Alain Silverbranch was a roguish, womanizing asshole who was one of the Silverbranch Brothers. His specialties were daggers, lockpicking, cryptography, and avoiding paternity suits. People really liked him for some reason, though. He had friends in high places and low. Leon Alcibiates actually fell in love with him, because...Leon's not really smart about love. One person who didn't like Alain was Queen Adevia of Alenia, who had him killed. This made a lot of people mad and caused Leon to use bad words.