Eshevis Tethimar

Son and heir of the Duke Tethimel; suitor for the hand of Vedero Drazhin; conspirator in the sabotage of the Wisdom of Choharo; attempts to murder Maia Drazhar on Winternight.

A tall, broad-shouldered man with very dark blue eyes; extremely good-looking, and knows it; has a beautifully modulated baritone voice. He is thirty, has "distinguished himself in the border wars with the northern barbarians ten years ago," and is known as "an avid sportsman and something of a political malcontent."