Audrey Camherst

**Audrey Isabella Mahira Adiaratou Camherst** is the daughter of Jake Camherst and Kwenta Adiaratou Shamade, and the granddaughter of Isabella, Lady Trent. She is the protagonist and one of three viewpoint characters in *Turning Darkness Into Light*.

## About

### Appearance

Audrey has medium brown skin, and black hair that "looks like a cloud when she lets it free", a testament to her mixed Utalu and Scirling parentage.

### Personality

Audrey is guarded and reluctant to let new people into her life, a result of Aaron Mornett's betrayal several years ago. She is a fierce defender of the rights of Draconeans.

### Abilities

Audrey is fluent in several languages, including Scirling, Yelangese, Talungri, and Draconean, which she started learning at the age of six. She has spent much of her life at sea, as her father is an oceanographer and her mother an astronomer.

She is proficient in jujutsu, which she learned from several of her father's suffragette friends.

### Professional Life

Audrey is a professional philologist who is recommended to Lord Gleinleigh as a translator for his tablets.

## In the Series

### *Turning Darkness Into Light*

Marcus Fitzarthur, Lord Gleinleigh, hires Audrey to translate his collection of Draconean tablets. With the help of the lord's niece Cora Fitzarthur and Audrey's friend Kudshayn, she begins translating what may be the Draconean national epic. However, in the course of the work they start to uncover a conspiracy, and realize that Lord Gleinleigh may have ulterior motives other than self-aggrandizement for the translation project.

## Relationships

### Isabella Camherst

Audrey is fond of her grandmother and often seeks to emulate her, wondering "what would Lady Trent do?" She sometimes finds it hard to live up to Isabella's legendary exploits, though.

### Jake Camherst

Jake is Audrey's father, and supports her in whatever she does, though he tries to rein in her impulsiveness sometimes.

### Lotte Camherst

Audrey is very close to her younger sister Lotte, despite them having wildly different interests.

### Kudshayn

Kudshayn, a Draconean priest and ambassador, is Audrey's closest friend. They have known each other since she was eight and he was fifteen, and he caught her misbehaving in the Imperial Palace of Yelang. They reunite to work on translating the Draconean tablets owned by Lord Gleinleigh.

### Cora Fitzarthur

Cora Fitzarthur, Lord Gleinleigh's niece and ward, is assigned by him to be Audrey's assistant (and to spy on her correspondence for him). As they work together and learn more about each other, Cora finds her loyalties slowly shifting away from her uncle and towards her friends Audrey and Kudshayn.

### Simeon Cavall

Simeon Cavall, Curator of Draconean Antiquities at the Tomphries Museum, is a close friend of Audrey, and the one who recommended her to translate the tablets.

### Aaron Mornett

Audrey met Aaron Mornett in her Season, when she was eighteen years old and he was twenty-two. He was charming and interested in the same intellectual pursuits as she was, but her grandmother did not approve, saying he was "not a reputable scholar" and a Calderite. Audrey was infatuated with him, but soon realized his true nature when he plagiarized her work on the Draconean calendar. When they were together, he sometimes called her Beliluštar, the name of an ancient queen, and even composed a poem for her with that name (though she did not discover this until years later).

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *Turning Darkness Into Light* p. 245
2. ↑ *Turning Darkness Into Light* p. 21
3. ↑ *Turning Darkness Into Light* pp. 131-136
4. ↑ *Turning Darkness Into Light* pp. 85-96