Overview
Thamrielle is an ancient Malverand guardian, Barachiel's partner, and Sariel's mother. She is an extraordinary fire-and-earth mage who uses lava, volcanic eruptions, and terrain-shaping magic large enough to alter battlefields and landscapes. Barachiel sends her to Rahmavir to investigate the Eternal War, and her later attempt to use the source essence core to restore him ends when Abraxas kills her and takes it.
Appearance and Character
Thamrielle has blond hair and red eyes. Powerful surges make her hair blaze white or orange, leave molten orange veins across her body, and, after she takes the source essence core, turn her eyes black or black-and-white. She wears guardian robes, including crimson-accented robes and later white robes laced with red.
She is proud, blunt, loyal to Barachiel, and volatile when Malverand or Barachiel is threatened. After Barachiel's disappearance, grief and fading memory leave her desperate to preserve what remains of Barachiel, Sariel, and the life that defined her. She wants Barachiel back and fears losing her memories of him and Sariel.
Under guard, Thamrielle shows remorse, affection for Remiella, concern for Jeremiah, and practical cooperation with the expedition's preparations.
Magic and Shard
Thamrielle's main powers are fire and earth. She conjures and controls lava, raises volcanoes, shapes earth into monoliths, walls, ship-moving platforms, and battlefield terrain, and uses fire bursts for high-speed movement. She can teach advanced earth techniques, including lava-draining spells. Her heat resistance gives her near immunity to heat. She remains careful around direct lava exposure.
She carries the lava shard, a fire-and-earth god-pact shard bearing Kharvos. Kharvos speaks through the shard, empowers her magic, and guides her toward the source. Thamrielle's essence was used heavily in Kharvos's creation, and Thamrielle and Kharvos took part in forging the core that became Pyrathalor. She relies on a Malverand heart until its healing fails under extreme damage.
History
In early Malverand history, Thamrielle joins Barachiel's guardians and becomes publicly close to him. Their relationship is public enough that rumors spread about Barachiel making her empress. Barachiel later introduces Sariel as his child with Thamrielle, making her the mother of Malverand's prince.
Thamrielle is Malverand's envoy and commander in Rahmavir. Barachiel orders her to investigate the Eternal War, keep Rahmavir's fight with the Oracles away from Malverand, and maintain peace. She kills an Oracle envoy who warns that Abraxas wants to meet Barachiel over a destroyer prophecy, and later loses her second-in-command Phariel when Abraxas kills him during Rahmavir and Malverand's attack on the Oracles.
After Barachiel disappears, Thamrielle returns from Rahmavir and keeps trying to recover him. She spends a period in Blackcrag after Eremion offers it as a refuge before Eremion moves against her. She then stays near Isandriel through long stretches of Malverand's decline, including the fight against Jorhan's corruption in Durakarn, the aftermath of Remiella's wave-shard spell, and the awakening of the burning frost crystal in Morozkaya.
During the Jazarel Battle, Thamrielle raises a massive volcano, saves Jeremiah from immediate defeat, and sends lava through the repeated abyss sequences around Helena, Zero, and Mia. Mia dies protecting Helena from Thamrielle's lava, and Thalion Zenith nearly kills Thamrielle before Isandriel keeps her alive for questioning.
During captivity, Thamrielle gives the Order information about Rahmavir, Abraxas, and the source, then joins Isandriel's expedition into the Plains of Eternity. Driven by her need to recover Barachiel and hold onto her fading memories, she follows Kharvos's guidance to Zarephon, removes the source essence core from the lake beneath the city, and returns to the expedition. She refuses to surrender it and later tries to flee with it, leading to a destructive battle against Isandriel, Igor, Viviana, and Gren.
Isandriel eventually beats her until the Malverand heart fails under the damage. Thamrielle protects Kharvos's shard hand under Tal'Massar's unmaking power and severs her own trapped arm before Isandriel can reach the shard. When Isandriel prepares to unmake Thamrielle, Kharvos, and the source essence core together, Abraxas arrives, stops him, takes the core, and disintegrates Thamrielle.
Relationships
- Barachiel is Thamrielle's partner, and Sariel is their son.
- Kharvos is her god, shard bond, and closest magical partner during the expedition to Zarephon.
- Phariel is her second-in-command in Rahmavir; Abraxas kills him during Rahmavir and Malverand's attack on the Oracles.
- Isandriel is her long companion after Malverand's decline, later her captor, and finally the guardian who nearly unmade her.
- Abraxas kills Phariel, takes the source essence core from Thamrielle, and disintegrates her.