Syphax

Syphax, a character in the A Courtesan of Rome book, was your bodyguard and one of your love interests. He is first seen in Chapter 1.

Personality
Syphax is gentle and patient, though when someone threatens his ward, he subdues him without hesitation. Syphax is extremely loyal, obedient and and faithful.

In premium choices, we can get to know his past. Being a strong and healthy young boy, he used to guard caravans, then send most of the money to his parents, and for some time was the main supporter of his family. In Chapter 1, he suggests the Main Character to pray for their families safety or memory. He cares for his family, although he wouldn't want to return to Numidia.

Main Character
Syphax is the Main Character's bodyguard and one of her love interests. Even as just a friend, he is devoted enough to her to take the blame for murder in her place. He tells her that he will not stand in her way when she has to do what must be done. In Chapter 17, he tells Victus that if one of them must die in the arena, he wants it to be himself as he was willing to die for Arin before and would rather die than have her hate him for killing her father. Even if Main Character does not pursue him romantically, he tells Victus that he loves her. In Chapter 18, she is confronted with the choice of trying to free either Syphax or Victus. If she chooses to free Syphax and succeeds with the help of her reputation, he will be freed immediately. They can go swimming together in a premium scene of the same chapter.

Lena
Lena is his boss. Their relation is based on mutual respect and trust. When Syphax is imprisoned, Lena is truly pained with loss of one of her best subordinates. She and Main Character try to make a plan to save him.

Xanthe
Syphax was once Xanthe's bodyguard, and she gave him hard time with her whims and arrogance. He didn't like the way she used to treat her patrons, as if they were tools. According to him, Xanthe was always her own worst enemy.

Trivia

 * He is shown on the cover of A Courtesan of Rome.
 * In a premium choice in Chapter 1, Syphax revealed that he is from Numidia.
 * If you didn't select the premium choice, Marc Antony confirms that Syphax is Numidian at the end of Chapter 7.
 * He takes the fall for the Main Character when she kills Tribune Rufus.