Alcippe Feyir

**Alcippe Feyir** is a high-ranking Amaz warrior and an Urisk.

## Physical Description

Alcippe is massive in size and always carries her rune-axe with her. She is very tall, broad, and muscular. Her coloring is rose-white and she has pointed ears. Her rose hair is short and spiked, later it grows longer and she wears it tied up in multiple knots. "Her face is densely tattooed with small, circular runes, giving her skin the appearance of having scales." She has a strong, square chin. Her eyes are rose-quartz in color. She speaks in a low, resonant voice. She resembles her father.

## Personality

Alcippe is the Amaz's most formidable warrior. She has an aggressive posture and can be quite threatening. She hates men with a fierce passion. She is also heavily traumatized from her upbringing and full of a lot of pain that she hides behind anger. Despite no one ever seeing her smile, Alcippe is a favorite of the Amaz children. She is actually a "warrior with thee heart of a mountain lion." She is a patient weapons teacher with children.

## Biography

### Early History

Alcippe is the daughter of Farg Kyul, one of the strongest and most ruthless Urisk commanders during the Realm War. He was one of the few lower-class Urisk to be granted dragonlord status. Alcippe's mother Sala loved her daughter a great deal and did her best to shelter her from her father's abuse. By the time Alcippe was ten, she was courageously throwing herself between her mother and father to try and protect her mother from his fierce blows. When Alcippe was twelve, she returned from tending their livestock and found Sala unconscious on the floor with blood streaming from her nose and ear and her eyes swollen shut. Alcippe quickly gathered some food, bundled them both up, and at nightfall left their home carrying her mother over her shoulder. She traveled on foot for two month until reaching the Amaz lands. Sala and Alcippe were half-starved. Before collapsing from exhaustion, she requested that the Amaz turn Sala into a warrior. But Sala never completely recovered. Alcippe refused to believe that her mother couldn't recover enough to become a warrior.

Alcippe put all her energy into learning the ways of the Amaz and becoming a warrior herself. She kept trying to teach her mother, guiding her hands around a bow and coaxing heer to grasp a spear, but her mother always become afraid and ran back to the kitchen to do the tasks she had been required to do for the Kyul family.

After a long time, Alcippe became one of the fiercest, most powerful soldiers the Amaz has ever had. When she turned eighteen she recieved her warrior marks and her new name from the queen. Alcippe immediately took her rune-axe and rode off on her horse to go to her father. She returned weeks later with Fang Kyul's head. She threw her father's head at the feet of her mother. When her mother still wouldn't heal and become a warrior, Alcippe fell apart. She even tried to take a knife to her face to cut away the resemblance to her father. Her partner, Skyleia, managed to keep her from doing so. Alcippe eventually became a member of the Queen's Guard, the Amaz's elite fighting force. She also is a weapons teacher to the Amaz children.

### The Iron Flower

Alcippe is part of the Amaz guard that intercepts Elloren Gardner and her friends at the Amaz border. When Elloren says that Clive Soren told them to seek out Freyja, Alcippe shoots Freyja a murderous look. She makes a point of threatening Gareth, Trystan, and especially Rafe, with killing them if they step one foot over their border. Alcippe clearly despises Elloren.

Alcippe attempts to override Freyja's decision and refuses to let Elloren speak with Queen Alkaia. Diana threatens to kill her and Alcippe threatens her back. Valasca and Marina convince Alcippe to step aside as they are there for Marina's sake.

Elloren only gets to see Alcippe's softer side when the warrior insists on adopting the Gardnerian Icaral girl that Elloren and Yvan rescued from the Valgard Sanitorium.

### The Shadow Wand

Alcippe has been dedicated to raising the rescued Icaral child, who has been named Pyrgomanche Feyir.

## Powers & Abilities

She is a fierce rune-warrior. She speaks multiple languages, including Uriskal and the Common Tongue.

## Relationships

### Sala

Alcippe and Sala have a fraught relationship. Sala loves her daughter dearly and tried to protect her from her father's abuse. When Alcippe was big enough, she began trying to protect her mother from the abuse. Alcippe seemed to believe that even after they escaped to the Amaz Territory, Sala was under the influence of some spell and that by presenting her with her husband's head it would finally free her mother to heal, grow strong, and become a warrior. When Sala actually grieved the death of her husband, Alcippe completely fell apart.

### Skyleia

Skyleia and Alcippe became friends after Alcippe arrived in the Amaz Territory. When Alcippe lost her senses after her mother grieved the death of her husband, Alcippe tried to carve off her face so she didn't resemble her father. Skyleia was the one to convince her not to do so. "She stayed with Alcippe day and night, never wavering in her devotion." Afterwards, they became inseparable lovers. Skyleia convinced Alcippe to tattoo her face so dramattically instead of disguring herself. Skyleia even applied the rune markings herself.

## References

1. ↑ *The Iron Flower*: page 316
2. ↑ *The Iron Flower*: page 350
3. ↑ *The Iron Flower*: page 349