Ais
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| Oficio | Trackt | ||||||
| Residencia | Kezare | ||||||
| Etnia | de Kerzta | ||||||
| Nacionalidad | de Lossand | ||||||
| Mundo natal | Taldain | ||||||
| Universo | Cosmere | ||||||
“Sirvo a la justicia, Lokmlen. Y la justicia pertenece solo al Señor de la Arena. ”
—Ais[1]
Ais era una trackt superior en la capital de Lossand, Kezare, en el Lado Diurno de Taldain. Está casada con Mellis y tiene una hija, Melloni. Se crió en un orfanato.[2]
Personalidad y apariencia
Ais tiene una personalidad muy seria y sombría, aunque reserva un lado más suave para su familia. Se preocupa mucho por su familia y sus colegas. A pesar de una relación de dieciocho años con la jueza suprema Heelis, Ais mantiene un aire de formalidad en presencia de la mujer.[1] Su disposición parece lastrada por su incapacidad para atrapar a Sharezan, el temor por la seguridad de su familia a manos de sus enemigos y un sentimiento de culpa por su falta de fervor religioso. Ais también alberga emociones extremas derivadas de un profundo conflicto interno entre su deber como trackt, su fe Ker'reen y mantener a salvo a su familia. La mayor parte del tiempo mantiene reprimidas estas emociones, mientras busca una sensación de control sobre sí misma.[3][2]
Ais tiene el pelo castaño hasta los hombros, ojos oscuros y piel morena. Lleva pendientes y un tocado kerztiano engastado con una gema azul. Lleva el uniforme negro de un trackt, con una capa negra que marca su rango. Lleva espada y zinkall cuando está de servicio.[1]
“En toda mi vida solo he querido tener contol, pero parece lo único que jamás obtendré.”
—Ais, a su marido.[3]
- Imágenes de Ais
de Botanicaxu Retrato
de Julius Gopez En la portada de Arena Blanca Volumen 2
de Fritz Casas En la portada de Arena Blanca Volumen 3
Historia
Ais llevaba tiempo persiguiendo al lord del crimen Sharezan en Kezare. Creía que la verdadera identidad de Sharezan era Nilto, pero no había podido encontrar ninguna prueba. Una reciente incursión dejó a once de sus hombres muertos o heridos, incluyendo a su segundo al mando, Jedan. Esto, unido a una amenaza dirigida a su familia, desanimó a Ais.[1]
“No te confundas, Ry'Kensha. Te protejo por deber, no por inclinación. Te odio. Odio a los tuyos.
Cualqiuer otro día habría aplaudido a esos hombres. Puedes intentar ganarte mi favor. Puedes mostrarte amistoso. Puedes tratar de reír conmigo, demostrarme que no eres lo que yo creía. Hasta puedes salvarme la vida. Nada de eso me hará cambiar de opinión. Eres todo el mal que puebla las arenas, lord mastrell. Si llega el momento, quiero dejarte clara una cosa...
Antes moriría que vivir con la vergüenza de que me rescaten tus pérfidos poderes.”
—Ais, to Kenton, following the first assassination attempt.[4]
Heelis ordenó a Ais que siguiera y espiara al lord mastrell en funciones,Kenton, con el pretexto de ofrecerle protección.[1] A pesar de su odio hacia maestría de la arena, su sentido del deber la obligó a hacer todo lo que estuviera en su mano para protegerlo de los asesinos que repetidamente enviaban tras él, aunque en privado apoyaba sus ideales.[3][4] Ais viajó a la arena profunda con Kenton y Aarik para reunirse con el lord general Raagent, pero no estaba cerca de Kenton cuando fue atacado por un asesino kerztiano cerca de la frontera de la arena profunda.[5]
Mientras la mayor parte de su atención se centraba en proteger y observar a Kenton, Ais seguía dirigiendo los esfuerzos por localizar a Sharezan a través de Tain, su nuevo segundo al mando.[5][6] En un intento de proteger a su familia, Ais pidió a Mellis que alejara a Melloni de Kezare hasta que capturara a Sharezan, sin embargo su marido no estaba dispuesto a marcharse. Ais aprovechó la invitación de la jueza suprema Heelis para asistir a la fiesta del lord almirante Delius en la que anunció el respaldo del Timón al Diem.[3] Ais también fue testigo del uso que Kenton hizo de arena dominada para salvar a los trabajadores de la dama constructora cuando su proyecto de construcción se derrumbó.[7] Después de lo cual puso a la jueza Heelis al corriente de los casos del Diem y Sharezan, pidiéndole consejo sobre la moralidad de su misión; pero le recordaron que la Sala juzga la ley, no la moralidad.[6]
Following the fourth assassination attempt on Kenton, at the restaurant, Ais stayed behind to search for clues as to who was sending the assassins (and get a look at the damage done by Jon Acron's pistol). Instead, she discovered an anonymous note from one of Sharezan's contacts asking for protection to testify against Sharezan.[8]
When she tried to leave the Diem to go meet with the anonymous informant, Kenton manipulated Ais into allowing him to accompany her. After leaving a note to her husband at home, they went to an abandoned warehouse. When they heard somebody approaching with a limp, Ais assumed it to be Nilto and guessed that the meeting was a trap. They escape the warehouse right before it is blown up with napthani flame. Ais laments the setback in proving Nilto is Sharezan.[8]
Ais traveled with Kenton and Khrissalla's party to Lraezare to find Lord Merchant Vey. As a representtive of the Hall, Ais witnessed Kenton's discovery that the ledger wasn't money owed by the Diem, but rather money owed to the Diem by the office of the Lord Merchant. She also witnessed Kenton forgiving that debt, as it was perpetuated immorally. She then witnessed Lord Delius' removal from the office of Lord Admiral, and the legality of his ownership transfer of the merchant fleet he had his son maintain.[9] During the assassination attempt on the ship returning to Kezare, she was locked below-deck with Baon and could not protect her charge, but successfully lobbied to, at least, give the dead assassins a proper Ker'reen burial.[10]
