Fadren Skjelvik-Varys's Links
According to his parents, Rydrith is a Tamrielic hero and a saint within their House. According to Fadren's personal experience with the mer's spirit, he's also annoying, hard to understand, arguably racist, and still hasn't gotten over the fall of the Tribunal despite having centuries to come to terms with it. Now and then he does give good advice, even if he obscures them in riddles for no good reason. And despite all the cultural barriers, there are some things about being a Prisoner that only others with the same fate would understand.
A staunch traditionalist in life, he's not exactly elated about the westernization of his House. Fadren talks and acts like a Nord, mashed their House name together with a Nordic one, and doesn't even put that amalgamation before his given name. Were he still alive, he might warm up to these changes, or at least accept them given Vvardenfell's uninhabitability. But spirits are slow to change. In the end, a Skjelvik-Varys is still a Varys, and as an ancestor spirit it's Rydrith's job to guide all members of his House, no matter how funny they sound to him.
With his understanding of magic and the wealth of his House, it would be a fairly trivial matter to extend his husband's life by a century or two. Gail wouldn't have wanted that, though. In his youth, Fadren simply couldn't understand the human perspective on death, how anyone could be happy with less than a century to live. Passing a hundred years old himself, sometimes he wonders if humans are the lucky ones after all. Sometimes still, he thinks that Gail's ability to make peace with such things so easily was one of the reasons he fell in love in the first place.
Gail is intelligent, a skilled alchemist. He's also much like a skittish horse in that he doesn't really understand how strong he is and may accidentally trample someone who startles him. In his own opinion, he worries too much, speaks before he thinks, and has been known to cry because he accidentally killed a caterpillar. All in all, he has no idea why Fadren agreed to marry him. Luckily, Fadren pretty much felt the same way about himself. They're a well-fitting pair of disasters.