Ithalia

### Additional Desc.

ears slightly too large and too angular.facial features were sharp, their lips thin yet softly-rounded.

## Book Appearances

### Books

* The Spellmonger's Honeymoon
* Magelord
* High Mage
* Journeymage,
* Court Wizard
* Necromancer
* Thaumaturge
* Arcanist

### Short Stories

* Victory Soup
* The Spellmonger's Honeymoon

YA = \* Sky Rider

## Overview

A leader among the Alka, and emissary to Castalshar through the auspices of Sevendor. She first met Minalan mind-to-mind in the midst of a battle. She would then meet on the field after alongside Onranion.

Her efforts to work out the details of transgenic enchantments on Frightful led to her working with Dara and Lilastien. This enchantment work led her to become the second best Alka Alon in the field of Transgenics after Lilastien chose to work exclusively with Humani. She began working on side projects for the council after the fall of Anthatiel.

## Personality and Characteristics

While among the Humani she transforms into a human like form that is stunningly beautiful and about 6' tall.

Of the 3 emissaries she is generally the most helpful with guiding Minalan or in answering his questions.

## Family and Relationships

Her grandmother is Lilastien an Alka Alon rebel also known as the The Sorceress of Sartha Wood.

## Summary

### Victory Soup

Ithalia and several kindred Alka were beset by gurvani in the wilderness of Alshar. The band of Alka stopped at a hidden Alkan Cache to resupply and rest. They were attacked by a small troop of goblins. The shaman kept a constant barrage of spells and ordered goblins to attack the tree fortification.

Minalan and his successful but tired troops noticed the battle as they returned home from Timberwatch. Minalan negotiated with Ithalia a battle plan that would let them escape as the shamans were distracted. Ithalia instead chose to lead two of her fellows in a counter offensive to assist Minalan's few forces as the goblins began to overrun them.

Ithalia blessed Onranion’s action to upgrade Minalan’s witch stone into a sphere of great power.

### Spellmonger's Honeymoon

Ithalia waylays Minalan and Alya and takes them to see her Grandmother, Lilastien.

Ithalia warned Minalan that Alkan politics was divided on Minalan keeping his newly minted Witch Sphere. They spoke mind-to-mind during Minalan’s river cruise. The discussion they held covered topics such as transgenics, the nature of the five Alkan Kindred, and the Humani divinity. During the second day’s conversation, Ithalia asked he deviate his course to visit a respected academic figure on all things Human; The Sorceress of Sartha Wood.

She did acknowledge the Alkan mistress of Sartha Wood, Lilastien, as her grandmother. The purpose of the visit was to justify Humani using irionite through Lilastien’s examination of both Minalan and his wife.

Ithalia helped Lilastien in her examination. After the attack of an Enshadowed Alka Alon and his defeat, she helped to clean up and hide the evidence of Enshadowed involvement. On her recommendation Alya and Minalan chose to forget the details of their honeymoon in an effort to hide from the Enshadowed.

### Magelord

In Magelord she is one of the three emissaries of the Alka Alon to Sevendor to study Snowstone. They appear in their larger Transgenic forms that are the essence of humani, but more beautiful and taller then normal humani females.

### High Mage

Ithalia helps to transport Minalan and his party to the Alka Alon Council meeting and to return them.

### Skyrider

Helps coordinate the Giant Hawk transgenic experiment with Dara and her grandmother, Lillastien. The work is crucial to putting forth the Cadre of Sky Riders as a solution against Dragons.

### Journeymage

Ithalia helped plan the Great march only in part before leaving to work for the Alkan Council. In that time, she taught Minalan to use the Witch Sphere and its enchantments to travel via the Alkan Ways.

She was recalled only long enough to help examine Minalan after his collapse towards the end of the Journey. Ithalia reluctantly allowed him to return to the field, but insisted he rode that he rode on horseback after he returned to the march.

### Court Wizard

Ithalia searched the wilderness with Arborn, for Ameras, but the search proves to be unfruitful. Ithalia brought Arbor and Armendra through the ways to Antimei’s croft.

### Necromancer

Lady Ithalia helped in the razing of Tudry. She and a band of Terra Alon were key to stopping the pursuing hobgoblins from focusing on the retreating forces.

Ladies Ithalia and Varen were given the two dragon eggs found in the Sevendor dragon corpse. Minalan left them to choose whether to hatch the eggs or not.

### Thaumaturge

Ithalia both encouraged and led the Tera Alon in mixing their cultures with the Humani of Vanador. She is frustrated with the new and untested transformed Alon. She comes to Minalin for help and he invites her to send her people to Vanador for training, and invites her to command them.

She also led the Tera Alon forces against Gaja Katar’s army during the defense of Spellgate. At first she doesn't understand why she should follow Terleman's commands, but Minalan convinces her that if she is going to fight with Humani, she must learn how to follow commands the way the Humani do.

### Arcanist

Ithalia appears with two wings of Sky Riders, 40 in total, at a crucial point in the battle against Korbal’s minions in the War of Spring.  In secret at the urging of Lord Letharan she had transformed and trained their own hawks, somewhat bigger and faster then the previous transgenic birds and recruited Tera Alon riders.  The Tera Alon sky riders ride in their natural form though, not the larger transgenic forms.

Both Terelman and Dara are upset about not knowing about the Tera Alon sky riders before hand. Even though Ithalia's riders were helpful neither one of them truly got over their pique at the Alon's not informing them before suddenly appearing.

## References

1. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Arcanist: Book Twelve of the Spellmonger Series (p. 486). Kindle Edition.