Biography

Riven Haldane grew up staring at the wall-lines like they were horizons, listening to adults argue about how long stone can outlast hunger. When the outer districts began to vanish overnight—whole streets crushed, whole families erased—Riven volunteered for the scouts as soon as he was old enough to sign his name. He became famous for surviving conditions that should have ripped cables apart: sleet storms, ashfall winds, and the brutal updrafts created by giant bodies moving through narrow streets. Riven treats flight like a language—he reads air pressure the way others read maps, and he keeps his fear in the same pocket as his spare line. As an opponent, he’s hard to pin down. He attacks from impossible angles, then vanishes upward into steam and cloud, forcing you to fight the battlefield as much as the man.

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