Lysander McRoven

Lysander McRoven is a renowned composer and pianist as well as a member of the Ebony Pervasion. He has been marked by the Diplomat. He wields a combination dagger-syringe that releases a sleeping solution into the bloodstream of those he stabs.

### Appearance

Lysander has slicked back black hair and cold grey eyes. He dresses sharply in tailed suits, cautious to keep up appearances.

### Personality and Skills

Lysander is highly skilled at manipulating people, a smooth talker and intuitive reader of people. His Diplomat’s mark enhances these abilities, helping him to read minds and draw information out of people. He is a skilled liar and serves his own aims above all else.

Lysander is a renowned concert pianist. When he first met the party, he played a piece he had composed for the occasion. He has a driving ambition to learn how to play the Void music, which is a large part of his motivation in working with the Pervasion.

Since Mattias Teppin’s party, Lysander has been much more cautious about appearing in public. Lysander likes to see his approach within the Pervasion as gentle manipulation, calling himself the “brush” to Lord Erimany Talvon’s “hammer.”

### Notable Events

Lysander first appeared in Episode 14, when he and Captain “Snatch” Ogden ambushed the Chain Gang at Mattias Teppin’s party and kidnapped Hyzel Cohen, LG, and Anton Blackburn. During the ensuing negotiations, Lysander offered to recruit Hyzel as a double agent within the Ebony Pervasion, a deal which she accepted in exchange for help retrieving Leonnaire Glynne from the Void. In Episode 16, Lysander exchanged LG and Hyzel for two of the Protectors’ Voidrite spikes.

Since the party and hostage exchange, Lysander has occasionally appeared to swap information with Hyzel. Before the Chain Gang’s trip to Soulspring Resort, Lysander set up a meeting with Hyzel and asked her to pursue a secondary goal of his: retrieving information on the Void music, which Lysander wants to learn to play.

After the destruction of the Ivory Respite, Hyzel rendezvoused with Lysander again in Briamton. This time, he warned her about The Inversion and asked her to come with him to wait it out somewhere safe. Hyzel accepted when Lysander offered her Leonnaire’s spike, which he’d managed to retrieve from Lord Erimany Talvon. The two left for the Gilded in Briamton, where Dispatch found them and knocked Lysander unconscious.

Hyzel called in an Enforcer escort to bring Lysander back to Maxim Kennerick’s estate. Verne Pelkins woke Lysander up there and Lysander cautioned Hyzel against rejoining her old group, as they had been framed for Kennerick’s assassination.

Lysander next encountered the party during the Battle at Counteye in Episode 65, when they entered Argan Marchenko’s command room aboard the Eidolon. Lord Talvon left upon their arrival, telling Lysander the party was his problem to deal with. Hyzel knocked him out with his own dagger, but not before he asked her to help him.

Despite initial opposition from Berrett and LG at the idea, Hyzel persuaded Wren to let Lysander go in exchange for information on the surviving Pervasion members in the Epilogue, claiming that she owed him one for his protection of her when the Inversion started. Lysander boarded an airship off Counteye with the warning that the Protectors would hunt him down if they ever heard his name again and the suspicion that the remaining Pervasion members would try to kill him.