Kristabel
Names: KristabelKrissyMistressMistress Kristabelthe mistress of HaxpenMummy
First appears in Book 2: The Temporal Void, chapter 4 (Inigo's Ninth Dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 4Julan's elder daughter; the most desired girl in the city, tall and thin with wild gold-brown hair. She begs to take her sister's place.
- Ch 4Kristabel kisses Edeard's cheek and blesses him, having heard he turned down Ranalee.
- Ch 4Kristabel is Mirnatha's older sister and future Mistress of Haxpen, serene and self-possessed.
- Ch 4Kristabel claims every dance with Edeard at the family party and offers the squad her house, baths and clothes.
- Ch 7Kristabel is a daughter of the Culverit family and Edeard's lover; she is open, imperious yet playful, and shares a mental closeness with him.
- Ch 7Kristabel invited Edeard to the family's beach lodge for a week alone, and they become lovers there.
- Ch 7She plans to change the Grand Council, opposes primogeniture in the families, and refuses to be a mere figurehead for her family.
- Ch 7She can produce cold white flame from her fingers, a technique the families keep quiet, and she teaches it to Edeard.
- Ch 7She urges Edeard to push for permanent banishment of gang masters and lieutenants from Makkathran, arguing only a couple of hundred people cause the real trouble.
- Ch 7She gives Edeard a stylish black constable's dress uniform for the ceremony the next day-to-come, saying he must not look ordinary.
- Ch 7Kristabel is Julan's daughter and Edeard's lover, and she helped persuade Edeard that banishment is workable.
- Ch 7Kristabel is miserable in her bedroom, having expected Edeard to ask for her hand after their week together.
- Ch 7Kristabel believed Edeard had deliberately ignored the meaning of their week together; learning he didn't know, she was relieved and wanted to marry him.
- Ch 7Kristabel refuses to let Edeard ask her father that day, saying he is acting from guilt and must think properly about marriage first.
- Ch 7Kristabel gives Edeard a large sum of coinage to pay Nanitte, making light of it; Edeard feels terrible asking.
- Ch 7Kristabel loves Edeard and cared for him while he recovered; she advises him to be careful about what he reveals.
- Ch 9Kristabel comes from a noble family with a ziggurat mansion and sneaks home each dawn, with relatives pretending she slept in her room.
- Ch 9Kristabel loves Edeard, urges him to make his own decisions rather than rely on past authorities like the Pythia, and is well informed about noble politics.
- Ch 9Kristabel reacts to meeting Salrana with chilling composure, then asks to go home.
- Ch 9Kristabel is the direct heir of a District Master; her marriage requires Upper Council approval, an old law now treated as formality.
- Ch 9Kristabel accepted Edeard's proposal and had many suitors before him, though her father did not arrange a fiancé for her.
- Ch 9Kristabel studied law under Master Ravail for five years from age fourteen and is to become Mistress of a district.
- Ch 9Kristabel thinks Buate's fight-back is inevitable and approves Edeard's plan to crush the gang leadership before the election.
- Ch 9Kristabel made Edeard promise to be careful, and promised in return to stay home on the top floor under extra guards.
- Ch 9Kristabel feels guilty, as the idea of driving the gangs into Sampalok was hers, and offers to organize doctors through the Medical Guild's Grand Master.
- Ch 9Kristabel is Edeard's love and is to be Mistress of Haxpen, though she doubts she wants it under Owain's one nation rule.
- Ch 9Kristabel brings doctors to Mid Pool to aid victims and agrees to ask her father to send a supply ship; she is Edeard's love.
- Ch 12Kristabel is managing the relocation of Culverit relatives, including eleven sets of third-floor cousins, to make room for her marriage to Edeard.
- Ch 12Senior members of Grand Families such as Kristabel consider it bad form to vote because they already hold enough power.
- Ch 12Kristabel hopes to become pregnant but fears she is not yet, since vinak juice lingers in the blood after stopping it.
- Ch 12Kristabel urges Edeard to go to the provinces if needed, so that their future children can live in a safe world.
- Ch 12Kristabel, Edeard's wife, died by jumping from the mansion's top stairs with her father and Mirnatha to escape Owain's men, who raped and killed.
- Ch 12Kristabel's soul stayed to see Edeard one last time before going to the nebulae to seek the Heart.
- Ch 12Kristabel is Edeard's wife, now a soul; she urges him to act and promises they will be together in the Heart.
- Ch 12Kristabel is Edeard's wife; she senses patterns in the Void and shares her perception so he can see the past.
