Surprise
The Sorceress of talents, Surprise can use any talent imaginable once and only once. She is the child of Grundy Golem and Rapunzel, so named because the stork surprisingly didn't bring Surprise until she was five years old. In The Dastard, she found out that she could in fact use talents again after a lengthy recharge, but the Dastard saw how happy she was and went back in time and successfully prevented her from finding this out. However, she has also realized that by using her imagination, she can produce any given effect in multiple ways, effectively bypassing the limitation. She starred in Geis of the Gargoyle, and was instrumental in restoring the Interface around Xanth. She was also a central character in Stork Naked and has a daughter with Umlaut.
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They’re quite impervious to heat.”
—Noël Coward (1899–1973)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)