Qora Paunene Zela

Qora

Sediryl's crazy Faulfenzair friend.

Physical Characteristics

An Eye of Faulza, Qora is white with red fire points (ears, throat, fingertips, toes), with bright green eyes. He is unmated, and so has the body of a pre-Entwining male.

Biography

A mechanic? A sanitary engineer? A priest? A spy! He was part of Daize's crew on the Willseeker (one of nineteen), one of a small number of experimental military vessels developed by the Faulfenza in response to the predation of pirates on the borders.

Volunteered his pattern to Attendant. Left with Lisinthir when he returned to the Chatcaavan Empire.

Quotes

• "Don’t waste time soothing me. I don’t require soothing. Our God is a god of fire, foreign woman, and fire burns even its friends."

• "Put that feeling into your body, and through your body into the world. When you speak this way, you transform that speech into beauty. Training will be difficult. You will strengthen your body, and marry it to your will and your emotions. You will have to concentrate. But to speak, you cannot wall away your ambivalence, your grief, your hope. They must go through your body and into the world."

• "People die in war, Eldritch princess. People also die from stupid accidents, and horrible diseases, and old age. Do we prefer to die young? Of course not. But Faulza willing, our deaths have meaning. This… death while escaping tyranny, and preventing more loss? Better that, than many, many alternatives."

• "A true dancer never trips."

• "That's why I want to see if I can turn some unsuspecting Chatcaavan into one of us. What a fascinating turn of events that would be! You could go from pampered servant to God-touched priest in a single step of the dance!"

Trivia

• he's adopted a lot of Pelted gestures: smiling, nodding