Zaheer
The Veritas
“Sometimes the most good you can do is knowing when to do nothing at all.”
Known in Vryehelm by a humbler name, Zaheer was a young man of political promise with a dying mother and a friend in the governor's house, on whose hand the Veritas then rested. The ring is his now, and with a single touch he can enter a mind, rebuild its worst memory and hold its owner there for as long as he wishes. Zaheer does not seek revenge but understanding, and he has never raised his voice, for patience is the only weapon he has ever needed.
Bonds
- Mika Abner The Haunted Protector
- Amicia Adamaris The Voice of Vryehelm
- Jackie The Second Daughter
The Chronicle
The Humbler Name
Before he was the Veritas he lived quietly in the free south, caring for a mother whose illness he could not afford to treat. He meant to enter politics and build a Frysia in which no one would suffer as she had. The governor's daughter believed in him, and on her right hand she wore the Veritas.
The Ring
The Veritas draws memories out, plants new ones and alters those already held. It works only by touch, it falters against strong minds and recent hours, and it wears down the one who bears it. In Vryehelm they say the ring does not steal memories but borrows them, and that it never gives them back the same.
The Lesson
Those he has broken call him a monster. Zaheer calls himself a teacher. He builds a room from the worst day of a life and makes its owner live that day again through other eyes, counting each return aloud. He has said that he would sooner hold a man there forever than release him without understanding.
He spent eleven years building a world where no one would be hurt as his mother was. Then he put on the ring.
Appears In
- Day Zero As The Veritas