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Viridiana Sovari

Also Known As

Vi

First Appearance

Way of Shadows

Last Appearance

Beyond the Shadows

Age

19/20

Status

Alive

Affiliation

Family

Gender

Female

Possessions

  • Hair
  • Wigs

Viridiana Sovari, also known as Vi, is known as a wetboy in Midcyru. The term is applied inaccurately, however, because a Wetboy is capable of using the Talent without speaking and of feats that a Maja (the accurate term for Vi's powers) cannot replicate such as becoming invisible. In Shadow's Edge Sister Ariel tells her that because she needs to speak to use her Talent that makes her a maja uxtra kurrukulas, a bush mage, a wild mage and not a wetboy. She is primarily an antagonist throughout the first two books of the series, but in Shadow's Edge and Beyond the Shadows she fights alongside Kylar Stern.

Personality and Appearance[]

Vi is described as a young woman of striking beauty with an athletic, yet voluptuous, figure, flaming red hair, green eyes, and "angelic" facial features. Although naturally redheaded, she often wears high quality wigs to change disguises and personas. When on a mission she has her hair done up in a pony tail. Her attire varies depending on the task at hand, but is almost always provocative. As her beauty and sex appeal are potent tools, she typically dresses to display her figure, sometimes surreptitiously, other times flamboyantly. Even her wetboy greys are designed to be revealing.

Vi was apprenticed at a young age to the infamous wetboy Hu Gibbet, who had her kill her own mother and her mother's lover as a test of savagery. Over the course of her apprenticeship, Hu frequently defiled her, crushing her respect for her physical self and detaching her from her body; this allows her to unashamedly seduce and use her femininity to meet her ends. The only part of her body that she views as anything more than a tool is her hair, of which she is very protective.

In the span of the books, it's revealed she sees herself as a coldhearted witch, cunning and well-versed in the language of meat—both killing and sexual. How other characters see her is vastly Talented, without manners and decorum, beautiful and as Sister Ariel put it "an emotional cripple." However, her spirit begins to heal and her humanity return when she finds herself in love with Kylar and desires to leave the shadows as he has done.


History[]

The Way of Shadows[]

Apprenticed to wetboy Hu Gibbet, an adolescent Viridiana killed her own mother and her mother's lover as a passing test. Once she reached puberty, Hu would frequently defile his pretty, young apprentice, which resulted in her careless attitude when using her body for procuring information and performing assassinations. As part of her apprenticeship, Hu had her train as a courtesan under Gwinvere Kirena and Vi spent a lot of time whoring in the city's brothels.

Viridiana is first mentioned by Durzo Blint as he recounts seeing her and Hu Gibbet at a meeting of the Sa'kagé. Durzo proceeds to taunt his own pupil Kylar Stern by proclaiming that she has great Talent and shows more promise than Kylar does.

During the ball, while Kylar is searching for Hu Gibbet and the Ka'kari, the prince is lured away by a shapely young blonde who is described as possessing great beauty and dressed like a "scandal in red"; this is later revealed to have been Vi in one of her wigs.

Her second appearance was her attempt to assassinate Kylar Stern by dressing up as a servant in Count Drake's house and seducing him. Kylar fell victim to her charms and she managed to disarm him. He escaped by a hair's-breadth when Count Drake burst into the room and Vi was forced to flee out the bedroom window with one of Kylar's throwing knives embedded in her shoulder.

Shadow's Edge[]

Later in the story Viridiana is brought before the GodKing Garoth Ursuul, who (without her knowledge) places a powerful compulsion spell on her, binding her to his will. He sends her on a mission to kill Kylar Stern and Jarl, the latter of whom had been her friend since girlhood. When she arrives on the scene, Jarl and Kylar are conversing at Elene's Aunt Mea's house while Elene, Uly and Aunt Mea are out shopping. Vi struggles to get a good view of Kylar but can only get one of Jarl. Under the influence of the Godking's compulsion, she shoots Jarl in the neck and he dies in a spray of blood.

Vi later captures Uly who ran ahead of Elene and Aunt Mea to get home. Distraught over having been forced to kill her friend, she harbors a hatred towards Godking Garoth Ursuul, and teams up with Kylar to kill him. Along the way, a mutual attraction builds between them. She finds herself bonding and later falling in love with Kylar, and her heart begins to soften.

