Pavalo Temin

**Pavalo Temin** ran a school for foundling girls in Cemchelarna, as well as a blackmail scheme that also abused the girls, and served as one of the primary antagonists for *The Grief of Stones.*

## Appearance

When Thara Celehar first met Pavalo, she "was a middle-aged elven lady, beautifully dressed and perfectly coiffed, with long tashin sticks like daggers through the bun at the back of her head. There was nothing remarkable about her face, except perhaps for a certain hardness in her eyes."

## Personality

In the local community around Pavalo's school, she was known as "unfriendly, haughty, as if her rank precluded her from having to be polite", but she paid her bills on time and fully. She was greedy, cruel, and abused children, and seemingly lacked empathy.

## Life

Pavalo's father devoted his life to the study of the history of the Hill of Werewolves, and located the entrance to the tomb beneath, but never went inside because of the revethavar. Pavalo kept his work in the hopes of obtaining the alleged treasure beneath for herself.

Ten years prior to *The Grief of Stones*, Pavalo's uncle disowned her.

Five years prior to *The Grief of Stones*, while Pavalo worked on the Cemchelarna Foundling School Board, she made the foundlings "pay her to find them positions", *and* made the employers pay her for finding employees. When Tomilo Ulzhavel found out, she threatened to go to the newspapers unless Pavalo resigned. Although Pavalo's actions were not illegal, it was unethical, and the Cemchelarna Foundling School Board agreed on that, and forced Pavalo to resign.

At some point after Pavalo's resignation, she began running the Cemchelarna School for Foundling Girls. She took Anvina Renthalar as her lover. They later came up with the scheme where Anvina took pornographic photos of the girls to sell for his and Pavalo's gain, and Pavalo blackmailed the girls into silence, with the threat of no food and that she'd give the photos to the judiciary, which would send the girls to jail. Pavalo even threatened to kill them. Eventually one of the girls, Tedoro, became Pavalo's errand-runner, and would pressure new girls to pose for photos.

Three months and three days prior to the events of *The Grief of Stones*, Pavalo took photos that Anvina had taken of Esmeän Tativin, Tomilo's secretary, and handed them to Tomilo. Esmeän panicked and murdered Tomilo because of it.

Thara first visited Pavalo during his investigation into Tomilo's murder. Pavalo professed her innocence, but was called away by Tedoro, allowing the girl to slip Thara a note asking for his help. Pavalo later had Tedoro murdered by Horthena Renthalar, and arranged for her burial as quickly as possible, but not before Thara was able to get Iäna Pel-Thenhior to request a Witnessing for her.

Thara and Velhiro Tomasaran returned to the school to investigate Tedoro's murder. Pavalo was surprised and a bit annoyed, but allowed Thara to question the girls and teachers.

Pavalo attended Tedoro's funeral along with the other school students and teachers. When Thara and Velhiro returned to the school to continue their investigation, Pavalo took them prisoner, and threatened Thara with Velhiro's death if Thara didn't help her obtain the alleged treasure in the Hill of Werewolves. Pavalo was killed by the revethavar there. The Temada wanted nothing to do with her burial.

## Relationships

#### Anvina Renthalar

Pavalo's lover, who came up with the photography scheme with her.

#### Merrem Caltavezharan

Pavalo bullied and threatened Caltavezharan into silence over the photography and blackmail scheme.

#### Othas'ala Delemar

Delemar would talk with Pavalo sometimes, and disapproved of her wards' complaints about their conditions, and supported Pavalo training them to be good workers.

#### Horthena Renthalar

Horthena was the man Pavalo used for her dirty work, including murdering Tedoro.

#### Min Orbelin

Orbelin was Pavalo's second-in-command at the school, and took a share of the proceeds from the photography scheme.

#### Min Tesavin

Tesavin was likely one of Pavalo's co-conspirators.

#### Osmer Temar

Temar refused to have Pavalo even mentioned in the Temada compound.

#### Thara Celehar

Thara immediately powerfully disliked Pavalo on their first meeting, before they'd even spoken, and his opinion only grew worse when he learned how much she abused her charges. Pavalo saw Thara as a nuisance, but also a means to an end. She was the reason he burned out by forcing him to confront the revethavar.

#### Tomilo Ulzhavel

Pavalo was angry at Tomilo for insisting Pavalo resign for having her wards pay her to find them jobs.

#### Velhiro Tomasaran

Velhiro seemed impatient with Pavalo, and annoyed that Pavalo was so focused on who had petitioned for Tedoro. Velhiro also hated her for threatening herself and Thara.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Addison, Katherine. *The Grief of Stones*, First ed., Tor, 2022.