Codex Alera/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Making a Splash]]: Very possibly the most powerful watercrafter in all of Alera, High Lords included.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: She's probably in her mid-forties, but could pass for eighteen if it wasn't for some grey in her hair.

** However, it's unclear exactly why that is: maybe she got them from the swim in the ocean in a stressful situation, but then again maybe she had that power all along or {{spoiler|Septimus left her some furies of his own when he died}} and she didn't realize it. In either case, any extraordinary use of her power in her homeland is more normal where she is familiar with the place, and because she's a nobody from the hinterlands, she just assumed she couldn't possibly be that powerful otherwise.

* [[Unhappy Medium]]: She's as good or better at watercrafting as some of the High Lords, but doesn't share their ability to block out [[The Empath|emotions]] with metalcrafting. This leaves her curled up in a little ball from emotional overload a couple of times.

* [[Exclusively Evil|Always Lawful Evil]]: But justified by being part of a [[Hive Mind]].

* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: Vord not controlling an Aleran, Canim, Marat, etc. are usually gigantic bugs. Queens, of course, excepted.

* [[Evil Evolves]]: The queen constantly breeds new forms to adapt to changing conditions and correct any weaknesses. Face them with Knights Aeris? You get flying vordknights. Face them with a legion shieldwall? You get mantis warriors that attack over the top of it. Face them with defensive fortifications? You get giant vordbulks that can plow through them.

* [[Hive Mind]]

* [[Bishonen Line]]: Of the great furies we see, Kalare is a giant volcano, Garados is a hideous mountain beast, and Thana is a vast, gaunt shape composed of countless windmanes. Alera, on the other hand, is very humanlike until you get to her eyes.

* [[Kaleidoscope Eyes]]: They cycle through just about every color imaginable. But then, she's a [[Physical God]]...

* {{spoiler|[[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]: Sextus's destruction of Alera Imperia destroyed the mosaic that called her into being as a discrete existence, and she's already fading away when she first meets Tavi.}}

* [[Physical God]]

 

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