Rise of Maltraxis · Known record
Discipline is the answer. She is not interested in hearing the question twice.
The known record
Svetlana is a dark-skinned elf in practical armor, rigid in posture and nearly allergic to excuses. Maltraxis placed the new representatives under her command because strength alone did not make them Kingsguard. She taught them cooperation with a lethal obstacle course and obedience with starving prisoners. The first lesson produced creativity. The second produced Wilfred’s corpse.
Habits & methods
Known capabilities
What people remember
Drawn from the surviving campaign record, world history, and established Sunspire canon.
Ran the Gauntlet and criticized the recruits for solving teamwork through magical shortcuts and sabotage.
Ordered the prisoners executed, then made their torture the recruits’ responsibility when some refused.
Explained that Eastmarch was not truly Maltraxis’s until the surviving royal line submitted.
Entered the quarters to find magical blindness, ball bearings, a skunk stench, two banishments, and Hamdik transformed into a giraffe.
People in their orbit
The sovereign whose will she trains others to obey and whose bargain she understands better than most.
A capable recruit whose refusal became the example she warned the others not to follow.
Her students, weapons, and recurring argument against allowing powerful adults unsupervised free time.
Where the record stands
At Maltraxis’s side in Sunspire. Her latest known strategic challenge is restoring dignity to a unit that recently lost it beneath a giraffe.
Read the chronicles