The Eating Woods · Character
Riftyn
Also known as Uncle Riftyn, Step-uncle
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 4
Riftyn is seized for banishment alongside Aleysia in The Eating Woods (Book 1).
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Everything after it stays hidden.
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 4
- Books
- 2
Riftyn first appears as a handsome, sandy-haired man with a lopsided grin and dimple, dressed alternately in tailored or work clothes, whose face is later flayed to expose muscle and tendons. Across the two books he shifts from a living lover and uncle entangled in forbidden romance and family secrets to a haunting, mutilated figure whose death is recalled in gruesome detail. His relationships with Aleysia and Maevyth evolve from clandestine intimacy and uneasy alliance to traumatic memory and lingering guilt. By the second book his physical ruin and the consequences of his affair with Aleysia have become central to the surviving characters’ psychological scars.
Description
A man with sandy brown hair, bright blue eyes, and a lopsided grin that reveals a dimple in his cheek, wearing a jacket whose cuffs he adjusts. A man with sandy brown hair, bright blue eyes, a lopsided grin, and a dimple in his cheek. His face is flayed, with exposed muscle and tendons. He wears a jacket or tailored clothing.
Story so far
BOOK 1Anathema
- Secretly carries on a sexual relationship with his step-niece Aleysia, who becomes pregnant with his child.
- Is seized for banishment alongside Aleysia after the pregnancy is discovered.
- Helps restrain his other niece Maevyth after Aleysia is taken and strikes her.
- Later accompanies Maevyth into the woods and attempts to help her escape.
- His face is flayed, exposing muscle and tendons.
BOOK 2Eldritch
- Maevyth recalls watching a beast tear the skin from his bones.
- Aleysia remembers that Riftyn taught her to use a knife.
- Aleysia keeps the knowledge of her pregnancy by Riftyn from her father.
Key events
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