- Ch 14Kristabel is Edeard's wife and is studying family ledgers in a study being reshaped in the Culverit ziggurat.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 5Kristabel is Edeard's wife and a Grand Council member; she is frequently angry lately, currently over amendments to a trade bill by Master Ronius of Tosella.
- Ch 5Kristabel no longer tolerates any mention of Salrana in the Culverit ziggurat.
- Ch 5Kristabel is Edeard's wife; she runs Haxpen and coaches him through social events, enforcing a quota of couples he must talk to.
- Ch 5Kristabel is Mistress of Haxpen and sits on the Upper Council in Finitan's voting bloc; she resents the Grand Family setup.
- Ch 7Kristabel is Edeard's wife with seven children; she reasons that Tathal is the key and that the nest is just a gang under him.
- Ch 9Kristabel is Edeard's wife; she cut her hair short on the voyage and the Culverit estate paid for the flotilla.
- Ch 9Kristabel rebukes Edeard for his 'intolerable burden' moods, saying the voyage had returned him to his true self.
- Ch 9Kristabel has changed since the return and blames Edeard for it.
- Ch 11Kristabel and Edeard's children, grandchildren, Macsen and Kanseen are the resistance against his unified rule, whose minds he has not broken.
- Ch 13Kristabel is Edeard's wife, whom he met on the day of Mirnatha's kidnapping during the Festival of Guidance; she is old and accompanies him in guidance.
Connections
- family ofJulanfather
- family ofMirnathasisters
- partner ofEdeardhis wife
- member ofCulverit family
- family ofLorinfather
- family ofPythiadistantly related
- friend ofEdeard
- family ofEdeardwife
- ally ofGrand Master Finitanpart of his voting bloc
- enemy ofEdeardleads resistance against his rule in the future timeline
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 4Kristabel pleads with Edeard
Kristabel asks Edeard to offer herself in exchange; he promises to bring Mirnatha back and she kisses his cheek.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Triumphant return home
Edeard carries Mirnatha by gondola along the canals past cheering crowds to the Culverit mansion, where Julan and Kristabel are reunited with her and invite the squad to a feast.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Night at the Poilus Theater
After a Culverit party, Edeard and Kristabel join his squad at the Poilus to hear Dybal's band, dancing, drinking and smoking kestric.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Kristabel proposes the beach lodge week
In the gondola home, Kristabel suggests they become lovers during a week at her family's beach lodge, and Edeard eagerly agrees.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Trip to the beach lodge
Edeard and Kristabel travel south with a large retinue to the Culverit beach lodge, where they spend their first night as lovers and discuss exploring the world by sea.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Week at the beach lodge
Edeard and Kristabel spend a week at a coastal lodge, swimming, making love, and teaching each other fire techniques while discussing politics and Edeard's curiosity about the world.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Kristabel urges banishment
Kristabel argues that Edeard must carry exclusion forward into permanent banishment of gang masters, offering ships or wagons to send them away. Edeard is troubled but moved.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Uniform gift
On their last day, Kristabel gives Edeard a black constable's dress uniform for the ceremony in the city, and he dresses in it.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Finitan's Mayoral plan
Edeard tells Finitan and Julan he favors banishment of gang members; Finitan decides to run for Mayor on that pledge and plans a public announcement.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Edeard learns of the marriage custom
Kanseen reveals that a week away together means Edeard was expected to ask Kristabel's father for her hand; the whole city expects it and Kristabel is miserable.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Edeard proposes to Kristabel
Learning the meaning of 'a week and the day', Edeard sneaks past Lorin's guards and proposes. Kristabel accepts in principle but insists he think it through before approaching her father.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Nanitte sells information on the guns
Nanitte comes to Edeard's home, bargains, and exchanges information about Buate's imminent gun purchase for money from Kristabel.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Edeard wakes
Edeard wakes two days later, learns the guns came from the Weapons Guild, and is reunited with his friends.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Edeard's soul dream
Edeard wakes from another dream of souls rising from Makkathran; Kristabel comforts him and he reflects on the Lady's scriptures and his unease about the Pythia.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Reunion with the caravan families
Edeard takes Kristabel to meet Barkus's caravan, where Salrana greets him with a passionate kiss, exposing his hidden past. Kristabel is cold, Edeard apologizes, and she asks to go home.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Edeard proposes to Kristabel
Edeard kneels in the mud by a stable and proposes; Kristabel accepts, and stable hands spread the news. She explains the council-approval custom and the elaborate formalities ahead.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Engagement preparations
