Treledees
High priest of Susebron, the God King of Hallandren, sent in person to meet Siri's carriage outside T'Telir. He wears deep blue robes with massive peaked shoulders and a matching headdress — a costume that almost looks like armour — and treats the incoming princess as a vessel to be delivered: there will be no ceremony, the marriage takes effect the moment the God King desires it, and a less cooperative bride can be set aside for another at any time. STD:WB:Ch 4
Known facts
- god-king-marriage-no-ceremonyHolds — and tells Siri flatly at the gate — that the God King requires no ceremony to take a wife: the queen becomes his wife the moment he desires it. A bride judged uncooperative can be set aside and another sent in her place, which (he reminds Siri) would bode badly for her rebel countrymen.STD:WB:Ch 4
- no-exceptionsRefuses Siri any exception to her confinement during the Wedding Jubilation, holding the period of isolation a matter of religion in which the God King's priesthood does not bend.STD:WB:Ch 11
- threatens-siriThreatens Siri in her box at the arena — the God King's priests have been listening for any sign she has lain with her husband, and there is none. He warns her that producing an heir is her only task in the palace and that her homeland's safety depends on it.STD:WB:Ch 16
- bars-siri-from-libraryRefuses Siri direct access to the palace library — books are valuable, even the priests are not allowed to remove them, and he claims the God King himself wishes the volumes to stay in the room. The convenience of speaking for a mute king runs both ways.STD:WB:Ch 24
- reads-siri-hair-by-high-breathTreledees holds enough BioChromatic Breath to read the faintest colour-shifts in Siri's locks — including suppressed reactions that never fully bleach the black. The detail explains his decades of unflappable dismissiveness toward incoming Idrian brides; from his side of any conversation he has been watching their nerves the whole time. Siri only catches him at it when she notices the faint halo of brightened grass around him on the court green.STD:WB:Ch 40
- priests-spied-on-god-king-bedchamberTreledees admits to Siri that the priesthood has been listening in on the God King's bedchamber every night, and that on her first few nights a spy was physically present in the room — to ensure the new Idrian queen was not there to murder Susebron. He tells her flatly that they are still not convinced she is not.STD:WB:Ch 40
- dies-defending-susebronTrapped between two squads of Lifeless in a chamber of the palace, Treledees grits his teeth, charges one of them himself, and dies with his fellow priests in a hopeless last defence of the God King. The secrets of how Susebron is meant to give the Treasure away — given that he cannot speak a Command — die unspoken with him.STD:WB:Ch 54
Events
- STD:WB:Ch 4 Rides up to Siri's carriage in blue and silver, introduces himself as high priest of Susebron, and leads her honour guard the rest of the way into T'Telir and the Court of Gods without waiting for a reply.
- STD:WB:Ch 6 Receives Siri from the carriage at the foot of the palace, dismisses her Idrian honour guard with a raised hand, and lets the women take her down into the palace alone.
- STD:WB:Ch 11 Walks beside Siri through coloured palace rooms in his elaborate miter, politely refusing each variation she proposes on leaving the palace and reminding her that the priesthood does not bend on matters of religion.
- STD:WB:Ch 16 Climbs to Siri's box, calls in the disdain of a man told to chase down a leaking ledger, and warns her that her single duty in the palace is to bear the God King an heir.
- STD:WB:Ch 24 Cuts off Siri's raid on the palace library — fingers laced, miter on his head — by refusing to let her remove any volume. The books, he says, are valuable; the God King wishes them to stay, and the priest who claims that for a tongueless monarch cannot be contradicted.
- STD:WB:Ch 40 Comes in person, repeatedly, to demand Siri attend him over the rumour she has stopped her nightly "duties"; walks with her toward the palace reading her hair the whole way, and accepts the Pahn Kahl handmaid swap without seeing the trap in it.
- STD:WB:Ch 52 Unlocks Siri's door himself with city guards behind him, tells her she must come with him, *we're trying to help you* — and hauls her out of the room as she screams for whoever is fighting in the hall to come for her.
- STD:WB:Ch 53 Leads the file of priests and guards hauling Siri through the corridors past corpses in the dark hallways.
- STD:WB:Ch 54 With his back to a wall and the insurgents closing, sets out for Siri the truths the priesthood has guarded for generations: the gods cannot sire children, the royal line is a fabrication, the God King's office passes by Treasure transfer when an infant Returns, and the reigning God King then lives out his life on his innate weekly Breath. Picks up a fallen guard's sword. Dies with his fellow priests defending Susebron.
- STD:WB:Ch 55 Throws himself in front of the Lifeless with the rest of the priesthood, runs to attack one of them, and dies — taking with him the secret of how the God King was meant to give the Treasure away without speaking.
- STD:WB:Ch 57 His body, among the others carried up by Lifeless to be staged around the altar.
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