Vex Darkflame: Thalia’s lifelong friend and second-in-command. A black-scaled dragonborn sorceress with a bright, excitable personality, Vex is the Order’s arcane expert and morale booster. She and Thalia are inseparable, a classic good-cop, bad-cop pair whose differing temperaments balance one another perfectly. Where Thalia leads through duty, Vex leads through heart.