Eira Prowell

* Platinum blonde with fiery red edges and highlights (when using the powers of the Phoenix, controlled at will)
* Platinum blonde (for a while)

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Adelaide Kane

Lady **Gwyneira "Eira" Prowell**, Duchess of Dumnonia is a high school student of the modern world who've been transported back to the time of the Anglo-Saxons with the sudden appearance of a wormhole. She was saved by Merlin who've considered her to be **"The Unknown Seer"**, the one who is meant to stand beside King Arthur until the end. Learning that she has no other way back home but to fulfill whatever duty she must do at a time, Eira tries to do the missions given to her without destroying the known legend she is aware o. However, when she slowly fall in love with Arthur, she starts to wonder if the legend that scholars had written were real or not, or whether she's changing it.

It is later revealed, in *Flames of Darkness*, that she isn't brought to the world through a wormhole by accident, but by Morgana, who had been planning to use her for her plans of destroying Arthur since the start, and by Merlin, who planted the prophecy regarding her to ensure Arthur's success. When she returned back to her time, she learned that she had been in coma for a month when she had stayed in the Anglo-Saxon world for more than a decade, and had no recollection of it. Until, on her own time roughly seven years later, she came across the same book she had seen at the start, recovered her memories, and met the modern world's counterpart of Arthur.

## Biography

### Background

Eira was the only child of a famous Scottish archaeologist Ernest Prowell and history professor Catríona Prowell. Due to her father's constant absence, she grew interested of the same field as he does and promised to one day be a successful archaeologist as well. her mother was also an archaeologist, but when she was born and in order for her to live a life as normal as possible than to constantly be with them during expeditions and travels, decided to be a history professor instead.

According to Eira, her father returned to the field when she was eight years old.

### Arrival to the Anglo-Saxon Era

At sixteen years old, Eira was introduced as a clumsy but intelligent and hardworking high school student who've visited London along with her class for their school field trip. Along with her best friend Shannon, the two decided to spend a day in the British Library. Since their time there, she started having the sensation that she's being watched by someone. A freak accident had pushed them to leave the library after she found a weird book that bears no title on the spine and its cover at all. The following day when they've visited the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum with their other classmates, during the time that she's being photographed by Shannon, a wormhole appeared and dropped her to the world of Anglo-Saxon era to be found by Merlin and his magically conjured lion.

She inquired if she was dreaming with all of this or had been involved in a movie or TV show shooting, but Merlin informed her that she was the one that they've all been waiting for. She asked him how to return to London but formally figured out that they were talking about two different cities. Merlin then told her that she was destined for greatness, hence she was the one spoken by the prophecies of the Old Religion.

## Physical description

Eira is a beautiful and petite young woman with dark brown hair and brown eyes. She is also surprisingly pale. her features were considered a little odd for the era of the Anglo-Saxon, but she is countless of times referred to be completely beautiful and unique. Upon her arrival to the Anglo-Saxon era, her hair had been short that it reaches just passed her shoulders; as she spends her time in the era, her hair had lengthened, keeping it until the small of her back. When Lord Phoenix decided to be a part of her core magic, a streak of her hair behind the left ear had changed to permanent silver. Whenever she is using the powers of Lord Phoenix, and since the full awakening that she can fully controlled at will, her hair changed to platinum blonde with fiery red edges and highlights. For a while, when she had sold her youth for Arthur's life, her hair turned platinum blonde or almost gray. She also started to have taut and toned muscles with all the physical training and activities she had done.

## Personality

Eira is clumsy; but an intelligent and hardworking one, and also a fast-learner. She considers her clumsiness due to her being unlucky with almost everything. It had been the running joke for too much of the series, but she slowly matures and overcomes this. She is a little of a crybaby upon her arrival to the Anglo-Saxon era, wanting to runaway from all of the things going on around her; until the moment that Arthur tells her that if she really wants to return, then she better be strong to fight off whatever challenges are going to happen next. She is revealed to be a bit of a fool, heading straight to helping others, has a soft-heart when it comes to everything else, and be a masochist if it means saving or protecting the people she wants to protect. She is highly close to the rest of the knights and likes to find ways in winning back against Arthur's consistent teasing.

## Skills & abilities

Eira slowly overcomes her clumsiness the very moment that she started training to be a capable knight who'll aid Arthur to his countless missions. In the first year that she settles in the era of Anglo-Saxon, she manages to learn how to fight while riding a horse on her own (despite this having countless of setbacks), developing skills with archery to almost sharp accuracy, wield a sword, hand-in-hand combat, and the usage of magic. Due to her being knowledgeable about the modern-world's living, she had used such lessons to good use throughout her stay, making her as well a formidable strategist.

