Zander Starling

Zander Starling is one of the antagonists in ***Wraithblade*** and auxilery character in ***Wraithforged.***

## Lightseer

As the Lieutenant General of the Lightseers under his father Teagan Starling, Zander is the only male Starling descended from Teagan and as such is his heir apparent to becoming the next Lightseer Master General to rule over all the Lightseers and claim Lunestone.

Zander is aggrogant and entitled but an incredibly skilled warrior commanding many successful missions. Although he know that he is the heir he feels the urge to prove himself to his father. He harbors a deep envy of the Starling golden miracle child Quinn and resents the preferencial treatment she has received. He wishes to break his little sister and send her into the same retirement his other sisters have chosen.

With the death of King Henry and the rise of a new Wraithblade, his sister is tasked with tracking down the assassin who killed the king a man known as the Shade. Her task is crippled by the fact she does not know the truth about the criminal and that she doesn't possess the weapon (bloodbane dagger) that can kill the simmering soul known as the Wraith King. She has thirty days to complete her mission before her father and her brother force her into retirement. The mission is not meant to cause her death but break her when she fails,

In secret Zander goes out to eventually follow Quinn and complete the mission she was doomed to fail. Zander is armed with the very weapon that is designed to kill simmering souls like the Wraith King. When Quinn confronts the Wraithblade and becomes a prisoner Zander steps in with the intention of killing the Wraithblade knowing that he might become the next host, an abominable fate.

Zander is defeated by the Wraithblade and left to be killed by the Blightwolves who hold a grudge against him. Desperately wounded Zander manages to jam a Bridletame helm onto the Blightwolf Alpha's (Farkas') head and survive the ambush. After riding on the Alpha's back for miles to safety away from the Wraithblade he is thrown to the ground. A terrifying shadow detaches from the Alpha revealing itself as another simmering soul known as the Feral King. The Feral King tore the helm from Farkas' head and encouraged the Alpha into a battle to the death with Zander.

After defeating the Alpha Zander becomes bonded to the Feral King. Badly injured he leads the pack to a farmhouse full of bandits with food that Zander craves now experiencing the intense apetites of a simmering soul. Although he wants to pursue the Wraithblade and have a rematch so he can kill the man he is instead forced to head south in the Ancient Woods to attend the joint gathering of all the Blight Wolf packs to prove himself in something called the Kuraltai. If successful he could potentionally control all the Blightwolves. Arrogantly he believed he could own all the Blightwolves and use them for his goals.

Although horrified by becoming the new host for the Feral King Zander enjoyed the powers being the host granted him.

## Biography

* Lieutenant General of the Lightseers
* Sisters Victoria (eldest), Gwendolynn (Middle sister), and Quinn (youngest)
* Has four children
* Queen Whitney of Wildfaire is a relative and has Starling blood in her veins albeit diluted over the generations.
* Has led hundred and three successful missions through the years.