Armina
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Sister Armina is a Sister of the Dark, who was one of four involved in the Chainfire plot and kidnapping of Kahlan Amnell. She is later recaptured by Emperor Jagang and is part of a reconnaissance mission that results in her murdering Annalina Aldurren and capturing Nicci.
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[edit] Attributes
Armina is a middle aged woman, close to the same age as Sister Ulicia and still quite attractive. She has sky blue eyes and favors wearing a dress of the same color, though with white ruffles. Armina has a straight forward, no nonsense kind of personality and is all business. She is as hard as any of the Sisters of the Dark and loyal to her master in the underworld.
Because of her straight forward personality, Armina has a haughty demeanor and never beguiled by a kindly smile, as are Sister Tovi and Sister Cecilia. Armina is not adversed to using her powers to cause others harm and despite her attractive outer shell, her inner nature is that of a viper.
[edit] Appearances
First Appearance
- Stone of Tears: Chapter ???
Latest Appearance
- Confessor: Chapter ???
[edit] History
Sister Armina appears in the following books of the Sword of Truth series; Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold, Chainfire, Phantom and Confessor.
[edit] Stone of Tears
Armina is appointed as one of the instructors of the new student of the Palace, Richard Rahl. She is true to her no nonsense personality and at first her lessons to teach Richard how to use his gift are all business.
However along the way, Richard is under the impression that Armina appears to have warmed up towards him. This is discovered to be a charade, when Armina and the rest of Richard's teachers are revealed to be Sisters of the Dark.
Richard's instructors, except Sister Liliana, who he was successful in killing, flee the Palace along with their leader, Sister Ulicia, aboard the boat known as the Lady Sefa.
[edit] Blood of the Fold
Armina awakes at the same time as the other five Sisters, aboard the Lady Sefa. Each had shared the same dream, in which their Master, the Keeper, had been replaced in their shared dream by a man named Jagang. Jagang tortured each woman, before ordering them to make their way to his fortress immediately.
The Sister's discussed the situation, deciding that it would be best to follow Jagang's instructions; for the time being. Along the journey, Armina participates in the torturing of some of the Lady Sefa's crew so as to encourage the other sailors to make haste.
Sister Ulicia, as the leader of the Sisters of the Dark, came up with a plan to link the powers of the five Sisters, with her as the the director of the dangerous force, in an attempt to assassinate Emperor Jagang. When the Sisters arrived at Jagang's fortress, Ulicia wastes no time in unleashing the full destructive force of the Sister's combined powers. However, it is to no avail; Jagang is a dream walker, meaning that as long as he in a gifted persons mind, their powers are useless against him.
Jagang captures the Sister's and informs them that they are his in every aspect. He gives them to the crew of the Lady Sefa to fulfill their sexual needs.
Later the Sister's are sent back to the Palace of the Prophets, where Verna Sauventreen, the new Prelate, has been falsely convicted as a Sister of the Dark, clearing their names. The Sisters, with the exception of Nicci, surprise Richard Rahl and inform him that in exchange for allowing them to swear loyalty to him, they will give up his captured wifes position. Richard agrees and the Sisters believe they have gained their freedom. They then make their way to Grafan Harbour and unleash their fury upon the crew of the Lady Sefa.
[edit] Post Blood of the Fold / Pre Chainfire
Though Ulicia and her Sister's may have sworn an oath to Richard, she did not believe that it necessarily meant that they could no longer hold to their original oath, to the Keeper, as well. She recognized that Richard's highest morale has always been; life. To her mind, she believed that this would allow the four free Sisters of the Dark to work for the Keeper as long as they were no threat to Richard's life.
This caused a plan to formulate in Ulicia's mind. When the four Sisters discovered a cache of books, a place known as a central site, under the ruins of the Palace of the Prophets, one book stood out beyond all others:Chainfire.
Chainfire was a book written by the wizards of old, detailing a theory that demonstrated the potential to unravel the world of life. It outlined a web, powerful enough to completely erase a persons existence from the minds of all others, even seconds after having seen this person. The wizards, realizing what a catastrophe Chainfire could be if unleashed, created a counter; the Boxes of Orden. However, this played right into the hands of Ulicia and her Sisters.
After destroying the hidden central site, the Sisters set off to find Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell. The Sisters succeeded on discovering the camp while the pair slept and were able to avoid their Mord-Sith guard; Cara. They then cast a web on Richard that increased his drowsiness so as to prevent him from waking. They then captured his wife, Kahlan, before quickly leaving the camp. They also cast magic that erased their tracks.
The Sisters placed a Rada'Han on Kahlan's neck, cutting her off from her Confessors power and then in an act of pure evil unleashed the Chainfire Event upon the world by placing it around Kahlan. In addition to the Chainfire spell, a number of extremely powerful webs were placed upon her, preventing her from escaping the Sisters grasp.
The four Sisters and their captive then set off for the People's Palace in D'Hara. However, along the way they stopped in the city of Aydindril and planted a corpse in a grave marked as Kahlan's.
