Rafian had been a Walker for eleven years. The Order of the Unbound had recruited him from a dying coastal town when he was nineteen, after he'd accidentally stepped through Edge 3 without knowing what it was. Most people who stumbled into an edge never came back. Rafian had come back carrying flowers that didn't exist in his world.
Rafian (played by Reza Rahadian) acts as a catalyst for the protagonist, Ada, helping her navigate her fear of love through a series of "what if" scenarios. rafian at the edge 51
Edge 51 was not the deepest point. It was the shallowest. The Spiral Descent was not a city—it was a cage. And every core he’d ever retrieved had been a piece of the prisoner’s own memory, stolen and repurposed to power the illusion that kept him asleep at the bottom of the trench. Rafian had been a Walker for eleven years