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A MERLIN
VOCABULARY
GUIDE
C for
CWEN
Rhia's oldest friend, Cwen took care of Rhia when she was young.
Cwen is the last survivor of the treelings "- a race of part tree,
part people."
"Cwen was truly more tree than human. Her skin, gnarled and ridged,
looked very much like bark, while her tangled brown hair resembled a
mass of vines. Her root like feet remained unshod, and she wore no
adornment but the silver rings on the smallest of her twelve knobby
fingers. Beneath her robe of white cloth, her body moved like a tree
bending with the wind. Yet her age must have been considerable, for
her back bent like a trunk leaning under a winter's weight of snow, and
her neck, arms, and legs seemed twisted and frail. Even so, the
fragrance of apple blossoms wafted around her. And her recessed
brown eyes, shaped like slender teardrops, shone as bright as the fire."
(p. 123)
Cwen leads the warrior goblins to the Misted Hills to capture the Galator
from Emrys. She wants the Galator because the goblins promised that
she could use the Galator to make herself young again. (p. 176)
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