[edit] Chainfire
Once arriving at the People's Palace, the Sisters are caught up in the daily devotion to the Lord Rahl. Armina, who had been instructed to discover the wear abouts of the Garden of Life, by Sister Ulicia, was at a separate devotion area to the other three Sisters and their captive.
When the devotion is finished, Armina hurries back to her fellow Sisters and informs them that she had found the Garden. She tells them that it is impossible for them to go down their without being seen and that its clear that no one is supposed to even think about going down there as the doors are specifically made to warn people away. They have snakes carved on them.
Ulicia then sends Armina and Cecilia to watch the separate sides of the hallway, while she, Tovi and Kahlan make their way down it. Ulicia later sends Tovi on ahead of them with one of the Boxes of Orden, that Kahlan had stolen from the Garden, unseen due to the Chainfire spell. Ulicia also puts the Boxes of Orden into play.
Armina then leaves the Palace along with the two other Sisters and Kahlan, to rendezvous with Sister Tovi at a prior designated place.
[edit] Phantom
Armina, Ulicia, Cecilia and the captive Kahlan, finally make it to The White Horse Inn. It was here that they were to meet up with Sister Tovi and finally have all three Boxes of Orden in their possession. The inn keeper and his wife, Orlan and Emmy, let the women in out of the rain. At first the Sisters do not realize that the inn keeper and his wife are fighting over the number of women present. Emmy believed there to be only three, while Orlan believed there to be four. However, the importance of the conversation doesn't escape them for long.
The Sisters quickly force Orlan to describe the extra woman that he sees. It soon becomes obvious that he is able to see Kahlan. Armina cannot believe that Orlan is able to see Kahlan, as they had done the verification webs to ensure everything had gone to plan. Cecilia then argues that they did not do the interior webs, only the exterior. However, this practice had not been done since the Great War.
Orlan becomes angered at the gruff way he is being treated by the Sister, but is quickly knocked down by Sister Ulicia, with her oak rod. When he gets back to his feet and almost uses Kahlan's title, Mother Confessor, Ulicia uses her gift to unleash a powerful bolt of lightning that blasts the man in two. She later uses her dacra to kill the man's wife and daughter, but only after discovering that Tovi, was no longer at the inn and had stated she was on her way to Caska.
On the way to Caska, the Sisters and Kahlan are forced to avoid Imperial Order troops, however, they cannot avoid the carnage left in their wake. The Sister's dream of the power they will be able to unleash upon Jagang, once they have opened a Box of Orden. Eventually making it to the Deep Nothing, the land in which Caska is situated, the Sisters begin to sense someone is following them. They later capture the person; a young girl named Jillian.
Jillian says that Tovi has her grandfather captured and that she had sent her to guide her Sisters to her. They also discover that Jillian is also able to see Kahlan. Jillian guides the Sisters through a labyrinth and when they come to a door, using their gifts, the Sisters can sense Tovi beyond it.
However, when they enter the room, it is not Tovi who waits for them, but Emperor Jagang. Jagang informs them that Tovi had been dead for some time now and that their supposed bond to Richard Rahl had never been anything more than a fantasy, he had been using them all along, because he liked the idea of having Sisters of the Dark out in the world who were up to things he could use to his advantage. He also realized that their plans would help him further sabotage Richard Rahl's cause and net him the prize of prizes; Kahlan Amnell. What Jillian had said about her grandfather earlier, had been true, except that it was Jagang, not Tovi, who held him captive.
The Sisters are forced to help Jagang with his preparations with the Book of Counted Shadows. As the book insists that a Confessor is the only way to verify the truth of the book, Jagang and the Sisters have Kahlan study the book to see if she can find a way to do so. She points out that the book says Shadow, not Shadows. The Sisters argue the relevance of this, Armina choosing to believe that the lack of a plural is irrelevant.
While Jagang listens to the Sister's argue, Kahlan helps Jillian to escape. She kills two guards, takes a knife and then runs with Jillian, knowing she would be apprehended due to the Rada'Han on her neck. As Kahlan turns back, she throws the knife as hard as she can at the open doorway, before anyone had even come through. As the knife reaches the doorway, Cecilia walks through it and is stabbed directly through the heart, dying instantly.
Kahlan is apprehended via the Rada'Han and made unconcious, while Jillian is able to escape. Armina and Ulicia continue to argue over whether Kahlan's verification is relevant or not. Later, Jagang has Kahlan walk naked through his camp, to draw out anomolies among his men who are able to see her despite the Chainfire spell. Armina and Ulicia are made to follow her from a distance, so as to make sure she is unharmed by the soldiers. These soldiers are made Kahlan's guards.
After long discussions with Jagang about matters to do with the Book of Counted Shadows and the Boxes of Orden, Armina and Ulicia are sent to the tents, as they were so long ago, to be used and abused by Jagang's men, in any way they see fit, so long as their wounds aren't fatal. Both women continue to accompany Jagang during the day, however, their attractive apearances have eroded, due to their treatment.
[edit] Confessor
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[edit] Notable Quotes
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