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Fýredel
Chassar is a mage with the Priory of the Orange Tree. A kind and jovial man, he helped to raise Ead, and she sees him as a father figure. By posing as an ambassador for King Jantar of the Ersyr, Chassar maintains contact with foreign courts. He has several birds who help him carry out his work, namely Sarsun and Parspa. While Chassar initially appears willing to go along with Mita Yedanya’s takeover of the Priory, Chassar ultimately helps Ead and then Tané carry out their goals, undermining Mita.
Chassar uq-Ispad Quotes in The Priory of the Orange Tree
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Chapter 14 Quotes
All sisters knew about the lost years. Not long after vanquishing the Nameless One and founding the Priory, the Mother had left on unknown business and perished before she could make her way home. Her body had been returned to the Priory. No one knew who had sent it.
One small faction of sisters believed that the Mother had gone to join her suitor, Galian Berethnet, and had a child with him, establishing the House of Berethnet. This idea, unpopular in the Priory, was the founding legend of Virtudom—and what had landed Ead in Inys.
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‘Well,’ Chassar said, ‘most sisters believe that the Mother left to protect the Priory from some unnamed threat.’ He pressed his lips together. ‘I will write to the Prioress and tell her what Fýredel said. She may be able to solve this riddle.’
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Chapter 32 Quotes
‘Despite their fear,’ Chassar continued, ‘the Lasian people did not want to convert to this new religion. Cleolind told the knight as much and refused both his terms. Yet Galian was so overcome with greed and lust that he fought the beast nonetheless.’
Loth almost choked. ‘There was no lust in his heart. His love for Princess Cleolind was chaste.’
‘Try not to be irritating, my lord. Galian the Deceiver was a brute. A power-hungry, selfish brute. To him, Lasia was a field from which to reap a bride of royal blood and adoring devotees of a religion he had founded, all for his own gain. He would make himself a god and unite Inysca under his crown.’
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Chapter 34 Quotes
She had never been meant to harbour anything more than indifference towards this woman. Yet she knew now that when Chassar returned, it would be hard to go. Sabran would need a friend more than ever. Roslain and Katryen would be preoccupied with the newborn, and would talk of nothing but blankets and cradles and milk nurses for months. Sabran would not weather that time well. She would go from being the sun of her court to the shadow behind a child.
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Chassar uq-Ispad Character Timeline in The Priory of the Orange Tree
The timeline below shows where the character Chassar uq-Ispad appears in The Priory of the Orange Tree. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6
...Sabran asks Ead for her opinion. Ead deems him handsome, and Sabran asks questions about Ambassador uq-Ispad (who brought Ead to Inys) and the Ersyr. Sabran insists that the ambassador is a...
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...has to mind her behavior. Ead hides Truyde’s items and then writes a letter to Chassar, telling him in code about the attack on Sabran. He hasn’t responded at all in...
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Chapter 14
...for his arrival. As nobles arrive for the festivities, Ead keeps an eye out for Chassar uq-Ispad, who poses as the ambassador to King Jantar and Queen Saimya of the Ersyr....
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...when he was two years old. Then, Sabran greets Oscarde and Oscarde’s mother, Lady Aleidine—and Chassar appears behind the other ambassadors. He brings regards from High Ruler Kagudo, who rules Lasia...
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Just then, a knight asks for Ead to join Chassar outside. Ead joins him on the terrace, and he envelops her in a hug, calling...
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...Lady of the Bedchamber, where she can protect Sabran with a blade instead of magic. Chassar shares that the old Prioress has died, and Mita Yedanya has taken her place as...
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Heavily, Chassar shares that Ead’s childhood friend Jondu has gone missing. Mita Yedanya had sent her to...
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Chapter 19
...himself with the Draconic plague, travel across the mountains, and take an iron box to Chassar uq-Ispad. She explains how they captured a woman in a red cloak attempting to take...
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Chapter 28
...crowds in the Ersyr’s capital, Rauca, with the ichneumon, heading for the Ivory Palace, where Chassar uq-Ispad works as an ambassador. But the ichneumon drags Loth to a covered market. There,...
