Fluri the Mouse-Maiden

**Fluri the Mouse-Maiden** was an Unseelie mouse shifter, as well as a Master Mage and member of the Raven Prince's Inner Court. She is the grandmother of Fenwrel the Mouse-Maiden, and the great-grandmother of Yukti, Vilasini, Zrimat, Uday, and Suvidh. She was demoted by Augus Each Uisge, and ultimately assassinated.

## Appearance

### Status

* Underfae
* Inner Court (former)

As a mouse shifter, she has bare feet with mouse toes, a long mouse tail, and mouse ears, even in human form. Her movements possess quiet grace and self control. Her energy signature is described as heavy and unsubtle.

## Personality

Fluri is astute, ambitious, blunt and perceptive. She has a 'particular kind of undivided attention that was at once both welcome and frightening.'

## Life

Fluri is one of the Raven Prince's Inner Court, and a formidable Master Mage from the School of the Staff. Before Fluri, no other mouse-maiden had ever been a Master Mage. She teaches Augus in the use of meridians and pressure points during his time as the Raven Prince's advisor.

Her family line was well-known as a Court family and a member of the Unseelie noblesse, until Augus removes her status and forces her back to underfae status during his reign as King. Despite this, she still speaks out on his behalf, and is opposed to killing him. She even convinces her granddaughter, Fenwrel, to her side.

Fluri is murdered by an assassin at some point during or before the events of *Game Theory*.

## Special Abilities

### Magical Propensity

**Meridians:** Fluri specialises in meridian magic and is an expert in pressure point combat.

**Language:** Fenwrel implies that she learned how to manipulate language (e.g., taking it away) through Fluri, who learned it from the Raven Prince, so it's likely that Fluri is trained in the removal of language, at least temporarily.

## Relationships

### Augus Each Uisge

Fluri teaches Augus how to use pressure points and understand meridians. Fluri is very fond of Augus, and believes he is poisoned, due to his meridians being blocked, rather than his being simply evil, and she is one of the few to publicly advocate for him, even after he demotes her and her family to Underfae. She speaks of him with obvious affection. Fluri knew that Augus had done terrible things, and had nightmares. Augus seems to think warmly of her.

### Fenwrel the Mouse-Maiden

Fluri's granddaughter follows in her grandmother's footsteps, including advocating for Augus. Fluri is heavily influential in convincing Fenwrel to advocate for Augus, as well.

#### The Raven Prince

Fenwrel said that Fluri 'admired and adored the Raven Prince, and she was ever so loyal to him, but she thought of him as a wayward nephew. A wise, powerful but... wayward soul.' Fenwrel said Fluri's stories of him were frightening, describing a 'mad creature who could take away other people's language in a fit of pique.'

## Quotations

* Fenwrel: 'She explained that his meridians were – to put it bluntly – blocked like a sump from the beginning.'
* 'Well, Each Uisge,’ Fenwrel said, without turning around, ‘my grandmother also said that you take offense at every little thing.'
* Fenwrel: 'My grandmother did amazing things while she was here.'
* Fenwrel: 'When your grandmother bossed around the Raven Prince, it makes you grow up with an odd lack of appropriate humility.'

## Trivia

* Even though Augus doesn't like to dance in public, he once dances with Fluri, who was drunk on *passum*, and he didn't have the heart to tell her no.
* When Fenwrel begs for asylum, she says, 'My grandmother, her surviving children and my... my sons and daughters', implying that Fluri has more than one child.
* Fluri and Gwyn met at least once, and Fluri spoke of it to Fenwrel.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 19 September 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/5127665. Chapter 10: Battlefields.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 2 January 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/6705320. Chapter 24: Listen.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 18 June 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/4283271. Chapter 4: Suspicions.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 11 November 2017. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/28924812. Chapter 7: A Tender Mercy.
5. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 4 October 2013. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/1956504. Chapter 17: Suffocation.
6. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 12 February 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/7302011. Chapter 30: Gravity.
7. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 1 October 2013. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/1947734. Chapter 16: Rollercoaster.
8. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 31 January 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/2083339. Chapter 26: Family.
9. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 23 January 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/7005020. Chapter 27: Healing.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 12 June 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/9291202. Chapter 47: Redirection.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 28 August 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/10665527. Chapter 58: Hope.
12. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 24 October 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/5561123. Chapter 15: Blight.