Faelamor

Faelamor is a main character in Ian Irvine's "The View from the Mirror" quartet. She is leader of the Faellem species, Maigraith's liege and constantly searching for a way to escape Santhenar and lead her people back to Tallallame.

Characteristics

Faelamor is a small, slender woman with golden, almost feline eyes. She has translucent skin, making it possible to see the blood pulsing under her flesh. Faelamor has small sharp teeth and, despite her age, has an ageless beauty. She is not physically strong, but her powers of the mind are great. Faelamor has small hands and feet, with sharp nails. Her face is usually calm and controlled, betraying nothing of what she might be thinking.

When she was young Faelamor had a genuine love of life and of nature. She had ambition, drive and the will to lead her people. However when she and the rest of the Faellem were stranded upon Santhenar and Yalkara surrendered a certain secret before fleeing Santhenar herself, Faelamor became obsessed with leading her people home. It consumed her body and soul, allowing her to be able to commit heinous crimes, with little regard for the other species, or even the taboos of her species.

Powers and Abilities

The powers of Faelamor are different from those of the other great mancers. She does not use raw power or blast her enemies away, those forms of Secret Art are barred to her, forbidden to her people. The Faellem are masters of the forms of the Art that involve illusion, deception, concealment and enchantment.

But Faelamor's powers are greater, than any other among her people. She is the greatest illusionist in the Three Worlds and her illusions are capable of driving anyone mad. She has faced those, capable of using the Art in a more direct and more physical manner than herself and bested them. Faelamor uses her cold, calculating intellect to assess the strengths and weaknesses of her enemies and uses these in her illusions.

Faelamor's History

Leadership of the Faellem

When the Way Between the Worlds was opened, four thousand years before "The View from the Mirror", a small number of void beasts were released onto Tallallame, though the Faellem were used to wild-beasts and not troubled by them. It became obvious to the Faellem that the most dangerous creatures of all were on the other two worlds. The other human species.

The Faellem chose Faelamor to be their leader on the mission to recover the Golden Flute and to keep an eye on the disturbing Charon. Faelamor came to Santhenar, a young woman, in love with nature and exceedingly powerful in the Secret Art. She made alliances with the Aachim and Old humans and planned to defy Rulke and keep the Flute from him. During this time Faelamor met the greatest enemy of her life, her nemesis, Yalkara.

When Shuthdar destroyed the Flute and the Forbidding came down, Faelamor strove to find a flaw in it and lead her people home. She fought Yalakra, in the ruins of Tar Gaarn and forced a secret from her. Yalkara was almost fatally injured in this confrontation and left Santhenar through a flaw in the Forbidding.

Faelamor lay on her death bed for months after her great battle with Yalkara and became different, bitter and twisted. She constructed a plan and for the next 300 years her every move was meticulously planned.