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Name: Sabriel, her title is Abhorsen Fandom: The Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix, the first book being "Sabriel" Gender: Female Age: 18 Time Period: Sabriel will be taken from the point just after Touchstone and she escape from the Reservoir under the Royal Palace in The Old Kingdom after her Father had taken Abhorsen’s Sword and used the bell Astarael to send all of the beings left in the Reservoir deep into death, including himself. Wing Color: Solid black like a raven’s wings to match her hair. History: You can find the history here but I’ve also summed it up to the point where I’m taking her below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabriel
The world in which Sabriel lives is divided into two great and promising lands separated by The Wall, a construction ancient and magical in nature that splits the lands in more ways than one. The land of the south is called Ancelstierre; a place similar to Earth’s England in that it corresponds with the achievements and development up to the year 1916 and is a place of technology and science that concerns itself very little with what lies on the other side of The Wall. In fact the further south you go from The Wall, the less and less they understand the fear that is associated with the north, disregarding any reports of magic or even those of the walking dead. The people that live closer to The Wall however have reason to fear and feel uneasy about the strange land; once close to The Wall all technology fails, whether it is a car engine, a telephone line, or a machine gun. Sometimes when the wind from the north blows over The Wall this strange phenomenon is extended deeper inland. The problem this proves is that sometimes, other things creep over the wall, things worse than a chill wind.
The land to the north is The Old Kingdom, a place rife with Charter Magic, a type of pure magic manipulated through marks and musical notes, and Free Magic, the tool of necromancers and the various dead beings that refuse to die and roam the land instead. Technology and reason from Ancelstierre is useless here as the place runs on its own time and weather separate to the land to the south. In place of modern weaponry, The Old Kingdom is full of the Charter, a holy magic that can protect, attack, heal and enchant. Opposing the Charter is Free Magic, a force of raw power and chaos used by the evil creatures that stalk the land and the necromancers who seek to use the Dead for their own means. Only people baptised by the Charter are able to use either of the two types of magic. The use of Necromancy however is a two edged sword; while the user gains power over the dead to use as their servants, known as the Lesser Dead, the Charter within themselves gets corrupted, slowly corroding away at their souls as they descend further into evil until they abandon life and become beings of the Greater Dead. As a Dead Adept, they are able to consume life to grow even stronger. The only being that is immune to this corruption of the Charter is the Abhorsen; a bloodline that combines the magic of The Charter and the Necromancer that works to bind and return the dead into Death rather than raise them.
At the start of the story when Sabriel was born she died shortly after she was born but her father, the Abhorsen, retrieved her soul from the hands of one of the Greater Dead, a being named Kerrigor, before it could pass through the first Gate of Death and revived her; her mother however could not be saved. Sabriel and her father accompanied a band of Travellers around the Old Kingdom, allowing the Abhorsen to fulfill his duties in handling the Dead while raising his daughter up until she was five years of age. He sent Sabriel to a boarding school in Ancelstierre, Waverly College, where she was to be properly educated to be a proper young woman as well as, due to the fact that the school was so close to The Wall and the extension of The Charter that coursed through it, a Charter Mage.
Growing up in the college placed too much distance for Sabriel and her Father to meet more than twice a year physically, however during the dark of the new moon her Father was able to send a projection of his spirit to her by travelling through Death to her location. It’s during these meetings that Sabriel learned the ways of the Necromancer and more importantly, the duties of the Abhorsen; memorizing The Book of The Dead and familiarizing herself with the Abhorsen’s sword, and the Necromancer’s bells. Sabriel was twelve when she first walked through Death, at fourteen she banished a mid-ranking Lesser Dead and at sixteen she defeated a weakened Mordicant, the strongest and most dangerous of the revived Lesser Dead.
Sabriel is eighteen, weeks away from graduating from Waverly College when instead of meeting her Father in the dark of the moon she meets his servant, who presents her the Abhorsen’s sword and her Father’s bells, a delivery that can on only bode ill; her Father is either dead or trapped in Death. Wasting no time in idle thought, Sabriel jumps at the call of duty to find her Father, as well as the excitement of returning to the Old Kingdom in an adventure all her own.
Upon first crossing the Wall and travelling to meet the guide that will point her in the direction of Abhorsen’s house, Sabriel faces a dead revenant when she stops at the broken Charter Stone at Cloven Crest. With the guide’s direction, an ominous threat from the dead creature and a warning from her guide, Sabriel makes haste to reach the path that will lead her to safety. When she climbs the Long Cliffs that will lead her to the path to the house she discovers that she is being tracked by a fully-fledged Mordicant; it is all she can do to run from the beast, eventually fleeing to the safety of Abhorsen’s house nestled on an island in the middle of the strongly flowing Ratterlin River.
