Elder Xubo

Elder Xubo expects to name one successor until Voland shows him both Stryche and Marchosias. He values Stryche’s restraint as much as Marchosias’s ferocity and means to ask Voland how to change the ritual so the clan can keep both. His death and the theft of Voland’s skull leave Stryche trying to save the village with what Xubo taught him.

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