Dedelin
King of Idris, the man who negotiated the treaty with Hallandren as his first act after his father's assassination. Severe, devout, and proud enough to admit only to Yarda that he is afraid of what it will cost. His Royal Locks show streaks of red when Siri makes him angry — which is often. STD:WB:Ch 1
Known facts
- authored-treatyNegotiated the treaty with Hallandren as his first official act after his father's assassination, trading the eldest daughter of his line at her twenty-second birthday for twenty years of peace.STD:WB:Ch 1
- sends-siri-not-vivennaChooses to send Siri south to wed the God King in Vivenna's place — reasoning that the treaty only specifies a daughter, not which one, and that he could not trust himself to hold the line against Hallandren if they ever held Vivenna as a hostage against him.STD:WB:Ch 1
- bought-lemex-breathHis own hand confesses, in a letter Vivenna finds in Lemex's desk, that he sent royal funds for Lemex to buy Breath enough to attend the Court of Gods sessions — a transaction the Austrinist tenets he rules under explicitly forbid.STD:WB:Ch 17
- kept-vivennaWrote to Lemex in the weeks before Lemex's death that he could not bring himself to deliver Vivenna into Hallandren — to send her would be to kill her — and was contemplating breaking the treaty rather than face it, knowing what it would cost his country.STD:WB:Ch 17
Events
- STD:WB:Ch 1 Stares at the pink Hallandren letter, watches Siri gallop laughing into the courtyard with her hair flame-red, and decides — over Vivenna's objection — to send the youngest daughter in the eldest's place.
- STD:WB:Ch 2 Refuses Vivenna's plea to reverse the decision — "all she really needs to do is have a baby" — but his hair bleeds red and the line of his mouth betrays how much it costs him.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 1
- factSisirinah
- factSisirinah
- factVivenna
- factIdris
- factBevalis Palace
- factYarda
- factFafen
- factRidger
- factRoyal Locks
- factThe Idris–Hallandren Treaty
- factSusebron
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- factVivenna
- factLemex
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- factVivenna
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- factDenth