While at the house Sabriel meets a white cat named Mogget, a bound Free Magic being and the servant of the Abhorsen at the house who proclaims her to be the new Abhorsen, much to her discomfort, as well as informs her of the Old Kingdom’s decline; the Royal Family long dead, no Regeant in 20 years and the Dead running rampant all throughout the land. When it comes to Sabriel’s attention that the escape routes from the house are blocked by the Moridcant and its servants, both living and Dead, she calls upon the Clayr to send a flood down the Ratterlin river to wash away the bridge her enemies were attempting to build. With the side exits blocked, Sabriel and Mogget escape from the house with a Paperwing, an aircraft made of laminated paper which flies using a spelled wind. However, in their flight they are attacked by a flock of Gore crows that tear the Paperwing to tatters and Sabriel is left with no choice but to remove Mogget’s collar and free him so they might survive the crash.
When she awakes from the crash in Holehollow, Sabriel finds Mogget to be hell bent on her death but she manages to bind him anew with the ring he had given to her upon their first meeting. Exploring the area, Sabriel discovers they have landed in the burial grounds for the Royal Family of the Old Kingdom, who had been dead for two hundred years. However she comes across the preserved body and spirit of a man imprisoned in one of the tombs; she frees him and the man, Touchstone, joins them on their quest. Mogget and Touchstone appear to recognize each other but the man claims to be unable to remember much of his past.
Travelling onwards from Holehollow the company reaches Nestowe, a fishing village devastated by Dead with the living survivors seeking shelter on a small island separate from the mainland by the ocean. After gaining the settlement’s trust and banishing a Mordaut, a parasitic Dead creature living off of one of the inhabitants, they leave the village in a boat to head to Belisaere, the capital of the Old Kingdom where the Royal Palace is located.
While travelling over the water, Sabriel finally learns the truth to Touchstone’s past; how he was present when the royal family died and who exactly was behind her father’s disappearance and was threatening them. Rogir, now Kerrigor, the son of the Queen who had become a Dead Adept and slaughtered his two sisters to break the Great Charter Stones in the Royal Palace reservoir, and soon after slit his own mother’s throat. Touchstone had been saved by the Abhorsen of that time who had been accompanied by Mogget but the damage had been done.
Sneaking successfully into the city, Sabriel and co find it surprisingly alive thanks to the aqueduct system preventing any Dead from trespassing; however, it does nothing to keep the living who are in league with the Dead out. After staying for a night in the city to prepare, Sabriel and Touchstone head down to the reservoir of the Royal Palace, passing a group of Scavengers heading out into the Dead infested areas of town along the way. In the reservoir the twisted Charter magic from the broken stones affects them all strongly but it’s at the heart of the great room that they find Abhorsen’s body frozen in a diamond of protection. Casting another protective diamond around them all, Sabriel enters Death to find her father.
In Death, Sabriel traverses through the first four Precincts and finds her Father frozen at the precipice of the Fourth Gate. She frees him by wielding two bells and the two of them rush back towards life. Sabriel learns from him who Touchstone really is, the last living descendant of the Royal bloodline, as well as where she must go once they leave the reservoir. However, Abhorsen had stayed in Death for too long, his spirit too drained to be able to live much longer in Life. In Life, Touchstone can only watch in horror as the reservoir fills with all manners of the Dead until finally Kerrigor appears, eager to use his half-brother’s blood as well as that of both Abhorsens to break three more of the five Great Charter Stones.
At that point Sabriel and her Father return to Life. Sabriel grabs Touchstone and runs from the reservoir with him, leaving her Father and an unbound Mogget to face the army of Dead. They manage to get halfway out before the bell Sabriel had left with Abhorsen, Astarael, starts to ring and call all who hear it deep into Death. Holding onto Life, Sabriel kisses Touchstone to keep him grounded and stop him from dying, the two of them surviving the call of Astarael while the rest of the Dead, and her Father, slip into Death.
Having been told that a key piece of information for defeating Kerrigor once and for all was waiting for the two of them in the grounds of the Royal Palace from the Clayr, Sabriel and Touchstone make haste to the appointed yard but they are ambushed by the Scavengers. While running from the group, Sabriel is severely injured by a crossbow bolt which sends Touchstone into a berserker rage, leading to the death of her attacker and the two of them outstripping their assailants as he carries her to where the Clayr stand waiting for them.
