to the capitol to represent them. While there he started developing revolutionary ideas and making contacts that would further this goal, and when he returned home he started a revolution that led to a ten year long civil war later termed the Foi-Hellick Affair which got his entire family publicly executed in the streets, not to mention the many other fatalities. He's a poor combatant partially due to his poor constitution, and his parents actually tried to have him rited, but due to his poor connection to the Khert it didn't take.

## Relationships

### Mallory

Roger and Mallory dated and worked together in their revolution, though Mallory was significantly older.

### Maharaishala Sonorie

Roger and Sonorie started secretly working together during the "Foi-Hellick" affair. There was known collusion but it was thought that Sonorie had mostly abandoned the revolutionaries after helping incite the rebellion by providing military Pymarics. In truth Roger and Sonorie were plotting behind the scenes to destroy Alderode's Dammakhert. Following Roger being hit with the Etalarche Curse he fled to Cresce preeminently and married Sonorie, with the public still unaware of their true plot. They are friends, allies and confidants, and have a baby together, but they are not in love nor have they ever been regardless of the propaganda to that effect.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

Roger has been being fed on by Hanst Mikharhuk Ruckmearkha and his soul experimented on and mapped out by the Black Tongues in an attempt to use his cursed soul as a cypher for the Dammakhert. During preparations for Tirnasday in the Crescian calendar year 416 Roger is just about falling apart, though can still keep up his courtly pretty boy act in public, as his soul is quite degraded. Ruck croons that Roger will not be able to fit back together again after the next time he's fed on, and Roger's part in the plot is thus nearly complete as he will soon be dead or mad with his mind lost.

## Notes

* During planning Roger's name was at one point Gerald before Ashley settled on Roger as his first name. Gerald ended up being used for the smith Gerald Kilpenny.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/185734375325/i-assumed-that-anon-was-referring-to-roger-when
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/182930167005/can-u-give-us-a-little-nonspoilery-info-on-poor
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/113268122095/who-is-gerald-foi-helleck