Emelanese Nobility
Lady Amiliane fa Landreg is Sandry's mother, Namornese noblewoman who married into the Emelanese ruling family, although not into the direct ruling line. Sandry describes her parents as a cheerful but flighty young couple, disdaining the duties of their nobility to travel the world. Their travels ended in Hatar, when they both succumbed to the plague, leaving their ten-year-old daughter orphaned.
Lady Inoulia fa Juzon is Duke Vedris's daughter-in-law and the lady of Gold Ridge Valley, the area of Emelan plighted by drought and forest fires in Daja's Book.
Lady Liesa fa Nadlen, a young noblegirl being schooled in Winding Circle, clashes with Sandry in the dining hall over Sandry's request that Daja Kisubo, a commoner and a Trader, dine with her at the nobility's table.
Lord Mattin fer Toren is Sandry's father and Duke Vedris's favorite nephew. Sandry describes her parents as a cheerful but flighty young couple, disdaining the duties of their nobility to travel the world. Their travels ended in Hatar, when they both succumbed to the plague, leaving their ten-year-old daughter orphaned.
Duke Vedris IV, Sandry's great-uncle and the ruler of Emelan, offers to take her in after her parents die of plague in the island of Hatar. However, Vedris is a widower and a workaholic, and his Citadel strikes Sandry as a grim place to grow up; she embraces his offer to be educated in the nearby temple of Winding Circle. Aside from his appearances in all four Circle of Magic books, Duke Vedris appears extensively in Magic Steps, and briefly in The Will of the Empress.
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