Allaria Strongwind Greysea

Allaria was born to Miranda and Eldon Strongwind and is the same age as Agrona, Arya, Rhiannon, and Alastar. Eldon was a Ranger. Miranda was a Weather Mage. Allaria became both and, when Ryder brought Arya to camp, Allaria took her as her protégé, watching with pride when her friend and protégé became the bow mistress and Ryder’s second-in-command.

Allaria had long been the court Weather Mage by the time Ithel and Rhiannon were killed, and the council kept her in employment so that she could advise their new ruler when the lost princess was eventually found.

Three years after Ithel and Rhiannon were brutally murdered, Allaria married Lord Niall Greysea. A year later, she gave birth to their first daughter, Adamina. One more daughter followed when Adamina was thirteen, named Cadi.

When Tesni became queen, Allaria was kept on as the court Weather Mage, monitoring Linwood’s weather systems, as well as those of the other kingdoms for purposes of travel. Allaria continued in her duties as a Ranger, however, taking first Adamina and then Cadi as protégés. After Arya was killed, Allaria took back her former role as bow mistress, though she had no intentions of keeping the role, preferring her role as weather mage instead.

Not long after Arya was killed, Allaria found herself in Rose Hollow with Cadi, now seventeen, as well as Finn, Aysun, another Ranger named Cefin, and two Shield Maidens, Vígdís and Sigrid. While they were there, a raid, led by Drusus, the oldest son of the warlord Bhimar, resulted in the death of Cefin and the kidnapping of Sigrid.

While Vígdís went with Aysun to Seos, Allaria and Cadi returned to the Ranger camp with Finn.

Part of the group that went to Yewsel, Allaria helped Tesni to train, and together, they created a spiraling column of wind and flame. At about this time, Allaria also began training her younger granddaughter, Briallen, who was showing signs that she had inherited the weathermage abilities, and stronger than Adamina, Cadi, or Seren.

After the war, Allaria continued training her granddaughter, and happily gave over the role of Bow Mistress to her older daughter, who had proven herself more than capable of handling the role.