Rushton Seraphim

Profile
Name: Ruston Seraphim

Age: Around 19 in Obernewtyn

Appearance: Tall, dark-haired and has jade-green eyes.

Abilities
Rushton has the unique ability to host a mind merge. A mind merge allows several other minds to all combine together inside of his mind. In Ashling, it is explained that he has the largest capacity for holding mental energy, but because his Talents are latent. The only way that Rushton's talents can be used is as a focusing agent with someone using coercive abilities to tap into his mind. Rushton's powers being latent means he has no conscious access to the powers. Rushton is disappointed that he cannot use his abilities.

Mind meld

Obernewtyn
Rushton is first mentioned by Enoch, the coachman while delivering Elspeth to Obernewtyn.

Elspeth sees Rushton again only a few days later. Elspeth is in a hallway comforting a terrified Selmar when Rushton appears and calms her and gently raises her to her feet. He then dismisses Elspeth and gives her directions to Ariel whom she was previously trying to find.

After this meeting Elspeth is moved from her work in the kitchens to the farms where she is to assist Rushton on the farms, to prepare for winter. Rushton discovers that Elspeth is good at working with animals and so assigns her to various tasks involving them.

Rushton later acts as an anchor point for a group of misfits to save Elspeth from the beforetime weaponmachine, although he does not know who it is he is saving.

In the end of Obernewtyn Elspeth's escape attempt is aided by Rushton and Elspeth begins to like him, leading her to save him. Rushton later turns out to be the true inheritor of Obernewtyn and starts the process of making it a refuge for misfits.

The Farseekers
In The Farseekers Rushton, as the legal owner of Obernewtyn (as he is the son of Michael Seraphim and Marisa Seraphim), has transformed it into a haven for misfits and has organised guilds consisting of misfits of each power while he himself is the overseer of Obernewtyn. Rushton, upon returning from a journey, calls a guilmerge. Rushton proposes a safehouse be set up in Sutrium.

Ashling
In Ashling, Rushton is there when Elspeth awakes after her injury in Guanette. Elspeth senses that Rushton has some feelings for her at this point but he is not aware of them, and that she has no desire to pursue him. He is also present on the trip to the Reichler Clinic.

Rushton ensures that Elspeth has a second companion to travel with her to Sutrium. He visits Elspeth hours before she leaves at dawn when it is clear that he has slept poorly. He asks her to make contact with the rebels to see if they have accepted the offer to form an alliance,

The Keeping Place
Rushton is captured when returning from a meeting with the rebels in Sutrium. Obernewtyn then receives a letter threatening Rushton's life if they do not join the rebellion. They later find Rushton unconcious in an abandoned Herder cloister in Sutrium. Elspeth must save Rushton from Dragons mind.

Notable Quotes
'I could see that he was not a full-grown man at all but a well built youth of about nineteen." Elspeth pg. 85 Obernewtyn