Gartrett Corbie

Gartrett Corbie (known mainly as 'Corbie') is a significant ensemble character introduced during Corambis. She is a prostitute and a wizard who joins Felix and Mildmay on their journey from Bernatha to Esmer. She is initially their guide, then Felix's pimp, then finally his student. 
== Appearance ==
She is seventeen years old, fine-boned (especially by Corambin standards) and half-Ygressine which gives her a less heavy jaw. She has curly, pale blonde hair and dark deep blue/violet eyes that Felix initially mistakes for brown. Her nose is long. 
She has a melodic, smooth voice. She wears skirts and heels, and is very vigilant about maintaining her appearance.
== In the Books ==
==== Corambis ====
First meets Felix working as a jezebel pledged to the House of Chastity (brothel: The Brocade Mouse) in Bernatha, while Mildmay is sick with the Winter Fever, and recommends a cheap hotel to them (the Fiddler's Fox) after Felix pays her for information. Later, she saves him from being mugged, and they become friends. She offers to pimp for him so he can make more money to get medical care for Mildmay. When Felix is assaulted and tortured to reset the Clock of Eclipses, she pushes him to press charges with the House of Honesty, but he refuses, which causes many arguments between them. 
Felix ends up teaching her magic, and she confronts Corambis' societal stigma towards women magicians by going with Felix to the Institute to become a student there at the Women's College. She stops working as a prostitute, and instead attends some of the college classes, especially Felix's class - as she's too early to enrol in the Women's College officially - works doing mending for money, and stays with Mrs. Davidge at her hotel, The Golden Hare. 
She sleeps with Mildmay for fun in Esmer, and they enjoy casual sex.
She becomes determined to become the first woman Virtuer in Corambis, and gains the support of some of the other Virtuers, especially Virtuer Hutchence. 
== Personality ==
Generous, assertive, compassionate and sometimes self-conscious, Corbie is initially only helpful to Felix because he pays for her assistance, and then continues to help him because she likes him. She is a business-minded woman, immediately seeing Felix's potential in the business of jezebels, and is resourceful and independent. She can be stubborn, and pushy to the point that Felix imagines that he'd like her if she was a male tarquin. 
She believes in enjoying herself for the sake of it, introducing Mildmay to the concept of having sex for pleasure with no strings attached, and is ambitious and driven. 
She can be insecure around women her own age, and around those who might judge her for being a female wizard. She sometimes feels bullied by other girls in her classes at the Institution, and dislikes the teachers who make her feel like women doing magic is inappropriate. Despite her self-consciousness about her magic, she has a typical wizard's curiosity and interest in learning and understanding how things work, and she is strong and adept at magic.
== Relationships ==
==== Felix Harrowgate ====
Initially informs him of information about Bernatha, such as cheap places to stay, and then becomes his pimp, and then finally becomes his student and friend. She remains a steady friend throughout.
==== Mildmay ====
Initially dubious of Mildmay, she comes to enjoy his company and they eventually have sex for pleasure. 
== Details ==
* Her father was an Ygressine sailor who docked at Patient Harbor, along the Corambin coastline.
* When Felix meets her, she is very secretive about being a wizard. All she knows is her grandmother's trick for hiding herself from others, half-understood philosophies, myths, fallacies, and things she's learned from clients (such as lighting a candle by watching a magician client do it). 
* She went to a dominioner school until she was eight. 
* As she's from Bernatha, her accent bears some similarities with the Caloxan dialect, so she will say things like 'cry your mercy' which is a typically Caloxan saying, while talking more generally in Corambin speech patterns.
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