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Tavore Paran

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Adjunct Tavore Paran

 

Name : Tavore Paran of House Paran

Age: born 1142/3, early twenties in series

Race: Human, Untan

Appearance: Tall, somewhat broad in the hips, her breasts slightly oversized for her frame. Her clothes were well made and virtually colourless. A match to her eyes, to the streaks of grey in her reddish, short-cropped hair.

Further info: The otataral sword of her office was scabbarded at her belt. (HoC UK mmpb p.278). Becomes Adjunct after the death of Lorn. Commands the 14th Army, known as the Bonehunters. An emotionless and remote woman, she never reveals her thoughts or motivations. Middle Paran child, sister to Ganoes and Felisin.

 


 

Tavore, Ganoes' sister (middle-child) - (GotM, Dramatis Personae)

 

 

"His sister, Tavore, a year younger than him, stood close to the head of the table, one hand on the back of their father's chair. She was as plain as ever, a slash of bloodless lines comprising her features, her reddish hair trimmed shorter than was the style. She was taller than the last time he'd seen her, nearly his own height, no longer the awkward child. Her expression revealed nothing as she studied him." -(GotM, US HC p.55, UK mmpb p.49)

 

- This places Tavore's DOB in 1142/3, so like her brother she is in her early twenties throughout the series ''

 

"It seemed to Felisin that her sister had never been a child, had never known a playful moment. She had stepped into their brother's shadow and sought only to remain there, and when Ganoes had been sent off for schooling, Tavore underwent a subtle transformation. No longer in Ganoes' shadow, it was as if she had become his shadow, severed and haunting." - (HoC, UK mmpb, pg 704)


Tavore as a Tactician

 

"Tavore had claimed her brothers bone and antler toy soldiers... she had arranged a miniature battle. only later wold Felisin learn that her nine-year old sister had been, in fact, recreating a set battle, culled from historical accounts of a century old clash between a Royal Untan army and the rebelling house of K'azz D'Avore. A battle that had seen the annihilation of the renegade noble family's forces and the subjugation of the D'Avore household. And that, taking on the role of duke Kenussen D'Avore, she was working through every possible sequence of tactics towards achieving a victory. Trapped by a series of unfortunate circumstance sin a steep-sided valley, and hopelessly outnumbered, the unanimous consensus among military scholars was that such victory was impossible. Felisin never learned if her sister had succeeded where Kenussen D'Avore - reputedly a military genius - had failed." -( HoC, UK mmpb, pg 703-704)

Her questions struck from unanticipated directions, Lostara could see, and Quick Ben was left mentally reeling.  This was a sharp talent, a surprising one, and it told Lostara that Adjunct Tavore possessed traits that made her a formidable tactician – but why had none of them seen this before? (DoD)

 

"She thinks she can cheat them.  Did you know, she was the pre-eminent scholar of the lives of Kellanved, Dancer and Dassem?  You didn't, did you?  Before she was made Adjunct.  Even before she inherited command of House Paran.  A student of war – imperial war.  The Conquests – not just tactics on the field, but the motivations of the Emperor and his mad cohorts.  The lives of them all.  Crust, Toc the Elder, Urko, Ameron, Admiral Nok, Surly, even Tayschrenn – why do you think she keeps Banaschar around?  That drunk fool is her potential emissary should Tayschrenn finally decide to do something."

But Bottle was clearly struck on Quick Ben's first revelation.  "Cheat them?  Cheat the Lords of Shadow?  Cheat them of what?"

Quick Ben's bared teeth glimmered like gold in the flickering candlelight.  "I dare not say." - (DoD, mmpb, pg 959-960)

 

 

 

 

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