Born into a world he was never meant to lose, Rhon Staton was torn from his native realm as a boy and cast into the harsh, unyielding rhythm of Tribal life beside his grandad.

In those early years, failure followed him. He stumbled, bled, and struggled beneath the weight of a life he had never chosen. Yet hardship did not forge him into the man others expected. Instead, it drove him to seek another path—one where he might finally belong.

Determined to find a destiny beyond the village dust, Rhon pledged his sword to the Quinish army after proving himself in a sparring match intended to break him and run him off. Though he entered the ring with no formal training, his raw, untamed instinct and sheer refusal to yield astounded the commanders, turning an act of humiliation into the first step of his rise.

Through iron discipline and tactical cunning, the outsider climbed the bloodied ranks until he earned the title of Commander.

But even command could not silence the pull of his origins.

Haunted by memories of the home he had lost, Rhon abandoned his post and journeyed back to his birthland. There, he discovered that the gates might stand open, but not for him. Rejected by his own blood, he turned once more toward the wastes, carrying yet another failure.

It was during this lonely passage that he encountered an orphaned wolf pup—a creature as displaced and fiercely guarded as himself. In their unlikely companionship, Rhon found something neither his birthplace nor his hard-won rank had given him.

His travels eventually carried him across the salt waves to Red Isle, a Tribal realm where he sought to join the Guardian’s army. Already a battle-tested commander, Rhon had no need to prove his skill with a sword. What he sought was purpose—a place where his years of training and hard-won experience might finally mean something.

Instead, fate brought him into the queen’s favor, and he was entrusted with the protection of the young Prince Odo.

Commander Rhon Staton became a stern, unwavering shield of the crown, fiercely devoted to the prince whose life had been placed in his hands.

Yet beneath his scarred skin lies an ancient inheritance: the rare, legend-bound bloodline known as the Skin of Poth.

Rhon knows nothing of the power sleeping within him. It awaits the Protector’s seal—and the awakening of a force he has yet to understand.