Janath Anar

Janath Anar was a former senior lecturer at the Academy of Imperial Learning in Letheras, where she specialised in the psychology of the human mind.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2, US HC p.59-60 Among the topics of her lectures and papers were personal responsibility, the necessity for compassion, and the refutation of moral relativism. 
==In Reaper's Gale==
Janath was part of a group of academics and scholars rounded up as political prisoners by Karos Invictad's Patriotists. Unfortunately for her, she caught the eye of Karos' personal assistant, Tanal Yathvanar, who indulged in his own pervisions with female prisoners destined for execution in The Drownings. He starved, tortured, and repeatedly sexually assaulted her. Reaper's Gale, Chapter 1, US HC p.46-49 Much to Tanal's dismay, Janath's execution was halted by the intervention of Rautos Hivanar, Master of the Liberty Consign of Merchants. He notified Karos that influential friends and family of the captives had approached the Consign with requests for aid. Karos warned the Master he tread on thin ground, but promised to look into the matter. After the Master's departure, Karos ordered Janath to be cleaned up and freed. 
Tanal continued to hold her as his prisoner until it was no longer politically expedient to release her. Karos ordered Tanal to instead kill her and disappear her body. But in his own twisted way, Tanal loved Janath. He moved her to another subterranean location and made delusional plans to spend their lives together. Bugg discovered her broken body and tearfully toyed with destroying the Patriotists before bringing her to Tehol Beddict's residence to recuperate.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 7, US HC p.180-187 Tehol recognised her as a former tutor upon whom he once had a youthful crush and still occasionally dreamed about. When Janath awoke, she remembered him too, describing her former student as a "lecherous, pathetic worm", but admitted he was a harmless reminder of her better days.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 9, US HC p.245-247
Under Bugg's care, Janath lost the memories of her ordeal and found herself among friends, unlike her previous life in the cutthroat world of academia. When Tehol revealed to her his plot to destroy and remake the Letherii economy they argued over his motivation and goals, but the debate left her seeing him in a new light.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.546-550
Eventually Tehol's plot was discovered by the Patriotists and Tanal accompanied the squad of thugs who broke into his home to arrest him. Tanal was astonished to discover the semi-amnesiac Janath, who no longer recognised him. He ordered her arrested for escaping custody despite Tehol's claim that an official pardon had been issued after she was believed dead.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 18, US HC p.550-551Reaper's Gale, Chapter 21, US HC p.617-618 Tanal quickly renewed their previous arrangement, bringing her to a secret room within the Patriotists' compound where the nightmare of rape and torture began all over again. This time, though, he amused himself by refreshing her memories of her previous incarceration. Janath eventually worked enough of her chains free to strangle him as he lay atop her.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.763/769-770 She consigned herself to dying alone in Tanal's hideaway before she was found and rescued once again by Bugg. The manservant told the similarly rescued Tehol that Janath would need more of their help and was pleased by Tehol's genuine concern.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.783/811
After Adjunct Tavore Paran's Bonehunters conquered Letheras, Tehol was named the new emperor by popular proclamation.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.813 He took Janath as his wife and empress, and appointed her his Chancellor. She took to wearing the gaudy ceremonial robes of office much to Tehol's chagrin. Not for the first time, the new king wondered why she could not fill the role of First Concubine as well. When he began to consider Rucket for that position, Janath gave her beloved husband a stern warning.Reaper's Gale, Epilogue, US HC p.827-828
==In Dust of Dreams==
Tehol and Janath ruled as king and queen of Lether. She wrote a treatise on her husband's reign entitled "Life of Tehol". As the Bonehunter army prepared to leave Letheras, Bugg noted that she was pregnant and assured her the child would be healthy.
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