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Luna Torquill is the Duchess of Shadowed Hills and the wife of Sylvester Torquill. She is the youngest daughter of Blind Michael and Acacia. She first appears in Rosemary and Rue.

About[]

While wearing her kitsune skin, Luna is small and slender with waist-length braided brown hair, silver-furred ears, and three fox tails. When Toby initially thought Luna was a Kitsune, she was remarked as the only half-Caucasian Kitsune she had ever seen. Her arms are strong from hours of gardening, and she is able to turn into a four-legged fox. Her personality is sweet and egalitarian, influenced by the Kitsune skin.

As a Blodynbryd she is taller with pink hair, ivory white skin, and pollen-yellow eyes. She is distinctly non-mammalian, instead taking on many plant properties. She becomes much more bitter and harsh after she loses her Kitsune skin permanently, even more so after Rayseline is elf-shot. At this point, she's not above being racist when things don't go her way, dismissing Toby as a changeling when she attempted to claim offense against Raysel.

Luna has a remarkable affinity for gardening. She can make almost any plant grow, and lives by a diurnal schedule in order to tend her roses; Sylvester's schedule reflects hers.[1] In Shadowed Hills she has a dozen rose gardens she tends to all by herself, and the roses all but bow to her. One in particular, the Garden of Glass Roses, is filled with scentless, stained-glass buds.[2] Unlike many nobles, Luna does not stand on ceremony and can often be found in her gardening clothes.

She is also "mother" to a of a collection of rose goblins which roam Shadowed Hills. She creates them from cuttings of her hair.[citation needed] She chooses to be amused when Toby names one of the rose goblins and it shifts its allegiance.

Biography[]

Before the Novels[]

Luna is the youngest daughter of two Firstborn, Blind Michael and Acacia. She was terrorized by her father until she was able to steal the skin of a Kitsune girl named Hoshibara whom she killed out of mercy to spare her from her father; from there, she escaped Blind Michael's Realm and lost contact with her mother.[3]

She met Sylvester and they married sometime before the 1840s. She traveled in his social circles, becoming acquaintences with the like of Amandine, Simon, and Patrick Twycross.[4] They had a daughter, Rayseline, around the 1980s.

Rosemary and Rue[]

In 1995, Luna and Rayseline are captured by Simon Torquill acting on the orders of Evening Winterrose. He stashes them away in a tiny, lightless skerry to wait out the next decade before they were presumably released or the magic wore off.[5] Throughout the captivity, Luna endlessly told her daughter that Toby would save them.[6] Luna returned from captivity "sadder and stranger," but sane; Rayseline suffered more acutely.[7] They are released around 2006.

Once all three have been freed from Simon's clutches, Luna welcomes Toby back into her home and doesn't seem to blame her for failing to find them. She is upset when Toby indebts herself to Home as part of the quest to find Evening's killer, and shows Toby kindness whenever Toby stops by Shadowed Hills. She is the one who tells Toby how to find the Luidaeg, and encourages Toby to seek the sea-witch for help.[8] When Toby brings her the frightened Dare and Manuel Lorimer, she agrees to give them hospitality.

A Local Habitation[]

Luna checks in with Toby when she checks in at the hotel in Fremont, having Quentin remind her to order something from room service to eat.

She attends January's funeral with Sylvester and Rayseline, consoling Toby when she feels guilty that she wasn't able to save January.

An Artificial Night[]

Luna acts strangely during Toby's quest to free the stolen children from Blind Michael, and sends her to the Luidaeg for help. Sylvester is angry at Luna when he discovers this, thinking she sent Toby to her death. Luna refuses to dispel the charm that makes Toby child-sized, and admits she sent Toby on her quest not expecting her to come back. When Toby gives her a rose from Acacia, it transforms Luna into her Blodynbryd form. Later, Luna apologizes for lying about her heritage but says she did it for protection from Blind Michael, whom she begs for Toby to kill. Luna notes that the Luidaeg set Toby on the Rose Road, and Luna has Toby prick herself with a thorn to continue her journey.

After Blind Michael is defeated, Luna and Acacia stay in touch with one another.

Late Eclipses[]

Luna mysteriously becomes ill, collapsing at Shadowed Hills's Beltaine Ball. Her distress gives Sylvester a panic attack, and Jin isn't sure how to treat her. Rayseline accuses Toby of harming her mother, and is prepared to blame Toby if Luna dies. However, it is revealed that Rayseline poisoned the soil of Luna's roses with salt with Manuel's help in an attempt to kill and usurp her mother. Though Walther manages to treat her condition long enough for Acacia to restore her back to full strength, Luna loses her Kitsune skin and is purely Blodynbryd again.

One Salt Sea[]

Luna defends Toby's actions to the Queen of the Mists using her personal knowledge of her grandfather Oberon to reinforce her argument. She is greatly pained that Raysel is revealed to have kidnapped the Lorden boys.

Ashes of Honor[]

Luna opens one of the Rose Roads for Toby and Tybalt to follow in an attempt to rescue Raj. The strain between her relationship with Toby is clear. She is shocked to discover they visited Annwn on the journey, remembering the Faerie land from her youth.

The Winter Long[]

Luna is one of only two people at Shadowed Hills who manage to escape Evening's influence, mostly because of the strength of her roses and her childhood experience in defying Firstborns. She finally reveals how angry she is a Toby for her and Raysel's fate and in exchange for confirming Evening's status as Firstborn, Luna orders Toby to shift the balance in Raysel's blood. Though Toby succeeds, Luna snaps and accuses Toby of murdering her daughter. Tybalt eases the tension and Luna confirms Toby's suspicions.

