the first offworlder

A heavyset Thaylen visitor — long eyebrows, soft features — who was the first person from beyond the planet that the Cinder King is aware of having reached Canticle. The Cinder King later admits the man was actually found dying rather than killed in a fight; he kept the visitor's books and translation device and rendered what little Investiture he carried into a sunheart now barely lit at all, claimed as a trophy of the stronger man. STD:TSM:Ch 36

A heavyset Thaylen visitor — long eyebrows, soft features — who was the first person from beyond the planet that the Cinder King is aware of having reached Canticle. He tried to talk his way free using a translation device; the Cinder King killed him on suspicion that he was something unnatural, kept his books and his device, and rendered what little Investiture he carried into a sunheart now barely lit at all. STD:TSM:Ch 16