Vhadi

**Vhadi** was an Unseelie fae, and the son of Adali and Ifir, eldest sibling to Eran Iliakambar, Ada, and Adalia, and nephew to Ambari and Iliak. He was killed when the ice plague smothered his home.

## Personality

Eran thinks that if he'd stolen Mosk Manytrees away to his home, Vhadi would have liked Mosk's 'reserved introspection'. Eran wonders if it was hard for Vhadi to 'kill Seelie fae and delight in it, and come home to Seelie family and delight in that too'. Eran also said his brother was lazy, which the rest of the family let him get away with.

## Life

Vhadi is Eran's older brother, and Adali and Ifir's eldest son. He is a warrior who fought Seelie fae. Vhadi is the only one of their family besides Ifir to be Unseelie. Eran thinks that Vhadi was 'a far finer fighter than he was'.

Vhadi was killed by the ice plague with the rest of his family, save Eran.

## Relationships

#### Eran Iliakambar

Eran said that 'Vhadi and I were never that close . . . But sometimes Vhadi would decide to cook tahdig because he never thought mother made enough.' According to Eran, Vhadi didn't quite know how to treat Eran, as Eran is Seelie. Sometimes, Eran would massage Vhadi's shoulders 'back when he returned from battle, even if [they] were at odds and didn’t always know how to speak without fighting'. Eran is ashamed that he thinks more of his sisters than Vhadi.

#### Ifir

Vhadi and his father would confer over their fights with Seelie, and potentially found strength in each other, as they were the only two Unseelie in their immediate family (outside Iliak) who were also charged with killing Seelie fae.

## Trivia

* Eran seemingly watched his brother die.
* As Eran is 222 at the start of *The Ice Plague*: *Book 1 - The Forest of Fire*, and Vhadi was Eran's older brother, Vhadi was probably more than 222 years old.
* Vhadi liked 'little fiery aniseed-mints'.

## Folklore/Mythology

In Islamic mythology, the marid are a type of Shaitan, or evil spirit, whose name comes from the word for rebellious or recalcitrant. They are sometimes referred to interchangeably with the afrit, also known as the ifrit, efreet, or afreet, who are a powerful type of demon.

Afrit are well known underworld demonic figures from Islamic mythology. Despite being associated with the word jinn (djinn), they have been considered separate beings from each other in Moroccan and and other cultures. Whereas in Fae Tales they are rolled into one kind of fae with different subspecies.

The use of the word djinn indicates that marid-djinn are connected to more stereotypical genies, and the djinn of mythology.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 13 July 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/35433111. Chapter 24: Blessings in Disguise.
2. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 17 March 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/94345423. Chapter 28: Family.
3. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 21 October 2017. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/28296177. Chapter 5: Animosity.
4. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 2 April 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/56194975. Chapter 29: Fury Unleashed.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 19 July 2019. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/47044390. Chapter 10: Veils.
6. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 23 December 2021. https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/89500210. Chapter 22: Just For Us.
7. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 9 September 2017. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/27249219. Chapter 1: The End of the Hunt.
8. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 11 November 2021. https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/87334006. Chapter 19: Golden Bonds.
9. ↑ "Marid". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marid. Accessed 1 May 2021.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Ifrit". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifrit. Accessed 1 May 2021.