Gregor Brante

The Patriarch of House Brante at the beginning of the story. Father of Robert Brante.

Summary
A prideful and unpleasant man who is obsessed with enhancing his family's rank and prestige among the other nobility. He greatly desire for his name to be written in the Blue Books so his family will permanently be nobles. In his drive to reach his goal, he clashes constantly with family and vehemently abuse them.

Most of the family's conflict in the story were seeded by him. Gregor influenced Stephan into sharing his goal, and constantly caused tension by verbally opposing Robert and Lydia's marriage. He demeans Gloria and Nathan, the former for her commoner status and the latter for being weak. His relationship with Sir Brante is tense. Gregor can either hate Sir Brante for his commoner status or grudgingly develops respect for his grandson should he prove himself worthy to being a noble.

He suffered an unpreventable Truth Death by either burning himself to death or getting a heart attack when prevented from the act. Yet his death and influence continues to loom over his descendants for the rest of the story.