Fen Rnamdi
also known as Queen Fen
Queen of Thaylenah. Salty-tongued, hands-on, and not above swearing at a foreign highprince over the spanreed — at the moment juggling a city flattened by the Everstorm, an entire fleet stolen by transformed parshmen, and the Weeping all at once. SA:OB:Ch 12
Known facts
- fen-begins-to-listenBrought through a highstorm into one of Dalinar's Radiant visions, Fen organizes the besieged townspeople into a defensive line around their children and a bonfire, doing in minutes what Dalinar himself never managed his first time through. Afterwards she still does not trust him — she has been told by spanreed informants that he has gone mad, perhaps joined the Voidbringers — but the personal contact and his honest temper convince her to begin listening, and Dalinar privately believes she will eventually come to Urithiru.SA:OB:Ch 37
- agrees-to-visit-urithiruAfter Dalinar sends her into the Aharietiam vision alone in the morning's highstorm, the queen of Thaylenah sends back a single word by spanreed: *Yes.* She will receive a Radiant and travel to Urithiru. Kaladin agrees to make the storm-flight to Thaylen City in the next highstorm to bring her through.SA:OB:Ch 50
Events
- SA:OB:Ch 37 Wakes inside the Midnight Essence vision as herself — shorter than Dalinar, oval-faced, white Thaylen eyebrows curling beside her cheeks, in the man's clothing the vision assigned her — and within minutes has rallied the village around a bonfire to fight back.
- SA:OB:Ch 64 Visiting Urithiru after Thaylen's rebuild has begun. Argues across Navani for Dalinar — *by all reports he got stabbed through the chest, lifted a stone the weight of ten men, then started putting my city back together* — and hands him the packet of three essays she has prepared for the Azimir visit.
- SA:OB:Ch 96 Sets her painted high-backed Thaylen chair beside the windows with her consort and ultimately accepts the offer to administer coalition trade.
- SA:OB:Ch 107 Confronts Dalinar about his week of seclusion, accepts his apology, and warns him as the planning closes that her sailors follow the Passions and there is talk that Thaylenah should break from the Vorin church now that he has been excommunicated.
- SA:RoW:Ch 19 Baffled by the unanimous council, Queen Fen commits Thaylenah to the Emul offensive, demands Stormblessed's whereabouts, and presses Sigzil for the Windrunner support a sea front will need.
- SA:WaT:Ch 61 Meets Jasnah at the foot of the steps with Kmakl and the merchant council, walks the bay wall, and confesses she fears being the queen who suffered two cataclysms — and that she relies too much on a foreign monarchy whose Radiant orders take all her aspirants to Urithiru.
- SA:WaT:Ch 108 Paces the Dalinar-restored temple in Thaylen dress, sceptical that the enemy will even come, then accepts a seat in the discussion circle once she is satisfied this really is Taravangian and not Rayse.
- SA:WaT:Ch 112 Sits in the small round temple in Thaylen City as the audience Taravangian is performing for. Quotes her ancestor *Tslamfn the Just* on a kingdom's right to conflict.
- SA:WaT:Ch 114 Receives the port contracts, returns Taravangian's old Alethi grievances each time with *mistakes which we have done better with,* and stays at Jasnah's side as the Aesudan contract is set in her hand.
- SA:WaT:Ch 116 Holds the contract at Jasnah's side throughout the debate; surprises Jasnah by admitting she could not assassinate a friend, and ultimately signs Taravangian's deal.
Backreferences
- summarySA:OB:Ch 12
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- factFen Rnamdi
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- factNoura
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- factCoalition of Monarchs
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- summarySA:RoW:Ch 3
- factKmakl
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- factFladrn
- factThaylen Royal Yacht
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- factDalinar Kholin
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- factAika
- factJezinor
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- factTaravangian
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- factJasnah Kholin
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