A mad and dangerous liveship, blinded and beached, whose reputation for killing his crews has made him an outcast among the Bingtown Traders. Paragon's madness conceals a history of genuine trauma, and his arc across the Liveship Traders Trilogy and the Rain Wild Chronicles is one of the most affecting in the sequence - a being who has survived the worst that could be done to him and must decide what he wants to become. His relationship with the Ludluck family and the truth of his origins are central to understanding him.