Adali

"*Take responsibility for your actions.*"
―Adali[[The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire, Chapter 22: Twisting and Turning]]

## General details

### Relatives

* Ifir (husband, deceased)
* Vhadi (son, deceased)
* Ada (daughter, deceased)
* Adalia (daughter, deceased)
* Eran Iliakambar (son)
* Ambari (sister, deceased)
* Iliak (brother-in-law, deceased)

## Physical description

### Hair color

*Unknown*

**Adali** was a Seelie ambaros, wife of Ifir, and mother of Vhadi, Eran Iliakambar, Ada, and Adalia. She was killed in the ice plague.

## Appearance

Ambaros can pass as human, so it's likely Adali looks like a normal human, versus Ifir, who bears large horns on his head. She has amber-yellow glowing eyes that 'could flare a vivid orange in an instant'. She has 'smooth, gentle hands' and a soft voice. Her hair smells of fire and smoke. Eran describes her as beautiful.

## Personality

Albion says that Adali 'was graceful and beautiful, with a sharp, keen mind that she softened with her love for Ifir and her children.' Eran notes she was 'so self-possessed and polite, yet kind as well. . . . Eran knew that other fae found her intimidating, even though she was never violent, always graceful. But she could see to the heart of a situation, she never lied, and she was far more political than Ifir, even if she didn’t like to spend too much time at the Seelie Court.'

Marika notes that they didn't interact much, but when they did interact at the Seelie Court, Adali was lovely, and 'had a wickedly direct sense of humour that [Marika] appreciated in that poisonous Court.' Gwyn ap Nudd notes Marika's turn of phrase, and implies that Adali knew the court was poisonous, as well, and Marika states, ‘We believed, at the time, that Crielle’s machinations were only designed to hurt those of us who she felt threatened by. Of course her dra’ocht was powerful too. We had no way to protect you properly, Gwyn ap Nudd, and if we played our hand and intentions, she would have killed us.’

Adali 'was always looking for translucent silks and other fabrics.' Eran thinks she would have liked Mosk Manytrees.

## Life

During Albion's war with the Unseelie Court, Albion depends heavily on Adali for advice. Since Ambari was a Seelie Courtier, it's possible Adali was, as well, considering how Albion relied on them.

Kabiri states that Adali taught Eran how to show respect to a god.

She is respected among the Unseelie marid-djinn, despite being Seelie, and they wouldn't speak badly of Seelie around her. She was also well-known on sight to many fae.

Adali was killed by the ice plague along with all of her family, save Eran.

## Special Abilities

### Fae abilities:

**Teleportation:** Adali's teleportation is 'warming and orangey-yellow, leaving a feeling of having been cradled by flames.'

### Magical propensity:

**Magic:** Adali 'could have been a great magician of flames and fire, but she'd always said that she was in no rush, that she'd always have time in the future to go in that direction if she wanted to.'

Eran says his mother makes the best fires. 'She could make blue flames drop from her fingertips like rain, shaking them free where they’d wriggle to life and give themselves to the gods instead.'

### Skills:

**Dancing:** Adali is a skilled dancer with veils.

**Music:** Adali sang lullabies to Eran, to comfort him.

## Relationships

### Ada and Adalia

Eran's sisters would tease 'him until he lost his temper at them, and they fled giggling from him,' whereupon their mother would reprimand Eran for not being nicer and the twins for niggling.

### Albion

Albion seems to respect Adali, and spent much time with her.

### Eran Iliakambar

Eran and his mother were close, and they shared a similar nature. Eran believes his mother would be disappointed in Eran's delight in thinking of torturing Mosk. He often thinks of her when he doubts his actions. He used to give her massages.

## Quotations

* Amhar: 'Your father was lucky to land her.’ Eran: ‘He always said she was blind'
* 'You might have an Unseelie father, Eran. But you are not Unseelie, remember that'
* Eran: '[M]y mother loved my father’s meals, and he loved hers. The ambaros and afrit have different cuisines, use different spices, and eventually they made shared dishes too. It was one of the things that came out of it, Seelie and Unseelie living together. I never really noticed much else, but I remember getting excited as a child that they were inventing new dishes together, for each other.'
* Eran: 'His mother had always taught him that an apology had to be offered without expectation'.
* Eran: '[Adali] would tell him to let it out, set it loose, make it into something good.'
* 'Of course it is not always what we want it to be, but we are of fire, we can shape the things we can shape, it is our nature to change and challenge. But for all else, we must accept. A fire can try to burn a stone away, but in the end, the stone often remains and the fire is tired.'

## Trivia

* She made strong tea.
* She was respected by many, from Amhar to Gwyn ap Nudd.
* Adali was hundreds of years old.
* She would go hunting in the desert with hounds.
* Adali and Ifir taught Eran how to haggle.
* Adali could make 'a shole-zard that did more than nourish, but filled one with a complex, loving magic. It was given to afrit and ambaros who were aggrieved or ailing due to depressions they couldn’t elevate.'
* Adali and Ambari were both Seelie ambaros who married Unseelie afrit. They are also a pair of sisters who married a pair of brothers.

## References

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