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Deceased in the novel’s present, Zāla was Ead’s mother and a Red Damsel herself. She was kind and affectionate with Ead, though the Priory of the Orange Tree doesn’t encourage mothers to be so close with their children. Mita Yedanya has always insisted that Kalyba murdered Zāla, but Ead eventually discovers that it was Mita who murdered Zāla and scapegoated Kalyba. Mita took issue, among other things, with Zāla’s belief that the Priory should protect more people than just its own.
Zāla Quotes in The Priory of the Orange Tree
The The Priory of the Orange Tree quotes below are all either spoken by Zāla or refer to Zāla . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 39 Quotes
‘Prioress, Ead said, frustrated, ‘surely the purpose of the Priory is to protect humankind.’
‘By defeating the Draconic evil in this world.’
‘If we mean to defeat that evil, there must be stability in the world. The Priory is the first shield against wyrms, but we cannot win alone,’ Ead stressed. ‘Virtudom has great military and naval strength. The only way to hold it together, and to prevent it from destroying itself from within, is to keep Sabran Berethnet alive and enthro—’
‘Enough.’
Ead said no more. […]
‘You are strong-willed, Eadaz. Like Zāla was,’ the Prioress said, softer. ‘I respected our last Prioress in her decision to station you in Inys. She believed it was what the Mother wanted…but I believe otherwise. It is time to prepare. Time to look to our own, and make ready for war.’
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Zāla Character Timeline in The Priory of the Orange Tree
The timeline below shows where the character Zāla appears in The Priory of the Orange Tree. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 39
...of time to prop up Inys, and Ead is just being headstrong, like her mother Zāla was.
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Chapter 41
...an idea. At night, she slips out of her room, walking past the room where Zāla died. Though Priory mothers don’t spend much time with their children (the Priory is “one...
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...after all, so she may have created the jewel. Mita notes that Kalyba also killed Zāla and isn’t trustworthy, but Ead insists that in order to protect the South, they should...
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Chapter 43
...into a bird in front of Jondu and Ead. Supposedly, she was banished for poisoning Zāla, or maybe the Prioress simply realized that Kalyba was the fabled Lady of the Woods....
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...her weapons. Then, Kalyba says Mita was the one to wrongfully accuse her of killing Zāla. Her siden comes from the hawthorn, but she knows Ead is curious about how she...
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Chapter 46
...asleep. Ead finds the jewel pressed into clay. Mita says that Ead is just like Zāla, who also wanted to protect everyone around the world. Her tone is hateful—and remembering what...
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