**Spoilers for Avatar**
Alais de la Courcel is Ysandre and Drustan's younger
daughter. She is born in the winter after Sidonie's first birthday,
making her almost two years younger than her older sister (KM 125;
trust my math skills). Alais looks like her father, almost purely
Cruithne, save that she has inherited her mother's purple L'Envers
eyes.
**Spoilers for Scion, Justice, Mercy**
As the younger daughter, as well as the less-D'Angeline-looking one,
Alais often feels out of place at court. She loves Imriel as a brother
and thoroughly enjoys Eamonn mac Grainne's company, because
both of them treat her as her own person rather than a visible
reminder of the "pollution" of Elua's bloodline.
Alais dreams true dreams as well, an inheritance from Drustan, because
the daughters of Necthana's line have the gift. A dream of a man with
two faces comes true when Imriel is in Lucca; a dream of Imriel in a
snowstorm comes true in Vralia; and a nightmare about a bear may or
may not have been a true dream about Berlik. Alais also dreams that
Imriel will be her real brother, which comes true when he weds Sidonie
at the end of Mercy.
At first, Alais is betrothed to Drustan's nephew and heir (her first
cousin), Talorcan. The wedding is delayed several times for
various reasons: Alais wanted more training in understanding her
dreams; she wanted to rule Alba at Talorcan's side; she wanted her
children to inherit. After Alais was called back to Terre d'Ange to
act as regent during Mercy, she decided she wanted no part of
ruling a country and announced her desire to become an ollamh, an
Alban bard/judge/historian, a rank which is the equivalent of a
Cruarch. Additionally, Drustan's older sister, Breidaia, agrees
to adopt Alais as her daughter, which means that her children will be
eligible as Talorcan's heirs.
**not actually so much spoilers as background information presented in
Naamah's Kiss as history**
Alais marries Conor mac Grainne, son of the Lady Grainne
of the Dalriada and Ferghus, a harpist of the Maghuin Dhonn.
She becomes known as Alais the Wise in Alba. Alais and Conor have
several children, one of whom inherits as Cruarch. The others melt
back into the Maghuin Dhonn to live in the wild places of Alba. The
protagonist of Naamah's Kiss, Moirin, is the daughter of
Fainche and is the great-great-granddaughter of Alais and Conor.
(Alais gives birth to Brianna who gives birth to Eithne
who gives birth to Fainche who gives birth to Moirin.) A trust fund
exists for Alais's descendants; Moirin is the first one to make a
claim on it.
Timeline A timeline
of Chosen thru Mercy in terms of Imriel, Sidonie, and
Alais's ages can be found
here.
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