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Name: Sabriel, her title is Abhorsen
Fandom: The Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix, the first book being "Sabriel"
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Time Period: Sabriel will be taken from the point just after Touchstone and she escape from the Reservoir under the Royal Palace in The Old Kingdom after her Father had taken Abhorsen’s Sword and used the bell Astarael to send all of the beings left in the Reservoir deep into death, including himself.
Wing Color: Solid black like a raven’s wings to match her hair.
History: You can find the history here but I’ve also summed it up to the point where I’m taking her below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabriel
The world in which Sabriel lives is divided into two great and promising lands separated by The Wall, a construction ancient and magical in nature that splits the lands in more ways than one.
The land of the south is called Ancelstierre; a place similar to Earth’s England in that it corresponds with the achievements and development up to the year 1916 and is a place of technology and science that concerns itself very little with what lies on the other side of The Wall. In fact the further south you go from The Wall, the less and less they understand the fear that is associated with the north, disregarding any reports of magic or even those of the walking dead. The people that live closer to The Wall however have reason to fear and feel uneasy about the strange land; once close to The Wall all technology fails, whether it is a car engine, a telephone line, or a machine gun. Sometimes when the wind from the north blows over The Wall this strange phenomenon is extended deeper inland. The problem this proves is that sometimes, other things creep over the wall, things worse than a chill wind.
The land to the north is The Old Kingdom, a place rife with Charter Magic, a type of pure magic manipulated through marks and musical notes, and Free Magic, the tool of necromancers and the various dead beings that refuse to die and roam the land instead. Technology and reason from Ancelstierre is useless here as the place runs on its own time and weather separate to the land to the south. In place of modern weaponry, The Old Kingdom is full of the Charter, a holy magic that can protect, attack, heal and enchant. Opposing the Charter is Free Magic, a force of raw power and chaos used by the evil creatures that stalk the land and the necromancers who seek to use the Dead for their own means. Only people baptised by the Charter are able to use either of the two types of magic. The use of Necromancy however is a two edged sword; while the user gains power over the dead to use as their servants, known as the Lesser Dead, the Charter within themselves gets corrupted, slowly corroding away at their souls as they descend further into evil until they abandon life and become beings of the Greater Dead. As a Dead Adept, they are able to consume life to grow even stronger. The only being that is immune to this corruption of the Charter is the Abhorsen; a bloodline that combines the magic of The Charter and the Necromancer that works to bind and return the dead into Death rather than raise them.
At the start of the story when Sabriel was born she died shortly after she was born but her father, the Abhorsen, retrieved her soul from the hands of one of the Greater Dead, a being named Kerrigor, before it could pass through the first Gate of Death and revived her; her mother however could not be saved. Sabriel and her father accompanied a band of Travellers around the Old Kingdom, allowing the Abhorsen to fulfill his duties in handling the Dead while raising his daughter up until she was five years of age. He sent Sabriel to a boarding school in Ancelstierre, Waverly College, where she was to be properly educated to be a proper young woman as well as, due to the fact that the school was so close to The Wall and the extension of The Charter that coursed through it, a Charter Mage.
Growing up in the college placed too much distance for Sabriel and her Father to meet more than twice a year physically, however during the dark of the new moon her Father was able to send a projection of his spirit to her by travelling through Death to her location. It’s during these meetings that Sabriel learned the ways of the Necromancer and more importantly, the duties of the Abhorsen; memorizing The Book of The Dead and familiarizing herself with the Abhorsen’s sword, and the Necromancer’s bells. Sabriel was twelve when she first walked through Death, at fourteen she banished a mid-ranking Lesser Dead and at sixteen she defeated a weakened Mordicant, the strongest and most dangerous of the revived Lesser Dead.
Sabriel is eighteen, weeks away from graduating from Waverly College when instead of meeting her Father in the dark of the moon she meets his servant, who presents her the Abhorsen’s sword and her Father’s bells, a delivery that can on only bode ill; her Father is either dead or trapped in Death. Wasting no time in idle thought, Sabriel jumps at the call of duty to find her Father, as well as the excitement of returning to the Old Kingdom in an adventure all her own.
Upon first crossing the Wall and travelling to meet the guide that will point her in the direction of Abhorsen’s house, Sabriel faces a dead revenant when she stops at the broken Charter Stone at Cloven Crest. With the guide’s direction, an ominous threat from the dead creature and a warning from her guide, Sabriel makes haste to reach the path that will lead her to safety. When she climbs the Long Cliffs that will lead her to the path to the house she discovers that she is being tracked by a fully-fledged Mordicant; it is all she can do to run from the beast, eventually fleeing to the safety of Abhorsen’s house nestled on an island in the middle of the strongly flowing Ratterlin River.
