What is the importance of the Seven Deadly Sins in the novel, The Gilded Wolves?

The Seven Deadly Sins are represented both in Séverin’s foster fathers and nearly every character in the book. Throughout the novel, each of the sins are represented in the characters themselves and the wishes of the Order of Babel. Nearly every high class person in this novel highlights at least one of these traits. Séverin shows traits of greed and lust. Hypnos represents gluttony, while Roux-Joubert is wrath. This shows how everyone is susceptible to terrible sins, and the truly innocent - like Tristan - are the ones who suffer the most.