the mages and their servants... mages can use different types of magic, but normally have a specialty, which they use most of the time... (fire-magic, earth-magic, weather-magic, water-magic)
all of the types of magic where originally mastered by a different type of creature... dragons were masters of fire-magic, mages of earth-magic, cloud-riders (or something) of weather-magic and whales of water-magic... but enough with that , this is supposed to be about the characters, right? RIGHT?? ^___^


the characters


Aurian


magic: all, but her specialty are fire and earth, becuz of her parents the main character... in the beginning she`s a little girl, when she meets Forral, some really famous knight of who`s she never had heard (she`s a mage, and her mother is one... her mother lived in a valley alone with her daughter for 8 years, trying to repair some damage her husband made... they never get visitors and stuff...) Forral was a friend of her father, who came as soon as he could to offer his help to Eilin, Aurian`s mother... Eilin wants Forral to leave, but Aurian begs him to stay, and he makes a small camp just outside the house, agains the will of Eilin... time goes by, Eilin tries Forral to leave, Forral tries harder to stay, and Eilin finally agrees that Forral can stay... and so Aurian gets the father-like person she never had...
he learns her to read and, so she won`t have the time to secretley play with fireballs, he learns her how to use a sword... at first they begin with wooden swords, but on Aurians 13th birthday, Forral gives her a real sword, wich she names Coronach (or something)... one day, while practising, something goes wrong, and Aurian gets badly injured... after that, it is decided that she`ll study magic in the Academy of Nexus, which is near the Valley she lived... while Forral leaves her, because it`s all his fault... years pass, Aurian learns lots and lots of magic, but suddenly collapses, because she overtired herself way too much... Aurian is lost in her mind, unable to be cured... the Mages send a messanger to Forral, because of Aurian`s problems, and he gets some real high job at the city of Nexus... Aurian awakens after she hears the familiar voice of Forral... things happen between them, Aurian starts training again with her sword, and Forral and Aurian become lovers... one day, a slave escapes from the academy, is captured, and Forral is asked to make judgement or something... the slave is badly injured when Forral and Aurian arrive, and Aurian heals him... when the head-mage (or whatever) arrives, the slave is scared to death of him (see Anvar)... seen as he was already "punished enough", he won`t be punished anymore... because of his fears of Miathan (the head-mage) and of going back to the kitchens (where he escaped from), he becomes Aurians servant... when Aurian leaves for the summer to her mother, Arvan goes to help Finbar (the coolest of the mages)... when Aurian comes back, Miathan tries to rape her, and Arvan and Finbar run to the room where it happens... Miathan is stopped, and what happened is sorta ignored... Forral isn`t told of what happened, and later, Aurian becomes pregnant of Forral`s child...

Anvar

son of a baker and his wife... or maybe not exactly... he is always used by his father for things, and he hits him with every excuse, for some reason.... the only joy in his life is Sara, daughter of the miller that supplies the bakery... they are lovers, and there are plans that they`ll marry one day... her, and musical instruments made by his grandfather are the only lights in his dark life... one day, he sees a knight in a hurry because of a young girl dying... the horse of the knight dies (dunno anymore how...), and Anvar`s horse is taken... so the flower he is supposed to bring to his dad for bread is late, and his father hits him again (even though they got some big reward for lending the horse)...
When Anvar`s grandfather is dying, he tries to have the healing mage (Meiriel) to heal him, but she refuses to use her talents on mortals (if she did, she would be healing them all the time)... Anvar gets some hatred agains mages, like his "father" has... One day, he goes to Sara, and she tells him that she`s pregnant of him, and he thinks that`s great, but she thinks she ain`t ready for it yet... he comforts her, and they end up making love the whole night... Anvar oversleeps, and runs to the store... he gets in the store, and sees his mother using an oillamp to light the oven... a big explosion follows, and Anvar watches his mother die before his eyes... (at that time, a supernatural wind blows him agains the wall...), his father enters, and punches him hard... he loses conciousness (or however ya spell it)... when he wakes up, he hears his father and the head-mage talk: (note: this is what I think is being said, translated from dutch... I don`t know what is said in the English version) I always knew he wasn`t my son, but when I saw him being blown agains the wall, I knew it... he`s the son of one of your kind, lord... (Anvar`s Father)
those are hard accusations, baker... you know that such a thing between a mage and a mortal is forbidden... (Miathan)
I know, lord... and I think that`s why Ria (Anvar`s mother) was banished when she became pregnant... what Anvar did today proves that, and he is your responsibility... I don`t care what you do with him, as long as u take him with you... I don`t want to see him ever again!! (AF)
Ok, on one condition... that you`ll deny the whole story... if a mage makes a mistake, it doesn`t have to be known by everyone... (M)
I`ll sign everything to lose him... (AF)
Then I`ll take him with me... (M)
And so he`s taken from a dark life to a life worse then hell... for some reason Miathan hates him like hell (getting it already?), and he is given as a slave to work in the kitchens, where he is hit more then he was at home, and nobody talks to him, cuz the rumour`s going round that he killed his mother...
later, he becomes a servant to Aurian, and the truth becomes clear about his mother`s death... (the rumours went way out of the kitchen)... he becomes a good friend of Aurian and Forral, and during some big party at the mages, Forral takes him to a cafe, and they get drunk with the other soldiers... They also discover Arvan`s talent of music, and he plays all kinds of songs, with lots of drunken soldiers singing... Anvar is finally happy... when Aurian is going away to her mother for a while, Anvar becomes an assistant to Finbar, and while working in the library, they discover some hidden area... they get the head-mage, who, without the others knowing it, takes the Coldron, one of the 4 weapons of power...
when Aurian is pregnant from Forral (wich happens after the attempted rape), Miathan asks Meiriel to remove Aurian`s baby while she`s unconcious... Anvar finds out about this, and runs to get Forral... Forral gets there as quick as possible, followed by Anvar and Vannor (head of the merchant`s guild of the town)... Miathan releases the power of the Coldron, and Forral dies... Finbar rushes to place the "nihilim", the ghosts of death from the Coldron, are, and tries to place them outside of time... Anvar, Aurian and Vannor are forced to flee, while Finbar dies trying to get rid of the nihilim... the head-mage is corrupt, Anvar and Aurian have to flee Nexus with Vannor`s wife, Sara (Anvar`s former love), and lots of people in Nexus die... (I`ll skip a large part here, Anvar, Aurian and Sara are blown by winds to the lands of the south, Sara betrays Anvar and Aurian and becomes queen of one country in the south... too bad he wants her to get a son, cuz she can`t get children anymore, something went wrong when her child of Anvar was removed...)... Anvar becomes a slave once more, and gets saved by Aurian... later, it becomes clear that Anvar can use magic too... his magical ability was stolen by Miathan, the only one who knew everything about Anvar`s magic ability... Miathan is Anvar`s father...

