Marcel

"Marcel tilted his head straight up to the open window. He could see nothing but gray, striated clouds beyond the glassless opening. How long has it been, he wondered, since last I laid eyes on the outside?" "—The Sword and Its Servant"

The strongest of the escaped prisoners, Marcel was always the voice of doubt and reason among Einsa's group.

Biography
Marcel was the only prisoner in the Einsa's cell that did not know how he arrived in the Grauwelt. He said that the last thing he remembered is that he had fallen asleep on his sofa back home; then he woke up to being captured by the Löwa.

Marcel's parents had separated sometime before his capture. Marcel blamed himself for their separation and made a vow to return to them and mend his broken family.

Marcel did not make it out of the Kaltstein ; he was recaptured by Ulf after Wasleol tricked him into revealing where the boy's companions had fled to.

Personality and traits
Marcel is mean-spirited and tough. On several occasions he bordered on recklessness to prove his strength above his companions. His desire to go his own way ended up being his downfall, as he refused to submit to the consensus of the escape party and instead went his own way (to be subsequently recaptured).

Marcel had a particular animosity toward Andreas and Tobias.