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Chapter 30
...who genuinely hated the Berethnets, including Aubrecht’s killer, Bess Weald, got involved. Ead writes to Chassar of the assassination attempt, knowing the Prioress will be unhappy. Sabran locks herself in her...
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Chapter 32
...and pulls on a robe. When he turns around, a woman invites him to join Chassar for a meal. The underground passages she leads him through are nothing like what Ead...
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Loth enters a room and joins Chassar at a table. Chassar informs Loth that he’s no longer in Rauca: he’s in Lasia,...
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Chassar continues: Lasians didn’t want to convert, and Cleolind told Galian no. Greedy Galian attempted to...
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Chassar explains that the Priory slays wyrms, and the Prioress fears that Loth killed a sister,...
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Chapter 36
...Sabran looks serious and intense, rather than sad. Ead considers briefly what the Prioress and Chassar might think of her, loving the queen of Inys, but then she and Sabran kiss....
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...her ladies for a few hours. Alone in the library, Ead drafts a letter to Chassar, a coded request to stay in Inys longer. As she’s leaving the library at dusk,...
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Chapter 37
...He knows now that she’s the “watcher in the night,” and he suspects that she’s Chassar’s spy.
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Chapter 39
...Parspa, the last known hawiz (birds that can grow to the size of a wyvern). Chassar raised Parspa. Now, Ead climbs onto the bird, who flies south. They reach Lasia and...
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Ead wakes up in a bed, terrified. Chassar is there to comfort her, and Ead tries to tell him about Sabran. He insists...
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...death. The current Prioress, Mita Yedanya, greets Ead and invites her to sit next to Chassar. Mita asks Ead to explain what happened when Ead left Inys.
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Ead tells Mita and Chassar about Truyde and Truyde’s theory about cosmic balance. Chassar suggests it does make sense—the orange...
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...she knows Mita is just trying to buy her compliance. Ead asks about Jondu, and Chassar revealed that Jondu died. He shows Ead the box Jondu had, which has a riddle...
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Chapter 41
...scroll. Ead touches the jewel and screams—it binds to her, like ice. Ead passes out. Chassar takes her to her room, and when she wakes, the jewel lets go of her...
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Mita wonders aloud why someone buried the box with the key in Inys. Chassar suggests she was trying to protect it from Kalyba, but Mita silences him. She continues...
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Chapter 43
The armorer provides Ead with weapons as Chassar assures Ead that Kalyba is powerful, but not all-powerful—she hasn’t eaten from the tree in...
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Back at the Priory, Ead tells Mita and Chassar about her journey. Mita insists Kalyba is a liar—it’s ridiculous to talk about two strands...
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...the Mother’s tomb, Mita and all the sisters at the Priory are gathered, along with Chassar. Mita welcomes Ead to the Red Damsels, and Ead pledges herself to the Mother. Usually...
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Chapter 44
That night, Ead finds Chassar in his chambers and demands to know what Loth is doing here. Sighing, Chassar explains...
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Ead storms out to go see Mita herself, ignoring Chassar’s warnings. Mita appears in the hallway, and she insists that Ead must go to Ungulus...
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Chapter 52
...King Sigoso. Ead calmly gives her full name, Eadaz du Zāla uq-Nāra, and admits that Chassar brought her here to be Sabran’s bodyguard. She’s a mage and a member of the...
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Chapter 65
...killed a Damsel—if Tané can’t answer, she’ll be executed. Tané says she’ll only speak with Chassar, and the woman leaves. Chassar appears a while later, and Tané says she needs an...
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Chapter 66
Ead is surprised when Tané reveals that Chassar and Parspa helped her reach Inys, given the Priory’s prejudice against “wyrm-lovers.” Tané notes that...
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Chapter 74
...the Privy Chamber. Ead reveals that a few days ago, she got a letter from Chassar. In it, he apologizes for not protecting her—and reveals that the Red Damsels want her...
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