Ramin Solost Muel

Ramin Solost Muel is a long-lived Vampire whose loyalty to the Night Sky draws her from supervised civilian life into intelligence work, divine conflict, and space exploration. Trained as a swordswoman and later chosen by the spirit of Electricity, she becomes a link between Hwee-Kyung's troubled past and Avartin's future, ultimately commanding missions against both moons.

Biography

A watched Vampire and Hwee-Kyung's trail

Ramin begins in Vaseniol under official supervision because the Empire still treats Vampires as dangerous even after ending their automatic persecution. Her blood arrives in sealed monthly rations, which she regards as a shackle rather than charity. When Union Kingdom Fang agents show her stores of epidemic material and attempt to recruit her, she lets their contact develop long enough to expose them, then rejects their cause and kills the agents who try to force her cooperation. (Chapters 176–178)

Her supervisor, Gorgota Falu, is part of the Imperial Intelligence Agency operation watching the infiltrators, and Ramin's choice establishes that she is more than a monitored liability. She also reveals that Hwee-Kyung turned her into a Vampire when she was dying. Because Ramin remembers her maker and knows the western continent, the Pantheon asks her to guide a party searching for Hwee-Kyung through the hostile Union Kingdom. (Chapters 178–182)

Ramin resists calling Hwee-Kyung a parent because their shared history mixes rescue, coercion, instruction, and abandonment. Juran, a descendant carrying Hwee-Kyung's antlers, nevertheless persuades her to treat blood relationship as something that can be chosen and repaired. Ramin accepts the mission as the Pantheon's will, but her growing concern for Juran and her old teacher makes the search personal rather than merely an intelligence assignment. (Chapters 181–183) (Chapters 188–190)

Chosen by Electricity

On the journey west, Ramin is thrown onto an airship's envelope to stop the veteran Mahim from destroying it. Her swordsmanship and Vampire resilience keep her alive, but accumulated wounds and blood loss leave her unable to overcome the Minotaur's four arms and divine combat gifts. At that crisis, Pzzt speaks within her, identifies Ramin as chosen, and gives her an electrical current that disrupts Mahim's nerves and stops the heart long enough for a finishing strike. (Chapters 184–185)

Victory immediately confronts Ramin with her hunger. Mahim's blood tempts her, recalling earlier occasions when she pushed guilty people toward death because she needed to feed. She refuses to drink and instead uses Mahim's death to provoke the enemy guardian away from its advantageous position. The choice does not make her morally spotless, but it shows why Electricity considers her remaining possibilities more important than the lives she has already taken. (Chapter 185)

At Rubeil, Ramin infiltrates the labor camp holding Hwee-Kyung and refuses to leave her behind even after the operation becomes a battle among apostles. Fighting beside Sairan Muel, she breaks through the Fang agents and protects Hwee-Kyung and Juran from execution. When the Pantheon later apologizes to Hwee-Kyung and reunites her with Sairan, Ramin finds that the journey she regarded as punishment has instead earned gratitude and restored a damaged family. (Chapters 191–200)

Agent in the continental war

Ramin continues working for the Pantheon as a tracker of forgotten believers whose unexplained Miracles leak Faith. When the conflict with the Union Kingdom intensifies, she, Gorgota, and Owen infiltrate the enemy Sky Castle to sabotage its engines. Ramin knows she cannot overpower the apostle Aruega Rob, but predicts the Werewolf's movements from muscle and posture, combines sword attacks with electricity, and holds the enemy in place long enough for the Empire's artillery to change the fight. (Chapters 216–217) (Chapters 237–242)

The encounter leaves Ramin critically injured while Aruega's apostolic healing remains active, making endurance itself her contribution. She returns to duty wrapped in bandages and helps defend the rear at Rasdasil when Aruega attempts another infiltration. Her trust in Owen and the other defenders lets her keep attention on immediate threats rather than the divine battle behind her, and their resistance prevents the Union Kingdom's covert force from overturning the front. (Chapters 239–252)

Against the Canine agent Del, Ramin acknowledges that the gods failed Del's family and that apostasy can be justified. She nevertheless kills Del because understanding an opponent does not remove her duty to stop the attack. This distinction reflects a more mature faith than simple certainty: Ramin still believes in the Night Sky, but no longer needs to claim that divine care reaches everyone or excuses every injustice. (Chapter 256)

Ion's thesis and the moons

Decades later, Ramin's forum identity and Intelligence Agency work bring her into contact with Ion Iolkaf, an amateur astronomer targeted after writing about a hidden second moon. She protects him from assassins, investigates whether the scholar Lide is a Fairy, and arranges visits to research institutions so Ion's work cannot be quietly suppressed. Her method combines open emotion, personal trust, and institutional connections rather than the impersonal deception Ion expects from an agent. (Chapters 258–265)

Ion's completed thesis gives the Empire evidence of Loom, and Ramin enters the moon-facing program as an astronaut candidate. Her physics and programming are not the strongest in the cohort, but her long record of surviving crises, broad education, and command judgment make her the most trusted spacecraft leader. Repeated missions increase her responsibility until she launches from Starkeeper as captain of the operation against Loom. (Chapters 266–279)

Ramin docks under fire, coordinates with the hidden long-stayer Lakrak, and helps bring the assault close enough for him to attack Loom and the Pulverizer. After the Fall, Starkeeper orders her onward to Yonda. There she completes a secret trial, releases Hegemonia, Bolt, and Chistka from vassal statues, and—unable to know Nebula's exact intent—asks the restored gods in her own name to save Avartin. (Chapters 279–282) (Chapters 297–298)