Finbar



A friendly mage, he is the one who works in the library... when he met Aurian when she was 13, she already liked him... later, he became one of the best friends she had (of the mages)... he`s also a good friend to Anvar, when Aurian stays with her mother for a while... he has a relationship with Meiriel... (look, I don`t know how I can describe him, k? he`s the mage with the biggest sense of humor, his sarcasm about Eliseth when he meets Aurian is way cool, and he`s a real hero... it`s a shame he gets killed... I mean, he saved Aurian from being raped once, and he saved her from being eaten by the nihilim... what cost him his own life...)...although he might be dead, I don`t know what will happen in part4... in this series, dead people have tried to go back into the world more then once... if he`ll return, the world would at least be a funnier place to be^___^

Meiriel



The healer... she`s the one who saved Aurian when she got hurt.. but she didn`t give a damn when a mortal would die... she got angry when she was woken by one of the guards because Anvar (then still the "baker`s son")... she`s also in love with Finbar... when Finbar is hanging out with Aurian, she gets real jealous, and Eliseth knows how to make the jealousy get out... later, she`s used by the head-mage to get rid of Aurian`s baby... (which has got a reason too... read the book and you`ll find out...) when Finbar dies, she loses it... she ain`t the healer she once was, and when Miathan gets his eyes burned by fire from Aurian (who isn`t at full power because she`s pregnant), she refuses to heal his eyes... when Elwin (head of the servants) escapes with the refugees she escapes with them... she may not be on the evil side, she ain`t exactly the nicest person, and she`s insane... she`s way unpredictable...

Elwin



The faithfull servant... or so it seems... before the big coldron-happening, he`s a nice guy, a friendly guy... although he doesn`t gossip, he did hear about Arvan`s past, and warned Aurian about it... he may not be a good guy in the eyes of the normal mortals, after the coldron-happening, he is a spy for the refugees... he later escapes with meiriel, and travels with her and Parric to the lands down south to search for Aurian and Anvar...