Toby convinces Luna to open the Rose Roads on the debt of saving her life and freeing her from the rule of her father; she had never claimed those debts before because she thought they were friends. Luna does it and says her debts are paid, and that it has cost Toby more than she can know. Luna uses the Summer Roads Key that the Luidaeg leaves Toby to open a door to where the Luidaeg and Evening are fighting.

Once Broken Faith[]

Luna attends the convocation of Westlands monarchs. She is still bitter about Rayseline's elf-shot status, and blames Toby for not curing her when she removed the Kitsune and Blodynbryd from Raysel's blood. Toby hadn't realized she was capable of doing so, though part of her also hadn't wanted Raysel to wake up because of what Raysel did under her mixed blood madness.

The Brightest Fell[]

Sylvester goes against Luna's wishes to wake Simon up so Simon can help on Toby's latest quest. Luna, and Sylvester as well, want Simon to suffer for the pain he's caused their family. After Toby allows Simon to escape, Sylvester warns that Luna will not allow Toby into Shadowed Hills as punishment.

A Killing Frost[]

Luna reappears, furious at Toby returning to Shadowed Hills, even more so when she discovers that she intends on bringing Simon back. Although she opens a Rose Road for Toby to follow and promises Toby that she can come back to the normal realm, she banishes Toby and every one of her associates from Shadowed Hills until Raysel stands trial. She is unaware that Raysel requested Toby to take offence at her trial to escape the expectations of Luna and Sylvester.

When Sorrows Come[]

Toby mentions that the last time she saw Luna was during the petition to awaken Raysel, which had been mysteriously denied by the Luidaeg. A stained glass display of her being courted by Sylvester when she still wore her Kitsune skin is in display at Arden's knowe, with Toby sadly reflecting that she missed that version of Luna.

Be the Serpent[]

Luna and Sylvester attend Raysel's trial. Luna however planned the trial to be on the anniversary of Toby's disappearance to spite Simon, and had even brought Raysel's bier to Arden's knowe fully aware that she wouldn't be denied a second time. She forces Simon to confess his role in Raysel's agony, reminding the Court that had he not done so, she wouldn't have committed the crimes she was standing trial for, despite Simon's confirmation that he did what he could to spare their lives when Evening desired their deaths.

After Raysel is awoken and unbeknownst to her reminds Toby of their promise, she is outraged when Toby claims offense against Raysel for Gillian's ordeal, dismissing her as a changeling like many bigoted purebloods do. She also denies Tybalt, using Gillian's past heritage as being a thinblood-turned-fully human and being unclaimed in the eyes of Faerie as Toby and Tybalt's daughter to support her denial. She however is unable to deny Dianda's request as both her sons are pureblooded and Raysel had also hurt them in the crossfire. She argues when Arden gives October custody of Raysel, and Dianda reminds her and the entirety of Arden's Court that her banishment of Toby was out of spite and not on any legal grounds.

Raysel then reveals to Luna that she told Toby to claim offense so she could get the space she needed. She is last seen glaring at Toby as she and her husband took Raysel to one of Arden's private rooms to reunite.

Sylvester reveals that Luna's loving personality was attributed to her formerly mammallian Kitsune nature, and she lost that capability when Oleander and Raysel had poisoned her.

Relationships[]

Sylvester Torquill[]

Luna's husband of several centuries. Upon marrying, she became the Duchess of Shadowed Hills, although Sylvester is still considered its primary ruler.[9] Sylvester is devoted to her, allowing her to decorate and influence the knowe almost without limits; the only place he exerts design influence is in his personal family quarters. He operates on a diurnal schedule out of love and respect for her gardening habits.[1] After Raysel is elf-shot, Luna grows distant from Sylvester.

Rayseline Torquill[]

Luna's daughter; she was only able to give birth to Rayseline because of her borrowed Kitsune skin, as a Blodynbryd is not mammalian and therefore not naturally compatible with Luna's Daoine Sidhe husband. The two were captured and trapped together for twelve years by Simon Torquill. Luna is fiercely loyal of her daughter even though Rayseline conspired to murder her. Luna understands that Rayseline's madness is partially due to the conflict in her mixed blood, and she bargains with Toby to make Rayseline a balanced and pureblooded fae.[10] She is devastated when Raysel admits that she couldn't recover at Shadowed Hills.

October Daye[]

Throughout her and Rayseline's captivity, Luna kept faith that Toby would rescue them. At first, Luna loved Toby like her own daughter, she was even fearful when she sent her to Blind Michael's skerry. She doesn't seem resentful of Toby's failure to do so, and she even consoles Toby after January's temporary death, but she is furious at Toby for what befalls Rayseline after the latter is elf-shot, blaming her for her circumstances. After Toby lets Simon escape, Luna refuses to allow Toby into Shadowed Hills and exiles Toby herself after she ensures Toby will stand trial for Raysel.

Luna's hatred of Toby hits breaking point when Toby claims offense against Rayseline as promised to the latter, where she angrily dismisses her as a changeling.

Simon Torquill[]

Luna despises her kidnapper and is happy to watch him wait out his elf-shot punishment. She is furious when Toby lets him escape. Despite Simon's confession that what he did was to save both Luna and Raysel, she revels in his forced confession.

Quotes[]

     I stopped, raising my hands. "I won't hurt you. I'm a friend of Luna's. You know Luna, don't you? Of course you know Luna, all the roses know her . . ."
     The Rose Goblin stopped whining, watching me with wide gleaming eyes. Good. Some flower spirits were more closely tied to their origins than others, and rose goblins tend to cling to the plants that birth them. I meant what I said: I've never met a rose that didn't know Luna Torquill. Being a legend to the flowers must be interesting. It certainly keeps her busy during pruning season. I took another step forward. "Are you okay?" — Toby Daye [11]

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