Julan approves and his household starts arranging the consent bill, the Pythia's blessing, and the engagement party, while Edeard endures two days of planning.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Opera with Kristabel
At the opera, Edeard and Kristabel discuss Bise's refusal to sign, his legal immunity, and Buate's counterattack ahead of the election.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Wedding of Macsen and Kanseen
Edeard prompts Macsen to propose with a ring from the wreckage, and a Mother marries the couple in Sampalok square before the crowd.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Edeard and Kristabel discuss family relocation
At the Culverit mansion, Kristabel explains how the family must be rearranged and cousins moved out ahead of her marriage to Edeard. They lunch with Julan and Mirnatha.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Edeard's wedding wait
At his wedding in the Lady's church, Edeard waits anxiously for the late Kristabel, noting absent Grand Families.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Edeard and Kristabel's wedding
Edeard marries Kristabel in a church ceremony led by the Pythia, attended by guild masters, constables and Mayor Finitan; Salrana sends regrets.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Honeymoon and return
The couple honeymoon twenty days at the Culverit coastal lodge, then return home to the mansion's tenth floor, where Edeard begins reshaping rooms.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Edeard returns to a fallen Makkathran
Edeard races back, learns of Owain's coup and Finitan's death, bypasses the militia by jumping through the crystal wall, and finds Kristabel dead.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Salrana's betrayal
Warned by the souls, Edeard confronts Salrana, who admits she called Owain, scorns him and declares her ambitions. Owain's men and militia surround the mountain.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Makkathran reveals the Void's purpose
The city explains the Void grants a perfect life and tells Edeard to reach into it to begin again. Kristabel shows him the Void's record of his past.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Strange light seen near Alakkad
The Liliala Hall ceiling reveals Gicon's Bracelet with a new moving patch of light near Alakkad. Edeard recognises it with awe and later shows Kristabel through his telescope; she wonders if it is a ship from outside the Void.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Trahaval's party at the Seahall
Edeard and Kristabel work the crowd at Mayor Trahaval's election party, meeting voters, the Apricot Cottage Fellowship's Zanlan, and their daughters.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Edeard's sleepless night
Awake in the tenth-floor bedroom, Edeard reflects on the fading passion in his marriage to Kristabel.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Procession to the tower
Edeard lifts Finitan, and with Dinlay and the doctor they go by gondola to the Lady's church, where the Pythia, Kanseen, Kristabel and Macsen join them heading to a tower.
- Book 3 · Ch 5The Skylord claims Finitan
A vast Skylord flies over Makkathran. The tower flares with light, Finitan's body turns to ash and his spectral soul is taken up by the Skylord to the Heart. The Skylord promises its kindred will return, and Edeard feels he has won.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Meeting in Sampalok
Edeard and Kristabel visit Macsen and Kanseen to discuss the housing crisis caused by the pilgrims awaiting the Skylords.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Edeard agrees to run for Mayor
Pressed by Macsen, Kristabel, Kanseen and Dinlay, Edeard accepts that he will stand for Mayor; Dinlay will organise the campaign.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Eastern isles sighted
After four years at sea, Manel sights the first eastern isle, meaning Makkathran is about a month away.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Flotilla returns to Makkathran
After 38 more days the flotilla reaches Makkathran; Edeard senses thousands of angry people camped outside the north gate, and quarrels with Kristabel over his burden complex.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Edeard's family reunion and births
Edeard greets his family; the twins Marilee and Analee give birth to two daughters and a son and daughter.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Edeard's outburst and return in time
Enraged, Edeard shouts that he must unmake Our City's formation and the voyage, then jumps back to a memory at the foot of the Eyrie tower as a Skylord arrives.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Jiska dies in the shipyard raid
Argian tells Edeard that Jiska was burned in the raid; Edeard rushes to the Neph hospital where his family reveals they are the resistance, and Jiska declares defiance before dying.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Edeard jumps back through the Void's memory
Repenting his tyranny, Edeard reaches back to a much earlier moment and lands at the foot of the Eyrie tower just after defeating Tathal, reconciles with Kristabel and resolves to live differently.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Farewell of the Waterwalker
Edeard bids his huge family farewell in the ziggurat, then travels by gondola through cheering crowds to Eyrie, where Mattuel carries him up the tower.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Edeard takes guidance
Edeard, Kristabel, Macsen, Kanseen and Dinlay are accepted by a Skylord. As their bodies dissolve, Edeard gives the world the gift of travelling back through one's life to begin again.