Rycon of Olkuyrbe

Rycon of Olkuyrbe is a panther shifter in The Origin's Daughter book series by Alexandra St Pierre. He is a core character who is introduced as a mercenary in the first instalment.

## **Rycon's Bio**

Rycon was born to Rhoan Kallio and Rhiannon Rhysa of the Olkuyrbe settlement. In his early years, his parents were killed in a fire in a village that his father had moved the panther leap too in an attempt to improve relations with the magick folk.

It is suspected that Kallio and Rhysa were the targets of an attack from a dark line of magick folk called the Nightshades. Rycon never fully recovered from this and in his rage and hatred of the magick folk asked his friend K'yen to help him with a planned attack on the board. When K'yen refused, saying it would hurt the leap more than it would bring justice to their people, Rycon abandoned his leap and title of Rhoan to pursue a career as a mercenary, leaving his sister, Rhyalla, to pick up the pieces.

When Rycon accepts a hit on The Origin's daughter from Ash Nevra, he captures Raven, and she accidentally bonds him to her in her attempt to escape.

Rycon and Raven develop an alliance based on necessity, which he is quick to break when Kieran Nightshade blocks the bond between them. After Raven is tortured, Rycon flips sides again and saved Raven from Kieran, worried that she will be killed and he will subsequently lose his life as a result.

He is brought by force to the Dominion of Sin at the end of the first instalment. In the second book, he is reluctantly recruited into the core team after agreeing to sign a blood oath stating that he will not put their mission at risk. Rycon is a key player in securing the second artifact, The Flute. He is fully integrated willingly into the core team by the end of the second book, as he seems to begin to be developing romantic feelings for Kasha, the chameleon.

## Rycon Physical Description

Rycon is roughly 6'1". He had olive skin and dark black hair. His eyes are so golden they are nearly yellow, and his pupils are slit vertically like a cat's eyes. He is lean and agile, and extremely fast, due to his panther shifter heritage. Rycon is almost always wearing motorcycle boots, jeans shredded at the knees, a white cotton t-shirt and his father's leather jacket. He also likes to paint his nails black.

### Rycon's Aura

Rycon's aura is described as 'humid.' It has a heavy, loamy feel to is and it is made up of deep greens, warm browns and cool shady greys.

## **Rycon's Powers**

Rycon is a panther shifter. In The Origin's daughter series, there are several breeds of shifters that live in secret in the human world. Each breed can shift into a different animal and they all have different cultures and ways of life.

### List of positive traits of Rycon's Powers:

Panther shifters have the following advantages that other species in this world do not have

* Accelerated healing - to the point of regeneration. Panther shifters are very difficult to kill.
* Can smell when someone is lying
* Can change into a large panther form
* Resistant to magic attacks (magick can still kill them, but it takes more power than some other species.

### List of negative traits of Rycon's Powers:

* Null to magick - cannot use magick at all, can barely sense power levels or auras. Speaking mind to mind can even be more challenging unless they are bonded.
* Shifting is an extremely violent painful experience, and is only done when absolutely necessary

## **Rycon Quotes:**

Below is a list of memorable quotes from Rycon in The Origin's Daughter

### Rycon Quotes: The Origin's Daughter:

* “Don’t make me hurt you, Kitten, not before I have to.”
* “When they kill someone you love, and trust me, they will; I’ll ask you to put that aside, and we’ll see how easy it is for you.”
* "Bullets are faster than magick."
* “Don’t be lewd. I would just slit your throat if I wanted you dead.”

### Rycon Quotes: The Dominion of Sin:

* “It doesn't matter how nice the wrapping is. A cage is a cage.”
* “I’m going to go kill those guys. Try not to die while I’m gone.”
* "Obviously, I don’t plan on fucking dying today."