In a twist, Vi discovers that she is in fact Garoth's daughter, and under the powers of compulsion, which enables him to bend her to his will. She is forced to kill Kylar in the throne room and is unable to harm the Godking. Appalled at what she's been forced to do and at the thought of living as Garoth's slave, she is forced to break his control over her, by magically bonding with Kylar through marriage. This destroys Kylar's hopes of marrying Elene Cromwyll, but gives Vi back her free will. As Garoth is distracted by his forces' battle against the Cenarians, she knifes him over and over until he realizes that she is no longer under his power. Sensing his impending doom, the Godking uses his powerful vir to try and use the 'Death Spell', a spell that would cause his vir to latch onto Vi's body and drag his consciousness with him, taking her body for his own. Fortunately, Kylar was able to return through the power of the Black Ka'kari and a deal with The Wolf, and slashed through the fingers of the Vir just before they could take full control of Vi.

Initially Kylar is distraught that, upon his return he was now magically bonded with Vi, and had apparently come back quickly only to find disappointment. However the repercussions had he not been revived so quickly would have been significantly more disastrous: Garoth might have taken possession of Vi's body and subsequently (via the rings) been able to influence Kylar himself.

Beyond the Shadows[]

Despite Kylar telling her to get out of his sight and that he never wanted to see her again, she unknowingly sent her emotion through their marriage bond and Kylar felt her love for him. After fleeing the city she left the note she had stolen from Elene at Torras Bend along with one of her own for Elene. The note explained who she was and offered Elene her life for wronging her. She inadvertently ran into Durzo Blint, who considered killing her to free Kylar of their forced marriage bond. However, Durzo decided to spare her life.

Vi eventually arrived at the Chantry, where she was admitted as an apprentice Sister, completely isolated from everyone and sharing the same level of instruction as children. She unconsciously reached out to Kylar in very intimate dreams through their marriage bond several times while she was there. When Elene eventually arrived and spared her life while she slept, Elene forgave and befriended Vi after their confrontation. One day Vi collapsed as she tried to shield Kylar's mind from the torture of the wheel he was being executed on by Logan Gyre, accepting the pain to protect Kylar; Ariel remarked it was a "cruel kindness" as it prolonged his suffering, though it was well meant.

When Kylar arrived to meet Elene and confront Vi, the Chantry Speaker revealed in private that their forced marriage had happened before--Ariel revealed it was called "Ring Rape" but the Speaker said they were needed for a Chantry counter plot against the rebel sisters. Vi protested on Kylar's behalf and unknowingly spoke his mind, however Vi and Kylar eventually resigned to the Speaker's plot and lived together with Elene posing as a servant. Ariel later revealed that their forced bond had given Vi compulsion over Kylar and that Vi could suspend the bond using magic, though it caused Vi tremendous emotional suffering as she could feel and see everything when the bond was suspended; thus allowing Kylar to make love to Elene during Elene's last days. Vi selflessly endured the agony it caused her.

When the Wolf's time warding off Elene's death had finally ended Elene revealed to Vi that she was pregnant, and made Vi swear not to tell Kylar, she told Vi to show Kylar it was okay to love others aside from her and to lie until she had a head start on him to join Logan Gyre's army. After Elene fled to protect Kylar from his feelings, Vi couldn't help but send pangs of guilt for withholding the truth from Kylar. After Kylar presumed the Chantry had betrayed him, or at the very least that Vi was hiding something, Vi used her compulsion on Kylar after he had forcibly broken into the Chantry. Revealing the truth, Kylar reacted exactly as Elene predicted. Heartbroken, Vi resigned to her duties as an apprentice sister, taking her magae army to help Logan Gyre, after spearheading a few moments in the battle, Vi eventually made her way to Khali, whom now possessed Elene's reborn body. Trying to keep Kylar from butchering everyone while under Khali's compulsion over him as Elene, Vi managed to sever their bond, freeing Kylar from all compulsion. After Elene sacrificed herself to destroy Khali, Vi pooled her magic along with everyone else into Dorian's hands to help his endeavors in responding to his prophecies. Vi mourned Elene's death at her funeral but realized that whilst saving everyone's lives Dorian had also saved Elene and Kylar's unborn child, transferring the baby into Jenine Gyre's womb. She is last seen taking Kylar's hand in hers and sharing his grief, ending the tale.

Post-Trilogy[]

Vi gets a proper education with the sisterhood. In the future, she is offered the position of Speaker of the Chantry multiple times but refuses.

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