Ais travelled to the Tower to help locate the missing Lord General, despite Gremt's insistance that the Tower did not want to involve tracts. She discovered blood in Raagent's room and noticed the missing shalrim sheets, and deduced that he could not have been removed from the grounds with so many guards. When they investigate the wine cellar, a place most Daysiders avoid because of the darkness of a lightless cellar, She discovered the Lord General's corpse and realized that he showed signs of the type of torture that Sharezan prefers. Ais then realized that Raagent must have been her anonymous informant since he was also limping due to injuries incurred during the deep sand hunt.[10]
After returning to the Hall, Tain informed her that he had found Sharezan. Tain handed her a zinkall and asked her to join him on the raid. When Ais asked how he figured it out, Tain said that it was Lokmlen's confession that gave it away. When they arrived in the alleged hideout, Tain raised his zinkall to Ais' head and revealed himself to be Sharezan. A shocked Ais admitted her surprise at this revelation and that she had suspected Nilto. Ais tried to use the zinkall he gave her to kill him, but it puffed and failed. Sharezan laughed at the fact that she had trusted him when he gave her the weapon, but that if it had been Nilto she wouldn't have trusted the weapon. One of his men knocked Ais to the ground and, knowing that Ais had a raging emotional conflict inside her, Sharezan gloated to her about the "project" he had planned for her.[2]
“Duty? Or Family? If I waste any more time, all of them will die.”
—Ais, racing away from Sharezan's warehouse.[2]
Sharezan told Ais that, due to her work, his operation in Kezare had been fatally compromised and that he would soon be taking some time off, but he wanted to indulge in a hobby of his before he left. He told her that he had Lokmlen plant a firetrap in the orphanage in which Ais was raised and that he was also going to attack "a more personal connection"; she wouldn't have time to save both. Then, leaving her with this dilemma, he ran off after instructing his men to hold her for one minute and then let her go.[2]
When they released her, Ais ran into the streets in a panic, breathing erratically. She desperately searched for and found a trackt on the street and, between gasps, told him to go secure the orphanage and search for a firetrap. Then, out of breath and dejected that she condemned her family, she stumbled to her house. When she neared the house she heard a loud banging sound coming from inside; in a panic and afraid of what she would find, she ran upstairs. When she got inside she saw Tain, holding a sword, being thrown through a wall by Kenton. Kenton, holding Tain immobile with mastered sand, told her that Mellis and Melloni were safe and that this "assassin" was about to kill them. Kenton then explained that he had come to warn her that she might be a target of the assassins who had killed Raagent. When Ais told him that this attacker was really Sharezan, Kenton moved to kill him; however Ais stopped him, saying that Sharezan must face proper justice. Ais thanked Kenton, despite believing that doing so would make her a heretic.[2]
After her run-in with Sharezan, Ais decided to leave the trackts, but Lady Judge Heelis asked her to remain on duty one more day until after the council's meeting about the Diem. Heelis then asked Ais to attend Kenton's duel with her. Ais reluctantly agreed. After the duel, when the Taishin voted on whether to disband the Diem, Lady Judge Heelis gave her vote to Ais, claiming that because she was biased for the Diem—then the Hall's vote should be cast by somebody biased against the Diem, because she wanted Kenton to prove that he could win over even the people most firmly set against him. Ais recalls her outburst at the Lord Mastrell after the first assassination attempt, but reasons that he saved something more impoertant than her life—her family. And he did so while abiding by her terms. Ais decided to vote to maintain the Diem, making the vote unanimous and saving the Diem.[11]
Ais departs the arena feeling that she has now betrayed both her family and her god. Realizing that the assassins had to have been controlled by somebody with access to the Diem, she returns in time to hear Kenton's confrontation with Elorin and tells Kenton that she can attest his actions were in self-defense.[11]
Now a civilian, Ais tells Mellis that she wants to travel to Ker Kedasha. Mellis insists on joining her, no matter how Lossandins are treated in Kerzta.[12]
Curiosidades
- En la versión original en prosa de Arena Blanca, Ais era un hombre, y Mellis era su esposa. Esto se cambió para hacer más interesante al personaje.[13]
Notas
- ↑ a b c d e Arena Blanca capítulo 6#
- ↑ a b c d e f Arena Blanca capítulo 17#
- ↑ a b c d Arena Blanca capítulo 11#
- ↑ a b Arena Blanca capítulo 8#
- ↑ a b Arena Blanca capítulo 10#
- ↑ a b Arena Blanca capítulo 13#
- ↑ Arena Blanca capítulo 12#
- ↑ a b Arena Blanca capítulo 14#
- ↑ Arena Blanca capítulo 15#
- ↑ a b Arena Blanca capítulo 16#
- ↑ a b Arena Blanca capítulo 18#
- ↑ Arena Blanca epílogo#
- ↑ Legion Release Party
— Arcanum - 2018-09-19#