Reth Linn

Reth Linn is a figure of religious authority on Ignis, the world of Gaal Dornick's youth, speaking with the certainty of someone who believes she serves a higher truth. She views mentalic gifts as heresy, and treats those who have them — including Gaal's own family — as a danger to be judged and corrected rather than understood.

Chipo Chung plays conviction rather than cruelty, which is what makes Reth Linn unsettling: she never seems to doubt herself. The writing gives her scripture instead of menace, and Chung delivers it with a stillness that feels more frightening than shouting would, because it suggests an entire society behind her certainty.