D`arvan and Davorshan



(note: it`s easier for me to do these two together)
The "twins"... both are mages... but they aren`t really talented... D`arvan seems like not being able to use magic at all, while his brother is able to use water-magic... they were really close, till Eliseth started something with Davorshan... the brothers grew apart... Aurian convinced D`arvan to go with her to the Garrison, where she hoped he would make friends... and D`arvan did... he became close friends with Maya, Forral`s understudy (or whateva)... Eliseth convinced Miathan to throw D`arvan out, while she convinced Davorshan that the twins have got enough magic for one mage... so if he killed his brother, he would be able to become a complete mage or something... D`arvan was thrown out, and when he left, his brother tried to kill him... he somehow got to the cafe where Aurian, Maya and some others where, and Aurian thought of the one magic D`arvan hadn`t tried to use: Earth-magic...
Maya and D`arvan went to the valley where Eilin, Aurian`s mother, lived... she became D`arvan`s teacher.... D`arvan also finally learned about his true past... his true father... his mother didn`t love his partner, so she had a lil something with the king of the elves... she became pregnant of the king of elves, and she had to get a child of her partner too, or it would become suspicious... so there would be two children... the child of her love, D`arvan, and the child of her duty, Davorshan...
Meanwhile, the trouble in Nexus started and Finbar died... Eliseth wanted Eilin dead, cuz she was a threat, so she got Davorshan to do so... while Maya and D`arvan where alone, D`arvan told of nightmares he had... nightmares about his brother... Maya asked if his brother might have found out they were here... then D`arvan realised it... they went to Eilin as soon as they could... D`arvan saw his brother again... the faced each other... and they fought... when it was over, D`arvan killed his brother... half-brother... and they saw Eilin... she was dying... so D`arvan did the only thing he could do.. he called for his father... Eilin was saved... but in the elven world... and D`arvan and Maya had to do something... a task... they had to pay the price for calling the elven king... it was they`re rules... he couldn`t even let his son out... D`arvan and Maya had to guard the valley, and the Sword of Flames (the most powerful of the four weapons of power)...

Bragar



Bragar, a fire-mage... used by Eliseth by things she can`t do herself... he loves her, but he has to compete with Davorshan (while he is still alive)... he`s old, he`s ugly, he`s dumb and he`s almost useless... he dies while saving Eliseth during an attack from Aurian and Anvar from the southern lands... he died protection the woman he loved...

Eliseth



The ambitious, almost heartless, backstabbing, people-using snake... she knows how to use people, and ain`t afraid of doing it... she was the first person assigned to teach Aurian stuff, but they hated each other like hell (there is a hint in the book that this is part of Miathan`s plan), and she made Aurian desperate enough to try and run away from the Academy...
later, she uses her body to use Davorshan, Bragar, and maybe even Miathan (don`t know this for sure, but I guess so...) it`s her fault that Bragar is dead (see Bragar), and she has certain guilt over the death of Davorshan... after Bragar dies, Miathan blamer her and turns her into some old hag (sorry, not trying to be disrespectful to anyone here), cuz she was so proud of her beaty and stuff... she uses others, but she`s being used by Miathan himself too...
she knows quite a bit about weather-magic, but I guess she also knows how to use water-magic, as she`s the one who tought Davorshan some...

Miathan



The guy on top... he has knowledge over various types of magic, including black-magic which he uses through the Coldron... also, like Eliseth, he knows how to use people, as he uses Harihn (some prince in the southern countries), Raaf, (dunno if this is a dutch translation of her name, it`s the one in the dutch books) the princess of the cloud-riders, and various other people...
he`s also responsible for quite a few deaths, including the death of Forral and Finbar, and there are also hints that he has some part in the death of Aurian`s father, the fire-mage Gerlant, and he sacrifes mortals to the Coldron... I guess he would be your typical planet-want-to-rule-and-real-evil-dictator-like-guy, but he made some "mistakes" in his life... (which most of them don`t make)..
A: He tried to rape Aurian once, which made almost all respect she had for him go away...
B: He made a mortal woman pregnant, leading to the birth of his son, Arvan...
He despises the mortals, almost as much as he despises half-blood`s (hence his hatred to Arvan and Aurian`s baby)...
He doesn`t want Aurian dead, he still wants her... that`s the reason he turned Eliseth into an old hag, she tried to kill Aurian... so, he`s your typical old-horny-mass-murdering-mortal-sacrificing-guy-who-tries-to-rule-the-world... not a nice guy...

Eilin



Mother of Aurian, and, hope this will be the right translation, lady of the woods.... she`s one of the few earth-mages (Aurian, D`arvan and her), and she was trying to restore the damage her late husband has done...
back when Aurian and Forral still lived in the valley, and she refused to let Forral stay, Aurian got lost one day... unable to find her in a cold winter night, she called forth the king of the Elves, Hellorin... she saved her daughter that way, but one day, she would have to repay her debt... something wich could be a really high price to pay...
she`s the teacher of D`arvan after he came to the valley...

Gerlant



Aurian`s father, the former husband of Eilin, he took care of Forral when he was little... they say he died trying to use the magic of dragons... he`s a real mystery to me... Miathan played some part in his death, but what part? how did he die? IS HE REALLY DEAD???? maybe the fourth book will answer my questions, but for now, these questions are still in my head... one thing I do know... he must have been one heck of a mage... there have been rumors that he might become Miathan`s succesor as head-mage... also, the crater that was left in the earth after he died was BIG... it probably was so that Miathan feared for his position, but could it be that some other creatures think he was too powerful??? I mean, what if they feared the world would be destroyed again if there would be a mage too powerful??? could it be that the gods feared that? (note: by something that happened in the past, the world was almost destroyed, and 6 mages were played outside of time for one century... they began the new race of mages...) maybe my ideas here are pointless... maybe I just need to get enough $$ to buy the last book... maybe the world just keeps getting weirder every day... maybe I just need a drink...