She's basically a 20th-century version of St. Clare of Assissi in many ways: a fourteen year-old girl from a rich Italian family who runs away from home to join Hagbard's cabal (the story of said running away given in some greater detail in Appendix Lamed, pp. 774-777). Then, in Book 2 (pp. 429-432), Hagbard resigns as episkopos of the Lief Erikson cabal in favor of her after she answers one of his questions correctly, then stares him down when he accuses her of cheating. (That's the scene in the Youtube video above; it just hits all of my narrative kinks at once.) In Book 3 (pp. 723-727), after the climax has passed, she commiserates over the futility of life and human progress via pineal gland with the the Dealy Lama, and it's she who recognizes him as being a repenting Gruad/Greyface.
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Date: 2010-11-20 07:05 pm (UTC)She's basically a 20th-century version of St. Clare of Assissi in many ways: a fourteen year-old girl from a rich Italian family who runs away from home to join Hagbard's cabal (the story of said running away given in some greater detail in Appendix Lamed, pp. 774-777). Then, in Book 2 (pp. 429-432), Hagbard resigns as episkopos of the Lief Erikson cabal in favor of her after she answers one of his questions correctly, then stares him down when he accuses her of cheating. (That's the scene in the Youtube video above; it just hits all of my narrative kinks at once.) In Book 3 (pp. 723-727), after the climax has passed, she commiserates over the futility of life and human progress via pineal gland with the the Dealy Lama, and it's she who recognizes him as being a repenting Gruad/Greyface.