Churielle

"*Silly boy . . . Even fae who aren’t drowners love to drown something from the land just for the fun of it.*"
―Churielle[[The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas, Chapter 24: Bound Together]]

## Physical description

### Hair color

Pale green

**Churielle** is a mari morgan who resided on the Mantissa.

## Appetite

Churielle was seen eating cooked fish, raw meat, and baked bones, but it's unclear what her true appetite is.

## Appearance

Churielle had long, shining, pale green hair, and wore three bulky coats when Eran Iliakambar and Mosk Manytrees first met her.

Mari morgan are compelled to drown fae and humans, so out of respect to other fae, mari morgan tie one hand behind their back to show they mean no harm. Thus, Churielle also did this when seen in *The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas*.

In her true form, she grows 'colourful red-brown kelp' from her hands, wrists, and ankles, and her eyes are 'a lambent red-brown, like rubies'.

## Personality

'Mosk thought that she was probably a very good drowner, all joy and friendliness and luring the lustful to their doom.'

Churielle seemed kind and playful around Mosk and Eran, and clearly enjoyed seeing them explore the sea.

## Life

Churielle was a non-crewmember on the Mantissa who hung out with Eran, Mosk, and other fae while the former were on the Mantissa. Churielle told them about the Sea of Sculptures and liked answering Mosk and Eran's questions about the sea and its politics. She invited both Eran and Mosk to go swimming near a coral reef. When Mosk came with her, she served as translator for the other sea fae who accompanied them.

## Relationships

#### Eran Iliakambar

Eran liked her. She also tried to help him when Stertes took Eran's fire away.

## Quotations

* 'We must be like nothing, to you,’ Mosk said, feeling stupid. ‘You have all of that.’ Churielle beamed at him, and she didn’t disagree.'
* 'The thing is . . . the Mantissa might be a warship, but she’s not like…about *war*.'
* 'Listen, you’re nice enough, but no one likes the Unseelie King at the moment. Putting the life of a member of his Inner Court that we don’t give a toss about, over all of our lives? And the Each Uisge isn’t *dying*, but…we might.'

## Folklore/Mythology

'Morgens, morgans, or **mari-morgans** are Welsh and Breton water spirits that drown men. . . . In Brittany, the formation "mari-morgan" or "mary-morgan" is common. Sébillot compared the Mari Morgan to "sirènes" (the French term for mermaids), who lured sailors with their hypnotic voices and sat in the water to comb their hair seductively. They were believed to live near coasts, at cave entrances and at the mouths of rivers, with some held to still inhabit a cave near Crozon. The mari-morgans, who were well-versed in evil spells, would drag young men underwater and the men would never be seen again. In some versions, however, Mari Morgans carried kidnapped sailors to underwater palaces of mother-of-pearl and crystal, and married them. The morgens, eternally young, are also blamed for heavy flooding that destroys crops or villages.

. . . In a parallel tradition from Ushant, an island off the coast of Brittany, are legends of beautiful water-dwelling little people known as morganed (male plural) and morganezed (female plural). In one story, an ugly old morgen king kidnapped a human girl to be his bride, but she fell in love with his handsome young son who helped her escape. In another tale, the morganed people helped the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus and received the blessing of beauty, while in another the morganezed habitually dried their golden treasures on the sunlit beach and might give some to humans.'

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 23 January 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/53470720. Chapter 24: Bound Together.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 27 December 2019. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/52448491. Chapter 22: Service.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 9 January 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/52978921. Chapter 23: The Sea of Sculptures.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 2 April 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/56194975. Chapter 29: Fury Unleashed.
5. ↑ "Morgen (mythological creature)". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgen\_(mythological\_creature). Accessed 19 May 2021.