While at the house Sabriel meets a white cat named Mogget, a bound Free Magic being and the servant of the Abhorsen at the house who proclaims her to be the new Abhorsen, much to her discomfort, as well as informs her of the Old Kingdom’s decline; the Royal Family long dead, no Regeant in 20 years and the Dead running rampant all throughout the land. When it comes to Sabriel’s attention that the escape routes from the house are blocked by the Moridcant and its servants, both living and Dead, she calls upon the Clayr to send a flood down the Ratterlin river to wash away the bridge her enemies were attempting to build. With the side exits blocked, Sabriel and Mogget escape from the house with a Paperwing, an aircraft made of laminated paper which flies using a spelled wind. However, in their flight they are attacked by a flock of Gore crows that tear the Paperwing to tatters and Sabriel is left with no choice but to remove Mogget’s collar and free him so they might survive the crash.
When she awakes from the crash in Holehollow, Sabriel finds Mogget to be hell bent on her death but she manages to bind him anew with the ring he had given to her upon their first meeting. Exploring the area, Sabriel discovers they have landed in the burial grounds for the Royal Family of the Old Kingdom, who had been dead for two hundred years. However she comes across the preserved body and spirit of a man imprisoned in one of the tombs; she frees him and the man, Touchstone, joins them on their quest. Mogget and Touchstone appear to recognize each other but the man claims to be unable to remember much of his past.
Travelling onwards from Holehollow the company reaches Nestowe, a fishing village devastated by Dead with the living survivors seeking shelter on a small island separate from the mainland by the ocean. After gaining the settlement’s trust and banishing a Mordaut, a parasitic Dead creature living off of one of the inhabitants, they leave the village in a boat to head to Belisaere, the capital of the Old Kingdom where the Royal Palace is located.
While travelling over the water, Sabriel finally learns the truth to Touchstone’s past; how he was present when the royal family died and who exactly was behind her father’s disappearance and was threatening them. Rogir, now Kerrigor, the son of the Queen who had become a Dead Adept and slaughtered his two sisters to break the Great Charter Stones in the Royal Palace reservoir, and soon after slit his own mother’s throat. Touchstone had been saved by the Abhorsen of that time who had been accompanied by Mogget but the damage had been done.
Sneaking successfully into the city, Sabriel and co find it surprisingly alive thanks to the aqueduct system preventing any Dead from trespassing; however, it does nothing to keep the living who are in league with the Dead out. After staying for a night in the city to prepare, Sabriel and Touchstone head down to the reservoir of the Royal Palace, passing a group of Scavengers heading out into the Dead infested areas of town along the way. In the reservoir the twisted Charter magic from the broken stones affects them all strongly but it’s at the heart of the great room that they find Abhorsen’s body frozen in a diamond of protection. Casting another protective diamond around them all, Sabriel enters Death to find her father.
In Death, Sabriel traverses through the first four Precincts and finds her Father frozen at the precipice of the Fourth Gate. She frees him by wielding two bells and the two of them rush back towards life. Sabriel learns from him who Touchstone really is, the last living descendant of the Royal bloodline, as well as where she must go once they leave the reservoir. However, Abhorsen had stayed in Death for too long, his spirit too drained to be able to live much longer in Life. In Life, Touchstone can only watch in horror as the reservoir fills with all manners of the Dead until finally Kerrigor appears, eager to use his half-brother’s blood as well as that of both Abhorsens to break three more of the five Great Charter Stones.
At that point Sabriel and her Father return to Life. Sabriel grabs Touchstone and runs from the reservoir with him, leaving her Father and an unbound Mogget to face the army of Dead. They manage to get halfway out before the bell Sabriel had left with Abhorsen, Astarael, starts to ring and call all who hear it deep into Death. Holding onto Life, Sabriel kisses Touchstone to keep him grounded and stop him from dying, the two of them surviving the call of Astarael while the rest of the Dead, and her Father, slip into Death.
Having been told that a key piece of information for defeating Kerrigor once and for all was waiting for the two of them in the grounds of the Royal Palace from the Clayr, Sabriel and Touchstone make haste to the appointed yard but they are ambushed by the Scavengers. While running from the group, Sabriel is severely injured by a crossbow bolt which sends Touchstone into a berserker rage, leading to the death of her attacker and the two of them outstripping their assailants as he carries her to where the Clayr stand waiting for them.