Character Archive · Sovereign
Temperance
Sovereign of the Knights Temper
- Role: Sovereign of the Knights Temper
- Family: younger sister of Palad and Nemes
- Stone: starstone
- Historic position: neutral third branch between Paladin and Nemesis
The Third Branch
Temperance stands outside the traditional white-and-black rivalry. Her followers, the Knights Temper, are associated with neutrality and a third inheritance represented by the starstone rather than Palad’s sunstone or Nemes’s moonstone.
Power Saved While Others Fought
For generations, Palad and Nemes spend their inherited strength sustaining an endless conflict. Temperance’s branch does not drain its stone in the same way. By the time the Corridor turns gray, that restraint has created a dramatic imbalance: the starstone faction possesses more usable power than both older branches combined.
Deep Canon · From Neutrality to Crisis
The Gray Knight serves as Temperance’s right-hand man and channels much of the starstone’s strength into the Corridor itself. Later revelations show that Temperance’s isolation, imprisonment, and attempt to reassert control are bound to the ancient family tragedy that divided the three siblings in the first place.
Her story ultimately complicates the idea that neutrality is automatically safe or virtuous. Power withheld from one conflict can still become dangerous when fear, grief, or control reshape its purpose.
Palad · Nemes · The Gray Knight · Arlenen