Holland

Holland has had a terrible life.

His brother tried to kill him when he was nine, so he killed his brother in self defense. His girlfriend tried to kill him when he was eighteen, so he killed her in self defense, and then many times after that he started bleeding his wrists into a stream into the woods because he wanted to revive his home. Because that makes all the sense.

One day, while Holland is bleeding into the river, Ros Vortalis pops up, and asks him to help him take the throne. Holland says yes, only as long as he doesn't have to be king. Vortalis agrees, and Holland ends up being his knight. They hold the throne for a couple of years, during which fourteen year old Kell shows up once, but then the Danes (AKA Dickheads) show up and put a shattered piece of cursed metal in Vortalis' cigar. His insides are shredded to pieces and he dies in Holland's arms despite the Antari's best efforts.

Holland is then bound by Athos Dane as a magical slave for seven years. After seven years of constant torture, being forced to spy on and kill people, and a bunch of other bullshit, all he wants is to kill them slowly. Kell kills him and the Danes, and Holland (not completely dead as previously suspected) maybe makes some bad decisions and gets himself possessed by Osaron so that he can revive his world. In order to rectify his mistake, he sacrifices himself and loses all of his magic. He knows he's dying, so he bugs the shit out of Kell until the ginger takes him home, where he dies by himself in the woods.