Gailen Skjelvik-Varys's Links
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.
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.