The Call of the Flame, Chapter 15 & 16
Cursed with Glorious Purpose for Runar
The third son of Haakon. As far as heirs go, the first is usually groomed to be the successor King, the second a great Commander, the third a more intellectual path. Runar is that one. Traveling abroad and living among the people of his realm and becoming a learned people person. Gaining qualities becoming of a ruler that Haakon would never approve of. But because of that he is more clever and less foolhardy than any of his siblings.
VOICE: He carries himself like a Prince in a line of Vikings, but is more charming and witty than most would think. Though accented he's not the sort of person you would imagine grew up in a mead hall. He's not weak by any means, he just holds a more emotional strength and the weight of his perception: about the failings of his father and siblings and the decline of his country weigh heavy on his voice and demeanor.
(Midnight Tales) The assumption is the foundation stone of our society, perhaps all societies the world over. The notion of inequity, my friends. For from inequity derives the concept of value, whether measured by money or the countless other means of gauging human worth. Simply put, there resides in all of us the un-challenged belief that the poor and the starving are in some way deserving of their fate. In other words, there will always be poor people. A truism to grant structure to the continual task of comparison, the establishment through observation of not our mutual similarities, but our essential differences.
(The Thin Man) The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the lookout for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
