Eleanora Andarielle

**Eleanora Andarielle** is the daughter of Gregory the Gray, a senior Magicker, and a teacher at Camp Ravenwyng and Iron Mountain Academy. Little is known about her early life, other than that she assisted her father in instructing his students. Following the war between Gregory and Antoine Brennard, she, like many of her peers, was thrown into a magickal coma and awakened sometime in the latter half of the twentieth century (around the 1990s). Afterwards, she

## Biography

### Early Life

Eleanora was born to Gregory the Gray and an unknown mother sometime in the early 1600s. As Gregory's daughter, she was exposed to magick for her entire childhood, and was presumably raised with the intention that she would succeed him someday.

Eleanora first met Gavan Rainwater in her early twenties, when he was just sixteen years old. Being several years older than he, she tolerated his affections for her with patience and good humor, but did not reciprocate them. Her father seemed to believe that the match was not doomed to fail, however, and did not discourage Gavan from pursuing her.

She, along with most other Magickers in the world, was sent into a several hundred year long coma following her father's duel with Brennard. She awakened relatively late from a comparative standpoint, nearly two decades after the first Magickers began to revive.

## Personality

Eleanora is kind and soft-spoken, but has a quick wit and is unafraid to speak her mind. She favors compromise over quarrel and has a diplomatic nature, going so far as to suggest to Gavan that there is still a chance they can reconcile with the Dark Hand in *The Dragon Guard*.

## Appearance

Eleanora is described as a slender, petite young woman with long, curly dark brown hair and dark eyes. She draws inspiration for her wardrobe from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and is most commonly found wearing a lacy blouse over a floor-length skirt. She also appears to favor cameos, as she is mentioned wearing one several times.

She has implied that she is insecure about (or at least slightly annoyed by) her diminutive stature, and often utilizes some of her magickal energy to levitate herself a few inches off the ground — a fact usually concealed by her long skirts. Jason notes that, when standing normally, the top of her head is roughly even with his chin, putting her height somewhere around 4'10" or 4'11".

## Relationships

### Gavan Rainwater

Gavan is easily the most significant person in Eleanora's life; the two share a long personal history, and their long-standing platonic relationship develops over the course of the series into one of a romantic nature. Their profound love for one another is plainly evident in their mutual actions,

#### Personal History

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> "'Such a romantic you are!' Eleanora ducked out from under his chin, and swung around to look up at him. She kissed a fingertip and pressed her delicate hand to his mouth."
> —**The Dragon Guard**, "Things Unsaid"
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Eleanora first met Gavan when she was around twenty-one or twenty-two, five or six years older than he. At the time, he was still her father's apprentice, and was instantly (and unsubtly) taken with her. How Eleanora felt about him remains something of a mystery, but Gavan implies that, although she was tolerant of his affections, she did not reciprocate them, and seemed wholly disinterested in the idea of courting and suitors. As Gregory's daughter, she was likely poised to succeed him, and to this end evidently took a deeper interest in her magickal studies than in finding a spouse.

This changed, however, when Gregory and Brennard's duel sent both, along with many other Magickers, into a coma which would last for several hundred years. Eleanora regained consciousness several years after Gavan, who had "...awakened first, matured, grown, and, upon finding her, was no longer the love-struck youth he'd been." Once awakened, Eleanora assisted Gavan in his efforts to find and revive their lost peers, and as their acquaintanceship grew into friendship, she began to see him in a different light.

It was presumably during this period of time that Eleanora fell in love with Gavan, though both were concerned with the restoration of the Magicker order and did not discuss their feelings for some time.

### FireAnn

1. ↑ *The Gate of Bones,* p. 222 (paperback)