## Relationships

### Love interests

* Arthur Pendragon

Arthur Pendragon was introduced to Eira as the young man who was the subject of her prophecy as Alwyn the Unknown Seer, one that had been introduced to her by the famed sorcerer Merlin. At their first meeting, Arthur was considered as Sir Hector of Forest Sauvage's ward and had been assigned to train her that infuriated him due to her clumsiness. He nicknamed her "Stupid", and in return, called him "Brat" in her mind alone. Their relationship had started to be a little rocky, filled with him teasing but was later on revealed to be his way of hiding his true feelings toward her. However, it then gave Eira a view of Arthur's struggle with his emotions, slowly helping him to accept it and be open with it, until to the point she had fallen in love with him.

Knowing the legend of King Arthur, Eira pushed the story to how it had been that she supported him in all the challenges, included herein was to make him accept the engagement with Guinevere. However, Arthur continued disregarding her words and the suggestions of the people around him for by that time, it had been hinted that he wanted to marry someone he loves, and it ended up that he had already fallen in love with her. Since then, with all the troubles and quests they've shared together, they slowly became closer and showed affections toward one another.

Later on, after countless troubles and hardships, and both of their lives being threatened one way or another, Arthur proposed to her in becoming his queen. They were secretly married since the Court suggested that it would be better to proceed with the marriage after she had proven her worth for years of accompanying Arthur in the war, and the Church was yet to release an official papal bull for them to be given the opportunity to marry, which had been staggered and delayed due to Camelot's war with the Romans and Saxons. Only a few–namely Ewias, Elinor, Lancelot, Ilyrin, and Rahere–were aware of it, later on had been known by Merlin as well.

When they were working on to have their marriage announced, Arthur's half-sister, Morgana, arrived in Court and interfered with their plans. With her bewitching and cunning personality, she had separated the two and even pushed forth to the absolute destruction of the Round Table. Arthur decided to call all of his knights to march on to France in order to retrieve her from Lancelot, who've actually saved her from Morgana's clutches without his knowledge. However, news reached both Arthur and Eira that Mordred had taken the throne, getting caught then in the Battle of Camlann. Eira had arrived at the aftermath of the battlefield, only to be reunited with a dying Arthur. He later died en-route to Avalon on her attempt to bring him there for him to heal from his wounds.
### Family

* Ernest and Catríona Prowell

Ernest and Catríona Prowell are Eira's parents. According to Eira, her father is an archaeologist and her mother is a historian. Her parents decided to settle in Edinburgh, Scotland, when she was a baby, and her father only returned to field work when she was eight years old. Her interest to history and archaeology had been influenced by both parents. She also mentioned that they were both committed to their works, and had been very attentive of her; hence she worries about what had happened to them when she had arrived to the Anglo-Saxon era.

### Friends

* Merlin
* Knights of the Round

### Enemies

* Syra Eugenius
* Guinevere
* Morgana le Fay

## Appearances

* *Sword of Light*
* *Isle of Knights*
* *Kingdom of Blades*
* *Flames of Darkness*
* *Are Angels Supposed to be Humans?*
* *For Love Can Exist With Hatred*

## Quotes

* Rays of Gold
* Sword of Light
* Isle of Knights
* Kingdom of Blades
* Flames of Darkness

## Trivia

* Etymology
* Character descriptions
* Author's notes

* The name **Gwyneira** means "white snow" from the Welsh element *gwyn* meaning "white, fair, blessed" combined with *eira* meaning "snow". Her preferred nickname, **Eira** means "snow" in Welsh, and the modern form of "Eir" that means "mercy" in Old English and the name of a Norse goddess of healing and medicine. The name **Prowell** is a variant of "Prowle" in Welsh.

- Meaning within the series.

- Meaning behind the name.

- If named after a real person or not.

- According to Flaire, Eira's inspirational song in the series is *"This Close"* by Flyleaf. For the story of Eira and Arthur, the inspirational song is *"Again"* by Flyleaf, along with *"Different Worlds"* by Jes Hudak ft. George Arthur when the two realized that they love each other, and *"Meet Me on the Battlefield"* by Svcrina for the two of them fighting side-by-side in countless of battles and overcoming challenges. For the love triangle between Arthur, Lancelot and her, the inspirational song is *"Unspoken"* by Welshley Arms. Eira's inspirational song for Arthur is *"Never Forget"* by Michelle Pfeiffer.

## References

1. ↑  Behind the Name:Gwyneira
2. ↑  Behind the Name:Eira (1)
3. ↑  Behind the Name:Eira (2)
4. ↑  Behind the Name:Eir
5. ↑ Prowell Family History