Adien
Daora's second son, restored. The Shaod took him five years before, and his family hid the silver skin under makeup rather than throw him into the cursed city. The condition that kept him counting under his breath turns out to have been only an inability to interact — the mind beneath was always able to figure numbers, accurate to the last stride. Silver-skinned and lucid after Raoden restores Elantris, his exact count of the strides to Teoras is what lets the king leap blind across the sea to save his wife. EL:EL:Ch 62
Lukel's full brother by Daora's first marriage — a thin-faced teenager whose mind is not whole. Moves stiffly, eats with a spoon, and mumbles numbers to himself between sentences. EL:EL:Ch 5 superseded at EL:EL:Ch 62
Known facts
- hidden-elantrianWalks calmly out of the captive crowd in Elantris and lays himself down on the heap of Elantrians without flinching from a soldier's sword stroke that finds no blood. The Shaod took Adien five years before; his family covered the change with makeup rather than throw him into the cursed city, and only the day of Dilaf's purge made him reveal himself.EL:EL:Ch 60
- numbers-savantTells Raoden on the wall of Elantris that his condition has only ever been an inability to interact — the mind underneath had always been able to figure numbers. He gives the exact count of his own strides to Teoras (one million, fifty-four thousand, four hundred and forty-two) and the count to the docks (four hundred and one fewer), allowing Raoden to seal Aon Tia with a real distance and leap blind.EL:EL:Ch 62
- completes-shaodThe restoration of Elantris completes the Shaod in him as well — silver skin, white hair, lucid eyes — and his mind comes back online with his body. Five years' silence end on the wall of the city he had lain down inside to die.EL:EL:Ch 62
- hidden-five-yearsThe Shaod took him five years before Elantris's fall; his family — knowing what the city had become — chose to cover the silver skin with makeup rather than throw him into it. He stood his whole adolescence inside that secret, marking the steps from one room to another.EL:EL:Epilogue
Events
- EL:EL:Ch 5 Eats with a spoon at the family table, mumbling exact distances under his breath ("two million one hundred six thousand two hundred and thirty-eight steps to Svorden").
- EL:EL:Ch 8 Arrives late to lunch, mumbling numbers through his food; the word "Elantris" surfaces from him more than once.
- EL:EL:Ch 29 Greets Sarene with the exact step-count from the house to Elantris.
- EL:EL:Ch 58 In the kitchen with the other children when Sarene is brought in.
- EL:EL:Ch 60 Walks calmly behind Lukel counting his steps, oddly unconcerned about the destination.
- EL:EL:Ch 60 Walks calmly out of the crowd, counts the steps to the bodies, and lays himself down with the Elantrians after a sword stroke draws no blood — his secret out.
- EL:EL:Ch 62 Stands on the wall silver-skinned and lucid, gives Raoden the exact stride count to Teoras from memory of a childhood visit, and revises it to the docks.
- EL:EL:Epilogue Stands just behind Raoden and Lukel at the memorial — silver-skinned, lucid, looking strikingly like his brother now that the years of hidden makeup are off.
Backreferences
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 5
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 8
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 29
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 58
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 60
- factAdien
- summaryEL:EL:Ch 62
- summaryEL:EL:Epilogue