Welcome back, gang. In my eyes the most challenging character to write is one who doesn't talk thus Rotherham doesn't talk. He's meant to be the opposite of other evabon like Terag who simply can't stop talking. So Rotherham won't speak unless I think he has to, keep him silent for now. Enjoy.
Flaws
Panthro sat outside of the tomb. He was just trying to make sense of all the paintings on the tomb walls. He could barely tell who was suppose to be who and didn't get that far due to frustration of not being able to tell which was Nomit and what was going on.
Rotherham watched Panthro. His thoughts weren't about Nomit about Bourchier, his father. The pressure was harder than some could realize. Bourchier just wasn't another tomb guardian he was Rotherham's father. How could everyone expect him to be like his own father? It was written that most sons eventually became their fathers, that the story of life was a generational one.
Rotherham didn't want to become his father. He wanted to be his own person. He didn't want to be anyone but himself.
He then remembered something Montmarte had once said. Montmarte was a rival of Terag whom was often painted in a negative light by Terag just so the impressive looking blabbermouth of a warrior would look more heroic compared to the pacifistic philosopher that was Montmarte.
Montmarte had once said that a person makes their life have meaning not who their parent is.
That saying caused Terag to become angry and persuade Autolycus to cast out Montmarte. The saying went against Autolycus' belief that someone should become their parent in order to keep the parent's presence around. The reason Autolycus wanted a son was more to do with him wanting his presence to still be in the valley of the tombs after his death. So Autolycus cast out Montmarte and branded him with a mark that would let all evabon know that Montmarte was to forever be an outcast, unable to join any evabon clan: it was the mark of eternal loneliness.
All that thinking made Rotherham wonder how Autolycus still had everyone's support. Autolycus was impossibly flawed. He also had unbelievable expectations of people, trying to make the younger generations in his image. Rotherham was perhaps one of the few who did not end up becoming like Autolycus because he had taken note of the prominent of Autolycus' flaws. The most prominent of his flaws was his prejudiced nature towards women, believing they are only good for raising children, and towards grey skins simply because he considered them to be unnatural. Rotherham had also noticed that when at his worst, Autolycus could be a down right egotist only causing him to wonder how Autolycus ever got the support of everyone to become leader.