Lady Epone
Names: Lady Eponethe Exalted LadyHer nibsexotic slave mistressthe monster
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 22 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 22Epone is a very tall, ageless, beautiful woman with glowing unhuman eyes who overpowers Richard's mind with a seductive illusion before testing him.
- Ch 22Epone cruelly tests new arrivals for latent metafunctions using a crystalline apparatus and a silver coronet, and she sends the failures to caravans.
- Ch 22Epone says the Tanu will make the travelers serve, and a few will find Exile a paradise.
- Ch 25Epone is an immensely tall Tanu woman who tests newcomers for latent metabilities with a silver coronet.
- Ch 29Epone is a Tanu noblewoman from Finiah who leads the caravan, rides a large white chalicothere, and mocks Richard's spirit compared with the 'silly medievalist'.
- Ch 31Epone rides a white chaliko, stays clean in an apparently ionized cloak, and commands the caravan; she summons the knight Dougal, who begs her not to.
- Ch 33Epone is a Tanu slave-mistress and strong coercer who leads the caravan; she sings beautifully and forbids the prisoners to sing "Londonderry Air".
- Ch 33Amphicyons hamstring Epone's chaliko and leap on Epone herself at the escape's start.
- Ch 33Epone, a jade-eyed being, survived as a gnawed limbless torso beneath a dead white chaliko and tried to drag Richard's mind down.
- Ch 34Baby girl born to Estella-Sirone and Cranovel, named after a Tanu who recently died; she will receive a tiny golden torc.
- Ch 35Epone, a Tanu, survived terrible wounds from bear-dogs and bronze swords but died from a single steel knife thrust.
- Ch 39Tanu lady killed by Felice's group; a coercer of moderate power with weak redactive ability.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 5Lady Epone, a powerful coercer, was killed with her gray-torc escort when travelers revolted on the way to Finiah.
Connections
- has memberJean-Paulserves her as a minion
- member ofTanu
- related toFiniahcomes from
- related toDougalslave mistress who dominates him
- ally ofCaptal Waldemarpart of her escort
- enemy ofRichard VoorheesRichard kills her body when she tries to take his mind
- enemy ofFelice LandryFelice killed Epone with a steel knife
- family ofKuhalbrother and sister
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 22Richard meets Epone
Richard escapes his guide into the castle and enters Epone's chamber, where she seduces and then mentally crushes him.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Metafunction testing
Strapped into a chair with a coronet, Richard is tested by Epone for farspeak, coercion, psychokinesis, creativity and redaction, and fails. She orders him sent north to Finiah with others.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Epone's metapsychic test and revelation
Epone tests Amerie with the coronet, then reveals the Tanu plan to use sterilized human women to bear Tanu children. Felice evades testing; both are to travel to Finiah.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Richard wakes in the caravan
Drugged and hungover, Richard wakes on a chaliko riding north toward Finiah, and Claude explains the Tanu, the guards and the fate of the missing Greenies.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Rest stop and escape plan
At a fort, Felice, Amerie and Claude ask Richard to find the Pliocene polestar to support their escape plan. Richard grudgingly agrees.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Arrival at the sleeping-stop fort
The caravan reaches a palisaded fort; Waldemar announces a rest until sunset, Amerie is asked to say Mass, and Epone takes Dougal away.
- Book 1 · Ch 33Firvulag illusion on the lake
Glowing spider shapes approach the caravan; Epone shatters them, and the soldiers say they were Firvulag.
- Book 1 · Ch 33The ambush
At dawn, to Basil's signal, amphicyons attack Epone and her chaliko; disguised Richard kills Waldemar.
- Book 1 · Ch 33Epone killed with iron
The remains of Epone seize Richard's mind; guided by Dougal's cry about iron, Richard stabs her heart with a knife, freeing himself. Dougal then discards a golden hoop in the lake.
- Book 2 · Ch 5News of Felice's revolt
Gomnol questions Bryan about Felice, revealing that her caravan revolted en route to Finiah, killing Epone and the gray-torc escort; Felice and three others remain free.