The Mystery That Is Tridhaon

Now, I don't want to spoil too much about this lovely character's back story, yet I cannot help but take you on a sneak-peek journey to Tridhaon's past, present and future. P.S. There are spoilers!!

Firstly, let's face it (pun intended), I picked a horrible-to-pronounce name for this oh-so-important character. I'll let you in on a secret... she was never meant to be as important as she is now. Or will be. In the first book I needed a goddess to test the seven girls, and so I came up with one. Her name, as you might remember, is split up into three parts like her three old hags form. Here's a snippet from Search for Snow to show you: 'Tria, Dhalia and Aonia giggled as they invisibly slipped through everyone’s fear landscapes, sucking the fear, which was almost like a smell, from the seven girls.'

Tria. Dhalia. Aonia. To be honest, I never wrote down what my reason was for these names, only that when they're beginnings are combined into TRIDHAON it suddenly means 'three people' in Irish. Hmmm, interesting. So there is obviously a method to my madness, despite it being rather mediocre. Before you start judging me, remember I started writing these books in the middle of high school...😁 Anyway, the only thing I do remember is that each hag name was supposed to mean something, like 'the three trials'. Which obviously didn't happen, or I'm missing something...

Next point about the mysterious Tridhaon. How to pronounce her name! The way I say it in my head obviously sounds way different to the way I say it out loud (which ends up more mumbo-jumbo than anything else😂). But I will attempt to teach you how to say Tridhaon's name properly.

TRI (as in tripped, not tri-wizard-tournament😉) - DA (as in ta-da!) - ON (fairly self-explanatory). And there you go, now you can properly say her name just like me! If it makes you feel better, even I have a 50% fail rate so don't feel bad if it gets too tough!

*First spoiler alert!

Now, forget about all I just taught you and let's move on to Moira Orimyar.... 'aaahhh,' you may be thinking, 'another mouthful! Why are you doing this to me?' Calm yourself, my friend, this person is the one and only Tridhaon... just her human self, not her awesome goddess self. And if you just say Moira, it becomes much easier, doesn't it? Moira, a royal daughter, grew up in a city called Cuneyron, which is a major setting in Book 3, Ascent to Ash (which is in the writing!). Cuneyron exists on the second reality and was built by Moira's ancestors, Julian and Irene Orimyar. If those names don't jolt your memory, check out my other blog post about 'exploring back stories and character secrets'. Moira has been a pawn all her life; she's been a good little princess for her parents, married the man of their choice, produced an heir and took over the crown when it was time. But despite all this, there is a magic raging inside her, one she cannot control. Some would call her a psychic, but I called this magic Zeitblick (because I'm German and why not?) Her Zeitblick leads her to catch the attention of the gods and goddesses when she writes a prophecy. And not just any prophecy. THE prophecy. The one that defines the entire future of the world. For that, and that alone, is she raised to godliness, despite what the other celestial beings told her. Her 'punishment' after her son and heir died by her indirect hand was that she got turned into a goddess to keep testing mortals in three trials each. Yet the punishment was more of a divine intervention so she could continue her work with Zeitblick and shape the world for success.

And that's all that I will reveal about Tridhaon's past, present and future.

Thanks for reading!

- Andra K.