Sha'ik Elder
Name: Sha'ik
Pseudonyms:..,
Age:...aprroximately 40 years old
Race:...
Appearance: small, honey skinned with long black hair
Warren:...
Further Info: Leader of the Whirlwind, Seeress of the Apocalypse, Slain by the Red Blades.
Sha'ik, leader of the rebellion - (DG, Dramatis Personae)
'The small, honey-skinned woman standing before him radiated power in waves, the smell of dust and sand whipped by winds, the taste of salt and blood. Her rather plain face was deeply lined, giving her an appearance of being around forty years old, though
Kalam suspected she was younger -
Raraku was a harsh home' - (
DG, UK MMPB, p.201)
"'I saw the Whirlwind Seer but once, and that was at a distance. Light-skinned for a Seven Cities native. Dark eyes, not especially tall or imposing. It's said the power is - was - within her eyes. Dark and cruel.'...'Older than Apsalar. Perhaps twice her years. Same black hair, though'" - (DG, UK mmpb, p.454)
"Sha’ik was anointed as the Seeress of the Apocalypse almost as soon as she was born. Forty or more years in Raraku, preparing for this year . ."- Mappo - (DG UK Tpb, p.330)
"Who carries Sha'ik's belongings?' she asked.
'I do.'
'I will take them.'
He was silent as he set down his pack, untied the flap and began removing items. Clothing, a scatter of a poor woman's rings, bracelets and earrings, a thin-bladed long-knife, its iron stained black except for its honed edge.
'Her sword awaits us at the encampment,' Leoman said when he'd done. 'She wore the bracelets on her left wrist only, the rings on her left hand.' He gestured down at some leather straps. 'She wound these around her right wrist and forearm.'" - (DG, UK mmpb, p.730
"..a sudden rush of knowledge that could only be Sha'ik Elder's...The eldest of the three was ancient, withered Bidithal, the one who had first found her, no more than a child, in answer to his own visions. His filmy eyes were fixed on her own. Bidithal, remember that child? The one you used so brutally that first and only night, to scourge from her all pleasures of the flesh. You broke her within her own body, left scars that felt nothing, that were senseless. The child would not be distracted, no children of her own, no man at her side who could wrest loyalty away from the goddess." - (DG, UK mmpb, p.751)
"The quarrel struck her forehead an inch above her left eye. The iron head shattered the bone, punging inward a moment before the spring-driven barbs opened like a deadly flower inside her brain. The quarrel's head then struck the inside of the back of her skull, exiting explosively. Sha'ik toppled." - (DG, UK mmpb, p.204)
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