Faiera

Note: Spoilers ahead

Lady Faiera of Perdruin

A member of the League of the Scroll, said to be a witch. Daughter of Baron Amando of Perduin. Owns a Sithi Mirror.

She was a member of the League already by the time of "The Dragonbone Chair" and is presumably one of those unnamed, who Doctor Morgenes sent his sparrows to right before his death. (In the sequel book "The Witchwood Crown" ch. 28, Tiamak tells Simon and Miriamele, that Geloë was offered a place in the League, but she declined and suggested the place to be given to Lady Faiera instead).

She owned a house in Ansis Pellipé and had servants of her own.

About 10 years after the coronation of Queen Miriamele and King Simon, she vanishes. Around that time the plague had been raging in Ansis Pellipé, and a fire destroyed her home and much of the neighborhood she lived in. Whether she died in either of those catastrophes or fell silent for another reason, became a mystery.

Was before that visited by Josua Lackhand, who disappeared around the same time - again, there is no knowlegde of whether there was a connection.

Though Tiamak and Count Eolair search for both for many years, they are not found. What happened to both, remains unknown, until Father Etan starts the search anew in answer to a request of Simon and Miriamele and manages to locate Faiera.

She had settled in a hermit's hut near the town Piga Fonto, where she lived under the name "Grandi", making ends meet by raising vegetables and selling healing tonics to the folks from around.

As per her tale she was visited by Prince Josua on a friendly basis which was not what she had bargained for. When she wanted to win his interest by presenting her Sithi Mirror, he was shocked she owned that sort of a thing and didn't want to see it. In desperation she then confessed her love to him which he did not reciprocated and therefore left her, promising to remain her colleague and friend.

In her drunk and desolate state, Lady Faiera then used the mirror though she did not know how to handle it. She remembers that she felt drawn into it, that there was some presence inside the mirror and that she had wanted to see Josua. Later she put her own house to the torch and then lost her mind. She was found by nons of St. Pellipa who took her in and cared for her until years later her memory and mind slowly returned. Only later did she find out that Prince Josua had been missing since that evening.

Yet exactly what had happened to him, remains unknown to her as well."'I know nothing of what happened to Josua, except that the last moment he was with me will haunt me until I die, and maybe longer. I doubt you find him. Either he is dead or he does not wish to be found.' (Empire of Grass, end of ch. 41)"(This is as far as the end of "Empire of Grass")