Elade

Elade was the mother of Widdershins. She came from a family skilled in animal husbandry and married a wood-cutter. In addition to Widdershins, she bore one other son.The Crippled God, Chapter 14, US TPB p.410-412
Widdershins described his mother as like a bird, "the kind that flits about as if no branch gives comfort, no leaf makes perfect shade". Her husband was jealous and abusive, and violently beat her.
==In The Crippled God==
Widdershins recalled how their neighbour, old Ginanse the knife-sharpener, had been found strangled in the alley behind his shop. Elade had always thought him a sweet soul and he hardly charged her for his work. Evidence suggested Ginanse had been strangled by a horsehair rope, a traditional punishment for adulterers by wood-cutters. Realising her husband was guilty of the crime, Elade killed him by stabbing him in the chest with the family's lethally sharp knife.
==Notes and references==
Category:Females