Refton Pike is the steely architect behind the velvet trappings of the Songborne Empire. A man of lean build, Pike is rarely seen without his golden robes, a subtle reminder that power, in Songborne, flows as much through ink and decree as through sword and blood. His silvered hair and unfaltering gaze lend him the air of a marble statue—still, cold, and immovable.
Once a scholar of statecraft at the Ivory Lyceum, Pike rose not through bloodlines or battlefield glory but through his razor wit and unshakeable grasp of imperial law. Appointed Imperial Chancellor by Empress Halixia the Seventh during her famed Twilight Reforms, he quickly became indispensable—part magistrate, part minister, part shadow to the throne.