Aelyn Meah visited Leviathan’s End five years after the Battle of Ranan.

She was a diminished figure by then. Physically, she was tall and narrow, a sinewy white woman emotionally fed on regret and sorrow. The last was so palpable that it could be felt when she entered a room.

To the people who were not yet part of Se’Saera’s Faithful, Aelyn Meah was known as the Betrayer, the Fool’s Breath, and the Daughter of Lies. Over the last five years she has been hunted and attacked by people from all over the world. She has survived not through her own cunning, but through the will of our new god. Stories of Se’Saera striking down those who lift a hand against Aelyn Meah are not uncommon.

It is not a blessing, or even a kindness, that sees Se’Saera protect her. It is, ironically, a curse.

—Onaedo, Histories, Year 1029