Redin BR Oser

Redin BR Oser is a red-skinned Troll prince of Asbestos who rises from neglected royal son to king and apostle of the Binding God. His devotion is deliberately engineered through bereavement, revelation, and the Empty Sky ordeal, but his discipline eventually survives both defeat and death. Resurrected as the Enemy Knight, he becomes a charging spearhead for the united Pantheon rather than the rival kingdom he first served.

Biography

The discarded prince and the Empty Sky

Redin is King Delmardin’s twenty-first child, born to a mistress with no political support. Because his red skin marks him as a supposedly frail “Withered One,” he grows up outside the palace despite possessing an unusually balanced combination of strength, intelligence, and sociability. Wisdom decides that the disregarded prince has the greatest room to rise and arranges the murder of Redin’s mother, planting royal evidence that converts Redin’s contentment into revenge. Further manipulation brings him into the palace, exposes the violence among his brothers, and redirects his grievance toward Delmardin, whom Redin begins serving while waiting for divine permission to remove him. (Chapters 112–113)

While handling Delmardin’s covert business in Golden Eye, Redin is sent as the king’s representative to Mangul’s Empty Sky Festival. He reluctantly accepts what he believes is a short ceremonial imitation of the local priesthood’s trial, only to awaken alone in a maze with a pickaxe and a Forget-Me-Bloom. The herb nourishes him while erasing direction and distorting touch; exhausted, terrified, and unable to know whether his labor leads toward freedom or death, he finally follows the voice of Ool. Emerging into daylight convinces him that even his emotions and choices have been woven by divine will, and he accepts fusion into an apostle. (Chapters 114–115)

King, apostle, and rival to Lakrak

Redin returns north, kills his father, and crushes the rebellion that follows the succession. The violence makes him king, high priest, and the public focus of Asbestos’s faith, although his destroyed palace and absolute obedience make him appear deranged to outsiders. Wisdom and Jang-Wan intend his growing prestige to produce an apostle capable of containing Lakrak. Redin accepts that purpose without protest: the abandoned son who once wanted no throne now treats kingship, worship, and war as components of a single command. (Chapters 116–138)

Against Lakrak, Redin leads mounted Holy Knights in an apostle-killing phalanx and uses the “power of order” supplied through Ool. The effect can unravel complex objects and living tissue, while repeated contact accumulates damage that even Lakrak cannot entirely suppress. Redin correctly reads several tactical features of the duel and leaves Lakrak’s arm grievously wounded, but Lakrak chooses to endure the encirclement and kill the formation from within. Redin refuses to flee when the battle turns, dies with Lakrak’s spear through his body, and earns his opponent’s judgment that he was an outstanding warrior. His discipline proves genuine, but his last command leaves no room for self-preservation. (Chapters 139–142)

Resurrection and the Enemy Knight

Long after Asbestos has joined the Black Scale Empire, Choi Sung-Woon proposes Redin’s resurrection. Wisdom initially objects because reviving a defeated apostle costs enormous Faith and usually returns diminished prestige, but Redin remains honored in his former homeland; bringing him back can reconcile those believers with the Empire. Wisdom admits that avoiding Redin had been a refusal to face his own strategic failure and calls him his best knight. Redin answers by promising to prove that judgment, then charges with the resurrected Red Knights as the army’s linchpin. Former enemy and former rival now fight on the same side. (Chapter 228)

Redin’s second career preserves his defining commitment while placing it inside a broader command structure. He fights the Union Kingdom, damages Hegemonia’s golden chariots, and charges her directly; she cuts him down and takes an arm, but his knights extract him, while the opening he creates lets Mazdari and Lakrak continue the attack. He later holds the front against Demons as one of the Pantheon’s apostles. Resurrection does not make him invulnerable or erase his earlier defeat. It instead turns the reputation of a fallen enemy into an imperial doctrine of advance under pressure. (Chapters 251–308)

Appearance and personality

Redin is a Troll with red rather than the species’ usual gray-green skin. As a “Withered One,” he is prejudged as weak and short-lived, even though his actual physical ability is exceptional. He later appears as a king and mounted warrior, commanding Holy Knights with a spear. His visible mutation, once a reason to exclude him from the palace, becomes inseparable from the remembered image of the Red Knights. (Chapters 113–141)

He is intelligent, socially capable, proud of being a Troll, and normally restrained. Redin accepts thankless work, expects subordinates who labor hard to rest, and initially has little interest in ceremony or foreign culture. The Empty Sky ordeal transforms that practical self-command into severe fatalism: once convinced that divine will underlies all action, he follows orders past the point where retreat would be rational. After resurrection he remains devoted, but Wisdom’s apology reframes that loyalty as a relationship between god and knight rather than proof that Redin alone was a mistake. (Chapters 113–228)

Powers and abilities

Redin’s natural strengths are unusually balanced. Strength, Intelligence, and Sociability all rank highly, allowing him to act as covert royal agent, political usurper, battlefield commander, and frontline warrior. He can endure sustained excavation, overpower rebels, direct mounted formations, and fight an apostle at close range. These talents are exceptional but mortal: exhaustion nearly kills him underground, and Lakrak remains the superior individual combatant. (Chapters 113–141)

As Wisdom’s apostle, Redin generates and carries religious prestige while accessing divine effects. Ool, a snake-like creation jointly made by Wisdom and Jang-Wan, transfers the Binding God’s effect and the Overflowing God’s Faith to him. Redin’s “power of order” treats constructed things and living bodies as interwoven structures: he can unweave simple objects by touch and cause living tissue to come apart, while repeated effects build into a delayed wound. The power is less effective against a replaceable swarm, depends on Ool’s continued support, and does not guarantee victory against a stronger apostle. (Chapters 139–141)

Redin’s Holy Knight phalanx is designed to trap apostles, combining disciplined formation, mounted archery, and divine pressure. It prevents Lakrak from escaping without severe injury, but the formation can still be destroyed member by member. Redin’s greatest limitation is therefore behavioral as well as mechanical: his unwavering adherence to the last divine command keeps him fighting when independent judgment might have preserved him. Resurrection restores him at great Faith cost, while lost honor can weaken a returned apostle; the support of Asbestos’s believers helps counter that reputational loss but does not remove physical danger. (Chapters 141–251)

Power progression

Relationships

• Wisdom: Wisdom engineers Redin’s grief, rise, faith, and first death as part of a Manual Play strategy. After years of avoidance, he admits that the failure was his own and recognizes Redin as his best knight, giving their renewed bond a measure of accountability.
• Jang-Wan: Jang-Wan sacrifices progression resources to help make Redin an apostle and supplies Faith through Ool. Her cooperation with Wisdom makes Redin a weapon jointly sustained by two allied gods.
• Lakrak: Redin is raised to stop Lakrak and dies in their duel after inflicting a serious wound. Lakrak honors him as an outstanding warrior and later greets the resurrected Redin as a fellow apostle.
• Choi Sung-Woon: Sung-Woon defeats the strategy built around Redin, then later argues for his resurrection because the former enemy can bind Asbestos’s memory to the united Empire.
• Mazdari: Redin and Mazdari fill complementary apostolic roles after the resurrection: Redin anchors the army through direct charges, while Mazdari creates variables and exploits the openings he makes.
• Hegemonia: Redin’s direct assault damages her chariot screen but costs him an arm. Even unsuccessful, the charge creates the brief opportunity his allies need to attack.

Items

• Forget-Me-Bloom: Mangul’s disorienting, nourishing herb traps Redin between starvation and deeper sensory distortion during the Empty Sky ordeal. His dependence on it helps break his confidence in his own perception and prepares his acceptance of Ool’s guidance.