Lirienne

## Books

### Books Appeared In

Cast in Courtlight, Cast in Peril, Cast in Sorrow, Cast in Honor, Cast in Deception, Sword and Shadow

Referred to throughout the books as Lord of the West March, Lirienne is part of the equivalent of the Barrani"royal family", and holds dominion over the vast forested West March, including its many Hallionne and the site of the crucial Regalia.

## **Books**

He enters the narrative after magical poison places him in a coma, and Kaylin enters his consciousness (or possibly finds his spirit wandering in the Outlands using the Marks of the Chosen), finds his True Name, and using it to awaken him. In gratitude, he names her Kyuthe (family), and gives her a magical ring. We later learn this is an atypical reaction for Barrani, who view obligation as a dangerous weakness in their defenses. He later presents her at court, then asks her to help his brother, Lord of the Green (later High Lord) who is magically compromised by someone who knows his True Name. After she passes the Test of Names, he helps her expel ferals from the High Halls, confirm the High Lord and his sister as the new Consort.

He sends his regards to Kaylin through his siblings when Kaylin later visits the High Halls for information about an increase of one-off ferals escaping Ravellon. This conversation also reveals that their father had tried to manipulate Lirienne into killing his brother, the current High Lord.

When Teela explains what happened in her childhood Regalia that led to the deaths of her parents and the creation of the Cohort, Lirienne's relative compassion and sense of justice is contrasted to that of the Lord of the West March at the time. Later, when Kaylin is trapped inside the root of Hallionne Orbaranne with its girl avatar, he appears to the two of them and embraces them, helps them return to the world and name-bind Lord Ynpharion. His tenderness to the sentient building provides insight Kaylin needs much later to understand and ally with the renegade shadow Gilbert.

He personally escorts the party through the forest to Hallionne Alsanis, organizing defenses when a wall of darkness and bodiless winged creatures threaten. Within the Hallionne, he helps Kaylin negotiate the difficult etiquette of Barrani banquets and obligations, including refusing to let her heal his sister the Consort because of the politically fraught obligations that would result. When it becomes clear that Kaylin's magical intervention is needed, he is part of the group that is trapped at the heart of the Hallionne, with Teela, Nightshade, Iberrienne and the Dream Eagles of Alsanis. After Kaylin invokes a water elemental to escape that plane, he helps her enter the Regalia as Harmoniste, eventually resulting in the freeing of the Cohort.

When Kaylin is in a trans-temporal outland storm, trying to heal the timeline and save the city, he is among the name-bound who anchor her to the reality she chooses.

When a water elemental unexpectedly teleports Kaylin and dragon Bellusdeo to Hallionne Orbaranne, the Lord of the West March gives them shelter throughout the subsequent political crisis, despite dragons being hereditary enemies of the Barrani and unwelcome in Hallionne for centuries. He attempts to negotiate with the misguided Barrani war band, though they try to make it appear he called for them.

## References

1. ↑ Ch. 4-6, Cast in Courtlight
2. ↑ Ch. 10-11, Cast in Courtlight
3. ↑ Ch. 17-20, Cast in Courtlight
4. ↑ Ch. 13-14, Cast in Silence
5. ↑ Ch. 14-16, Cast in Peril
6. ↑ Ch. 30-31, Cast in Peril
7. ↑ Ch. 26, Cast in Honor
8. ↑ Ch. 1-3, Cast in Sorrow
9. ↑ Ch. 4-7, Cast in Sorrow
10. ↑ Ch. 10-17, Cast in Sorrow
11. ↑ Ch. 21-23, Cast in Sorrow
12. ↑ Ch. 29, Cast in Honor
13. ↑ Ch. 11-19, Cast in Deception
14. ↑ Ch. 17-22, Cast in Deception