Brinley

> No. No. It’s not fair. We didn’t have any time.
>
> Brinley, to her dying mother

**Brinley Archer** is the protagonist of the *Magemother series*, and the current Magemother. She is the daughter of late Lewilyn and Archibald, and the adopted daughter of Benjamin Archer. After hearing a mysterious bell ringing, Brinley is swept away to the magical realm of Aberdeen, where she sets on a quest to find the missing Magemother, along with Prince Hugo, and Tabitha.

## Personality

At the beginning of the series, Brinley is a rather shy person, so she usually avoids social contact with other people, using her "special talent" of being invisible.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Magic:** prior to becoming the Magemother, Brinley was already able to perform magic up to some degree. Later in the series, she learns more and improves her magical abilities.
	+ **Invisibily:** upon arriving at Aberdeen, scared and feeling out-of-place, Brinley instinctively turns herself invisible. She returns to normal once she stops trying to hide, never using this ability again.
	+ **Instinct:** Brinley is able to feel when something is wrong in her surroundings, like a cat caught in mousetrap or someone crying.
	+ **Melding****:** as the Magemother, Brinley can go inside any of the mages's minds by focusing on them as strongly as possible and opening her heart to them completely (something Brinley herself said to be the "hardest part". She gains the ability to see through the mage's eyes and feel their emotions, but is not able to inflence them in any way.
	+ **Memory Storing:** Brinley was taught by Cassis on how to feel the life of a stone and place memories and feelings inside it. She used this ability to find Chantra, and to gift Hugo a feeling of peace.

## History

Brinley was born in Aberdeen to Lewilyn, the Magemother, and Archibald, the king's advisor. Afraid of what Lux Tennebris (who was losing control over his dark half at the time) might do to her, Lewilyn hid her in Earth, not even telling Archibald about it. Benjamin Archer, having gone to Morley Church looking for the ringing bell that had woken him, found baby Brinley sleeping in a basket and took her with him. He eventually adopted her.

### The Mage and the Magpie

Brinley lives with her father in Colorado, USA, near the abandoned town of Morley. She spends her Summer break in the mountain side, drawing and playing with her own imagination.

## Relationships

### Love Interests

#### Prince Hugo

It is implied in the series that Prince Hugo and Brinley have a crush on each other.

### Family

* Lewilyn
* Archibald
* Ben Archer

Lewilyn was Brinley's biological mother. When Brinley was a baby, Lewilyn hid Brinley on Earth in order to protect her.

In the first book, Brinley told Lewilyn that she would be the Magemother, but Lewilyn had to try to live. Brinley then summoned Habis who put Lewilyn in a naptrap.

Archibald is Brinley's biological father. In The Empty Throne, he told Tabitha that he hadn't told Brinley that Archiblad was her father because Brinley already had a father.

In the epilogue of the last book, Brinley was still getting used to the fact that Archibald was her father, but she had started to love him like one.
Ben Archer is Brinley's adopted father. He found her at the old church where Lewilyn left Brinley and adopted her.

### Friends

* Tabitha
* Animus
* Belterras
* Chantra
* Unda
* Lignumis
* Cannon
* Habis

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## References

1. ↑ The Mage and the Magpie, Chapter One
2. ↑ The Mage and the Magpie, Chapter Five
3. ↑ The Mage and the Magpie, Chapter Thirty-One
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Paradise Twin, Chapter One
5. ↑ The Paradise Twin, Chapter Eleven
6. ↑ The Paradise Twin, Chapter Seventeen