Mary Wharrow

### Quick Description

**Mary Wharrow**, also known as **Maria Totales** and **The Changing Girl**, is a newgem and a member of the Pearly Guard. She possesses the changeron ability.

## Personal information

#### Age

20

21

23

#### Born

November 17th, 302 OE;

The Grendel

#### House/Family

* Wharrow
* House Totales(pretending)

### Relationship(s)

* David Barrow (father)
* Ruby Barrow (mother)
* Tree Barrow (older brother)
* Dami Barrow (older brother)
* Glare Barrow (older brother)
* Piza Barrow (younger sister)
* Mevouris Galeore IV(husband)
* Shade Galeore (son)
* Coral Galeore (daughter)
* Mevouris Galeore VI (father-in-law)†
* Coral Makos(mother-in-law)†
* Naver Galeore (ex-fiancé and brother-in-law)†
* Clenton Barley-Wharrow(neice)

## Professional information

#### Loyalty

* Pearly Guard
* The Free Republic of Fontmore

#### Alias(s)

* Maria Totales (former)
* The Changing Girl
* Little Changer Girl
* Quartz Queen
* Mary Galeore (married name)

#### Allies

* Warren Killora
* Mevouris Galeore

#### Enemies

* Obsidian Houses
* Naver Galeore
* Elena Vernando

## Biography

### Red Queen

Mary was born and raised in the Grendels by her mother Ruby and father David. She grew up in a poor Quartz family, destined to serve the Obsidian elites, nobles with obsidian blood and various superhuman abilities. She has three older brothers, Tree, Dami, and Glare, as well as a younger sister Piza.

Growing up, Mary was especially close to her brother Glare but often felt jealous of Piza, who was a skilled talior. Mary turned to thieving in order to help support her family, stealing what she could to help them get by. A few months before her 21st birthday, her lifelong childhood friend Warren Killora loses his job, which means he will be conscripted into the army when his birthday comes in a couple of weeks. Determined to keep him safe, Mary makes a deal with a Obsidian Guard operative, Captain Barley, to buy them both their freedom.

In order to acquire the absurd amount of money to pay for their passage, Mary gambles everything on sneaking into the Obsidian city of Winterorn with Piza in hopes that she could steal the money she needed. However, during this time, the Obsidian Guard bombs Blackwater Palace, causing chaos and uproar to ensue in the Winterorn Market. Maryand her sister are forced to flee for their safety without the money, leading Piza to attempt to steal from a Obsidian on their way out, getting caught, and having her sewing hand shattered beyond repair as punishment.

Guilt-racked, Mary sneaks out at night and headed to a pub at the edge of town, stumbling into Gale. He gives her half of the money she needs and promises to get her a good-paying job working at the Hall of the Moon. It is here Mary first meets Amy Welsh and attends the Queenstrial, discovering that Gale is Prince Mevouris IV in the process. It is also here that she makes an astonishing discovery.

While Mary is serving the Silver lords and ladies, one of the girls competing in the Queenstrial destabilizes the spectator stands, causing Mary to fall onto the electric purple shield covering the arena. But instead of getting fried to pieces, she falls to the floor unharmed, bringing her face-to-face with a very astonished and angry Ellanorra Rhavos. After getting over the initial shock and almost blasting Ellanorra directly with her changer abilities, Mary attempts to escape, only to be cornered by Gale and the other Centeniel guards.

Mary wakes up inside a cell in the Throne Room, with Queen Elena Vernando standing over her. Elena informs her that she has just finished reading her entire life and that they now must decide what to do about her, a lowly Quartz servant with Obsidian abilities. After a short debate, King Mevouris forces Mary to live as the "long-lost" Maria Totales and promises her to his youngest son, Prince Naver.

At the palace, among the nobility, Mary struggles to become a proper lady while maintaining her cover, juggling the Pearly Guard, and contending with her growing feelings for both princes. Her main source of comfort are her lessons with Elias Makos, a singer and the brother to the deceased former queen, Coral Makos. He helps her learn more about her abilities while providing her a place to be herself without the watchful eyes of the cameras.

Mary also begins training with the other Obsidian teenagers, under the instruction of the powerful silent, Raven Arden. She learns how to calculate advantages in a fight, and gets to see Gale display his strength as a burner and a soldier. During one of these training sessions, Ellanora challenges Mary to a duel, which ends up in a draw and with Mary bleeding. Naver rushes her away so that no one has time to see her Quartz blood, while Gale prevents anybody from following them out of the room.

Mary directs Naver to take her to Elias, to which Naver grudgingly obliges. It becomes clear that Elias does not trust Naver one bit, though Mary turns a deaf ear as to what the reasons might be. Mary also meets Sariah Lokornos, a skin healer and trusted friend of Elias, who suffered Elena's wrath and had her tongue removed for knowing too much about Coral's death.

But her love for Naver is destroyed when he betrays both her and Gale by standing to the side while Elena makes Gale kill their father and taking the throne in Gale's place. Both she and Gale are imprisoned and nearly executed but are rescued by the Pearly Guard. At the end of the story, they both vow to kill Naver.