Appearance and personality

Ramin is a female Vampire who outwardly resembles a Human. She commonly wears a hood to shield herself from daylight, though her blood makes her less vulnerable to sunlight than some other Vampires. In later missions she appears in modern field equipment and a white airtight spacesuit. The corpus does not establish a consistent hair color, eye color, or other distinctive facial feature. (Chapters 177–184) (Chapter 237) (Chapters 297–298)

Blunt, pragmatic, and dryly humorous, Ramin often speaks before deciding whether a thought is tactful. She carries lasting guilt about feeding and killing, yet converts it into a rule of efficiency: a life sustained by others' pain should not be wasted. Her loyalty is strong without being naïve; she can admit divine failure, feel fear without disguising it as certainty, and act from her own judgment when a god's intention is unavailable. (Chapter 179) (Chapter 185) (Chapters 188–200) (Chapter 256) (Chapter 279) (Chapter 298)

Powers and abilities

Vampirism

Hwee-Kyung turns Ramin while she is dying, granting her more than a century of life by her introduction and the strength, speed, senses, and resilience of a Vampire. Ramin can survive impacts and wounds fatal to ordinary people and recover from severe damage, but regeneration is neither instant nor free. Hunger and anemia weaken her together, major healing requires blood, and institutional blood rations remain necessary even in the modern Empire. (Chapters 177–190) (Chapters 239–247)

Sunlight is another limitation, although Ramin says she is only somewhat more vulnerable than a Frogman without protective ointment rather than prone to immediate burning. Her durability also does not equal apostolic immortality: Aruega's superior strength overwhelms her, and accumulated damage impairs her movement and fighting ability. Vampirism gives her time and survivability, not immunity to dismemberment, restraint, divine power, or starvation. (Chapter 184) (Chapters 188–190) (Chapters 239–247)

Electricity

Pzzt manifests during Ramin’s fight with Mahim, judges that she may still create valuable possibilities, and confirms that Night Sky has chosen her. The current first manifests from her hand and enters the target through contact. By overwhelming the body's minute electrical nerve signals, it causes involuntary contraction and stiffness and can stop breathing and the heart, as demonstrated against Mahim. A divinely enhanced target may resist long enough to require a physical finishing blow. (Chapters 184–185)

Ramin later incorporates electricity into close combat, using it to supplement strength she lacks against larger or apostolic opponents. The power works best when her timing and swordsmanship create a chance to make contact; it does not let her match Aruega's raw force or remove her dependence on blood and physical recovery. The corpus establishes continued access during the continental war but does not give a numerical maximum range, charge, or later transformation. (Chapter 193) (Chapter 197) (Chapters 239–242) (Chapter 252)

Swordsmanship and combat perception

Ramin learns swordsmanship and survival from Owen and develops the discipline over a long life. She reads habits, exposed posture, and muscle movement to predict attacks; uses swords, daggers, guns, and improvised weapons; and demonstrates enough precision to cut a grenade fuse with a thrown dagger. During Hwee-Kyung's rescue, her Swordsmanship reaches level five, a degree of mastery attained by very few practitioners. (Chapter 178) (Chapters 184–185) (Chapter 197) (Chapter 239) (Chapter 256)

Her perception is predictive rather than invulnerable foresight. Faster and stronger enemies can still hit her, unfamiliar divine gifts can upset her reading, and serious injuries reduce what her body can execute even when she recognizes the correct response. Ramin compensates by choosing objectives she can achieve—buying time, redirecting a guardian, sabotaging machinery, or protecting others—rather than treating every encounter as a duel she must personally win. (Chapters 184–185) (Chapters 237–247)

Intelligence and spacecraft operations

Ramin's long experience, broad formal study, intelligence training, and crisis record make her an investigator and commander as well as a fighter. She can build cover stories, assess conspiracies, use institutional contacts, and coordinate teams under attack. As an astronaut she handles docking, flight decisions, mission leadership, and low-gravity fieldwork, though automated systems, ground control, priests, engineers, and fellow astronauts remain essential to every launch. (Chapters 216–217) (Chapters 258–265) (Chapters 267–282) (Chapters 297–298)

Power progression

Relationships

• Hwee-Kyung: Ramin's maker, teacher, and painfully complicated parental figure. Ramin later chooses to save her, helping transform coercive origins into a relationship capable of reconciliation.
• Gorgota Falu: Her original state supervisor and later Intelligence Agency partner. Gorgota monitors her but also trusts, protects, and repeatedly fights beside her.
• Owen: Ramin's swordsmanship and survival teacher. She trusts him to handle threats she cannot watch and carries his practical lessons into intelligence work and war.
• Ion Iolkaf: An astronomer whom Ramin protects and encourages. Their cooperation turns an ignored theory into the scientific basis for the moon-facing plan.
• Juran: Hwee-Kyung's descendant and Ramin's younger relative by blood. Their shared search teaches Ramin to treat family as a relationship that can be accepted rather than merely inherited.
• Lakrak: A legendary apostle whom Ramin first knows through stories and later supports as captain during the assault on Loom.
• Choi Sung-Woon: The Night Sky Ramin follows without assuming infallibility. His choices shape her missions, while her final appeal to the restored gods acts without direct knowledge of his plan.

Items

No individually notable item ownership or custody is established for Ramin in the supplied corpus.