Raife Highmore

Raife Highmore, a character in The Elementalists series, is a criminal who experiments on children, specifically twins. He is first mentioned in Book 1, Chapter 4, in the book Magickal Crimes of the Twenty-First Century from the library in Penderghast College of Elemental Magicks. He is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 10 and Your Character is able to identify him if you read the aforementioned book.

Appearance
He has red eyes rimmed with dark circles, long white hair and a bushy, long beard as well. He appears to be wearing a red cape with some gold in it that according to Your Character In Book 1, Chapter 15 is connected with an amulet made up of three different pieces. These consist of a sun piece, a moon piece, and then some kind of star-like shape between them. His smile is described in Book 1, Chapter 11 as being threatening and slightly mad. If you have the sword from the mirror dimension, it is mentioned in Book 1, Chapter 17, that he wears a pair of gauntlets. In Book 1, Chapter 4, Your character describes his physical appearance to that of a monster.

Personality
Your character learns from Beckett Harrington that a while back, Raife went kind of crazy, experimenting on children and all kinds of horrible stuff. The book says that Highmore's actions during the time are considered the main catalyst for the banning of Blood magick in the Americas. It continues onto saying that, his reign of terror created an international panic, though no crimes outside of the United States were ever found to have been his doing. To this day, no one has ever discovered the reason behind Highmore's killing spree... While a small few believe Highmore was chasing the secret to the Refractionary energy of old Attuned lore. He was also known as The Dread. For all the years he was pursued, he only killed kids. Nowadays, he has been used as a boogeyman of sort to scare kids into eating their peas and behave if they don't want The Dread to come for them. The last page Your Character reads states that there on the page is a photo of a man in his mid-fifties, with a wild bushy beard and murderous eyes rimmed with dark circles. It is description that allows Your Character to identifying him in the Mirror Dimension in his first physical appearance in Book 1, Chapter 10.

A premium scene in Book 1, Chapter 11 shows that he is working on a device that will help him achieve his goals. It is also mentioned by Atlas that during his crime spree, all of his victims were not just kids, but more specifically hundreds of twins. All in search for Your Character and Atlas; not resting until both of you were dead.

In Book 1, Chapter 17, it is revealed that he wants to harness all of the Elements to become even more powerful, which is why he kidnapped twins. He decided to focus on your character and Atlas due to their attunements to the Sun and the Moon and their refractionary meaning. In a premium scene in Book 1, Chapter 18, it is revealed that he kidnapped someone very close to Dean Goeffe, implied to be her daughter.

In Book 2, Chapter 10, it is revealed that some of his experiments were meant to bring people back from the dead, despite resurrection magick being illegal.

Book 1

 * Chapter 4: Judgement Day (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: Smoke and Mirrors
 * Chapter 17: The Dread
 * Chapter 18: Blood Moon

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: New Dawn
 * Chapter 9: Face to Face (Illusion)
 * Chapter 10: Moving Forward (Offscreen; Physical Appearance Determinant)

Your Character
Raife originally sends several shadow monsters after you in an attempt to kill you. In Book 1, Chapter 17, they engage in a battle against each other that can potentially end with either of them severely injured. In Book 1, Chapter 18, he tells you before his death that your encounter with him is only the beginning and that others will come after you.

Atlas
In Book 1, Chapter 11, Atlas states that Raife has been trying to catch her/him for years. If Your Character plays as Atlas, when describing Raife's sinister smile, it is said that it makes a shiver run down his spine.

Trivia

 * He bears a resemblance to infamous Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man Rasputin who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
 * He also seems to be inspired by Lord Voldemort, the big bad in the Harry Potter film and book series.
 * The name Raife may be a pun on the fact that Voldemort was played by Ralph Fiennes.
 * His crimes include mass murder, practising Blood Magick, theft, kidnapping and blackmail.
 * In Book 1, Chapter 18, his essence becomes a potential item for Your desk. If you decide not to keep his essence, Atlas destroys it.
 * If you collected it, you end up destroying it in Book 2, Chapter 10. If you didn't collect it, it's restored and destroyed again in the same chapter.