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Lydia is a teenage girl who appears in The Brotherband Chronicles. Beautiful.

History[]

Lydia lived in the large harbour-town of Limmat, having lost her parents to the sea shortly after she was born and being raised by her grandfather, Tomas, alone. Though a Limmatan by birth, she is implied to have Temujai heritage. When Zavac and his pirates occupied the town, Lydia's grandpa was killed. She ran from Zavac's pirates, rowing away on a boat and finding the Herons. Soon she was accepted into the crew and became good friends with them all.

The Invaders[]

Lydia first appears when she is out hunting, stalking a deer through the woods near her home where she lives with her grandfather.  She makes a successful kill with her atlatl, a type of weapon which throws sharp darts and is very accurate and deadly.  

She goes back to the town of Limmat to discover that pirates have attacked the town.  Lydia escapes in a small boat which drifts out to sea and is later picked up by the Herons who take her under their wing.  She explains what has happened in the town and the Herons decide to go and see what is going on.

Later Lydia joins up with a soldiers from the village who had escaped from the pirates and were hiding out in the swamps.  One of them, Barrat is very friendly with her, which makes Hal and Stig jealous as they have both developed a crush on Lydia.

Leaving the Limmattian rebels, Lydia fights alongside the Herons in their counterinvasion of Limmat.

At the end of the book, Barrat publicly says that Lydia will marry him. Furious, Lydia decides to leave her hometown. She goes with the Herons, seeking revenge on Zavac for her grandfather's death.

The Hunters[]

In the third book, Lydia continues with the Herons to the Pirate haven, Raguza. She becomes a Heron herself in their adventures. Her skills are very useful to the group and she participates in the fight against Zavac. Lydia returns to Hallasholm with the Herons and is taken in by Karina, Hal Mikkelson's mother.

Slaves of Socorro[]

In the fourth book, Lydia has unwanted attention from one of the members of the Heron Brotherband's old competing brotherband, Rolland, and is eager when the boys invite her to Araluen with them.

When the Herons arrive after chasing Tursgud to Socorro, she helps scout the city with Gilan, and helps buy the rest of the fair-skinned Brotherband disguises, so that they might fit in easier. While investigating a region of the market place where women are banned, Lydia dons one of the disguises, but due to an unfortunate turn of events, is uncovered and the pair are forced to leave quickly.

Later, Lydia is instrumental in the freeing of the slaves, helping Gilan to cause a distraction in the main part of the market, so that some of the Herons would be able to enter relatively unharmed. Then, having been discovered, she helps make a way out of the market and get back safely to the ship

Scorpion Mountain[]

The Ghostfaces[]

The Caldera[]

Return of the Temujai[]

The Stern Chase[]

In the Stern Chase, it is revealed that, shortly after the Temujai invasion, Ingvar proposed to Lydia. Lydia, who's feelings towards Hal and Stig were more sisterly that romantically now, agreed and the two shyly announced their engagement to the startled and delighted community of Hallasholm, Stig and Hal among them.

Description[]

She is a hunter, so she has strong hands, broad shoulders and a lean slim figure.  Her skin is olive coloured, her eyes are hazel and she high cheek bones which hints to a Temujai ancestry. Her hair is black and is said to be glossy. Lydia is very beautiful and has a strong character. She is strong, serious and confident on the outside, but on the inside, seems to be scared to get too close to someone after her grandfather was killed. At the time period in that part of the world, it was very common to have big battles and be raided by other countries. More people could die easier. Lydia however is confident, and she always will be.

Lydia is a strong character and doesn't like to be taken advantage of. She is cunning, strong, intelligent, and she can get herself out of tight situations.

Skills[]

She is an excellent shot with the atlatl, which proves very useful in the fight against Zavac and his pirates. She is agile, and she is extremely intelligent and cunning. She can sneak around silently and is a great tracker due to years of hunting.

Relationships[]

  • Barat: Barat and Lydia have known each other for a long deal of time, the two Limmatans seemingly being family friends. However, while Lydia initially regarded Barat as a friend, she was infuriated when he says she will be his wife, rejecting this and departing from Limmat, cutting off her friendship with him in the process.
  • Hal: She has a close bond with Hal and Stig because she liked them, she thinks Hal is amazing, but felt that he wasn't obvious about his feelings to her so she didn't always know how he felt. She eventually accepted her relationship with Hal to be that of a sibling-like one and becomes engaged to Ingvar, something Hal happily supports.
  • Stig: Stig is a man that she liked, which was hard because she liked Hal too. Stig is very obvious about his affections and would love to be closer to her. After Bird of the Forest's death, however, Stig withdraw from romantic affections, leading to the pair regarding one another as surrogate siblings.
  • Thorn: She teases him and he taunts her in returns, but they are good friends. That's why they tease each other in the first place. They respect each other's skills. During her and Ingvar's wedding, Thorn is to act as a substitute for Lydia's father to give her away to the groom.
  • Ingvar: She has a close relationship with Ingvar, and she is overjoyed when he is alive from his arrow wound. It is hinted that she may have feelings for him, and Ingvar is said to be "sweet on her". This is later confirmed when, after Return of the Temujai, Ingvar proposed to Lydia and she accepted, the two shyly announcing their engagement to Hallasholm to the people delight. As of The Stern Chase, they are engaged
  • The Heron Brotherband: she has journeyed with them. They act like a team, and Lydia is treated as an equal. She regards them as cousin-like figures in her life.
  • Ulf and Wulf: Like the rest of the Herons, Lydia is often amused/exasperated by the twin's seemingly nonsensible arguments and can never tell them apart. Because of her lack of any close girl friends in Hallasholm, Lydia took a liking to the idea of the two being her bridesmen during her wedding to Ingvar, regarding it to be a promise of a memorable occasion. Lydia regards the pair something along the lines of cousins.
  • Edvin: Edvin and Lydia are close friends and during her first meeting with the Herons, Lydia's lips were tweaked into a brief smile at Edvin's comment to Ingvar that she was "certainly a looker". During battle, Edvin and Lydia often remain behind the lines of the rest of the brotherband and work well together as a team, watching the Battle Aboard the Ishtfana from Heron and rallying the Ishtfana slaves to battle against the Tualaghi. Edvin also views Lydia as a "sister" to the brotherband, knitting her one of their watch caps before they went into battle against Raven outside Raguza and Lydia regards him in return in the way she would regard a cousin.
  • Karina Mikkelswife: Lydia likes Karina and thinks she is beautiful and very kind. Karina took Lydia under her wing in Hallasholm and shared wisdom, helping her adjust to a life in Hallasholm when she first arrives and is unfamiliar with her surroundings.
  • Agathe: Agathe is a widow and her daughter moved away. In The Hunters, Karina arranges it so that Lydia lives with her. To Lydia, she is a surrogate mother. Agathe in return deeply loved Lydia, treating her like a daughter and was delighted when Lydia (who, like the rest of the Herons, had been assumed deceased) returned from the Western Continent.
  • Tomas Demarek: Tomas Demarek was Lydia's paternal grandfather and served as a father-like figure to Lydia for most of her early years. The pair possessed a deeply-affectionate relationship and Lydia often brought in meat to be sold to maintain the household. Lydia was devastated when she heard of Tomas's demise and set of after Zavac with the Herons to avenge her grandfather's death by killing down the man who's pirates had cut Tomas down.
  • Parents: Lydia lost her mother and father to pirates when she was young, giving her no chance to know them and leaving her to be raised by her father's father, Tomas. She did, however, often wonder what her parents, her father especially, were like.
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