Le Minotaure

He should have been Tiberius Telus, son of Commode Telus and Anastasia Varanov, and heir to two of the Ark's houses. His father murdered his mother while she carried him, and she spent her last breath on a desperate curse: kill your father, and every Telus after him.

He came out of her obeying, with a bull's head and a man's body, and went for the one man in the room he had been born to kill. Only Antoine de Cerberus, coming down out of the sky, kept Commode alive. Running on instinct, the newborn recognized what he could not beat and left through a wall. His father was exiled to Brazzant, beyond his reach, and died there centuries later at another man's hand.

He spent the rest of his life under Telus Island, in a labyrinth of his own making. Its walls rebuild themselves faster than they can be broken, its air will not let a creature fly, and it turns teleportation back on the caster. He hoarded treasure and stole beautiful women to keep, and he searched for his own origins with divination and captives for as long as he searched for anything. His journals are the only reason the ruin of the Varanov is known in full.

To the people of Telus he was a legend and the sworn enemy of the censor's house. He killed Frolix, a Telus by blood through Commode's Brazzant line though neither of them knew it, and took Aldor's companions apart before he fell, and the men who brought out his head were declared blessed by Archon for it.

He destroyed Gyllyn's enchanted rapiers in that fight, which sent the swordsman back to the plain steel pair a dwarf had forged him years earlier and he had never thrown away. Everything those blades became afterward dates from the day the Minotaur broke the ones that came before.