Director Byorn

"Be careful you don't underestimate Byorn, he's the strongest sorcerer in the Guild, he's from Ysyr."

"What's his angle?"

"Four arms? A pair of horns? Who knows, but he's trouble."
— Factor Blue Eyes telling Assistant-Factor Nyeah about Byorn, Nexus, 768AoS.

"How the mighty have fallen. Byorn used to be the most promising of all the Factors, now he stares at nothing for hours, and gibbers."

"How is he still a Factor?"

"His majordomo and amanuensis, Shines with the Glory of an Unheralded Gleam, as well as his late bodyguard Dark Bonbon of Perdition, champion of Shines-in-Numbers, were considered the powers behind the throne. There's also a rumoured Raksha involved, someone called Shines-in-Numbers"

— Note passed to Stelsor by Whispered Nothings, Shining Sail Treaty negotiations, 769AoS.

"Who is that?"

"That's a mortal, a foolish, luscious mortal..."

"Calm yourself, Miribadi, and direct him to the labyrinth. He's a foolish, foolish mortal sorcerer. He will learn not to trifle with things beyond his understanding."
— Miribadi's diary, 769AoS.

"And so we came to find a man washed ashore on Nighthammer Pool dock, his fine clothing had been rent, his eyes were vacant, and he was ..." The bodies of the night watch crew who had started to write this were found stacked, all sixteen of them. A token drop of black sunshine had been daubed over every left eye, as is now the custom of Guild Enforcers. The page had been rent, but this text had been written on the page so deeply, the page beneath had a record of it.
— Nexus Dock Watch Log, 20 Ascending Air, 769AoS

Byorn, Director Arcane of the Guild in Nexus.