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====== Ariana Cornick ======
=====AKA=====
[[Silver Borne]]
  * Alicia Brewster<sup>265</sup>
  * Ari<sup>267</sup>
  * Silver<sup>305</sup>
=====Physical Description=====
[[Silver Borne]]
  * She'd altered her real appearance just enough that she looked human. Her skin was tanned and human-smooth, her eyes gray, and her hair blond<sup>341</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Her current facade was neither beautiful nor ugly, more of a pleasant average. Pale gold hair, more often found in children than adults before the advent of hair dye, framed her face and set off her soft gray eyes<sup>30</sup>
  * Apparent age between twenty-five and thirty<sup>30</sup>

[[Night Broken]]
  * Her hair was blond, her eyes gray, her skin clear, entire aspect unremarkable<sup>305</sup>
====Injuries====

^  Ariana Cornick Injury Types/Scars  ^^
^  [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]]  ^^
^  Injury Type/Scar  ^  Notes  ^
|  Scars on Arm, Thigh, Face, Hand and Neck<sup>267</sup> | Appeared when Glamour Dropped  |
|  Scar on Top of Shoulder<sup>272</sup>  |  [[Samuel Cornick]]  |
^  [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Silver]]  ^^
^  Injury Type/Scar  ^  Notes  ^
|  Ridged Scars that Crossed like a Braid<sup>40</sup>  |  Ariana's Father  |
|  Tear Over Hip<sup>44</sup>  |  Wolves  |
|  Gash in Thigh<sup>44</sup>  |  Wolves  |

=====Appearances & Mentions=====
^           Appearances                   ^                            
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #11: [[Storm Cursed]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]]|
|[[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Silver]]|
|[[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Hollow]]|                    
^           Mentions                    ^                              
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]|
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]]|
=====Classification=====

====Description====
[[Silver Borne]]
  * Smelled of earth and forest and magic with a touch of something burning, air and salt water<sup>123</sup>
  * Brilliant grass green eyes that darkened to blue and brightened<sup>267</sup>
  * The pupils of her eyes widened past her changeable irises until her eyes were as black as a starless night. Then her glamour went all funky<sup>267</sup>
  * Can work magic in silver and so she was named<sup>269</sup>
  * Can imprint her magic on things<sup>269</sup>
  * Can true name<sup>277</sup>
  * She moved like a wolf, bold and graceful and strong<sup>278</sup>
  * Works off ties, the threads that bind us to those things that are ours<sup>281</sup> 
  * Without glamour, her skin was a warmer color than Zee's and several shades lighter. It was beautiful against silver-lavender hair that was no more than a finger-length long anywhere and floated out from her scalp more like plumage than hair. Ariana's clothes altered when her glamour dropped as well, into a simple knee-length dress of an off-white color with a handkerchief hem<sup>287</sup>
  * She wasn't conventionally beautiful-her face was too inhuman for that, with eyes that were too big and a nose too small for humanity<sup>287</sup>
  * Iron-kissed fae in her background, steel holds no terror for her<sup>290</sup>
  * Holds earth, air, fire, and water; it is what made her do great magic after most of Underhill was out of reach<sup>307</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Ancient-older than Bran, Mercy thought<sup>32</sup>
  * Can sense silver but not call it to her<sup>33</sup>
  * Could feel someone's attention through the phone<sup>35</sup>
  * Can make her home difficult to find for a few hours<sup>36</sup>
  * Silver Borne keeps her power muted; last of the powerful fae born after humans began to use iron<sup>49</sup>
  * If she really freaked out, Samuel was worried that the Silver Borne might give her back everything it had taken from every fae for as long as it had existed<sup>49</sup>
  * Last of the powerful fae born after humans began to use iron. Even muted, she could wipe out a city block<sup>49</sup>
  * Her pupils and irises had vanished, and her eyes swallowed the light<sup>51</sup>
  * smelled like forest<sup>175</sup>

[[Night Broken]]
  * Under her glamour, she was spectacularly beautiful<sup>305</sup>
  * Commands earth, air, fire and water- though not as well as she once did<sup>306</sup>
  * Doesn't have even a tenth of the power she once had<sup>312</sup>

[[Silver]]
  * Her power outshone her forest lord father's<sup>8</sup>
  * Strong with magic from both sides of her bloodline. The magic allowed her to heal from things that would have killed a hobgoblin. Her father was a forest lord, an independent but powerful fae, her mother one of the high ladies of the highest courts<sup>19</sup>
  * The beast was more powerful in its way than Ariana<sup>34</sup>
  * Long fall of pale silver hair touched with lavender that could not have belonged to a human<sup>35</sup>
  * The beast looked much like Ariana but the eyes were always deep, fathomless, black 
  * Dual-natured: Ariana's beast was born of that heritage 
  * Had her father not brutalized her with pain and the terror of the hounds, it would never have materialized
  * Once a spell was sealed into the silver, she could not unwork it
  * Burnt out her magic in the making of the Silver Borne
  * Is a weaver

====Affiliation====

=====Residence=====
=====Family & Significant Other=====
=====Occupation=====

=====Character Traits & Facts=====
[[Silver Borne]]
  * Her voice was lightly accented, some combination of British and Welsh<sup>275</sup>
====Education, Work Experience & Languages====
====Spirituality & Personality====
[[Silver Borne]]
  * Has a sense of humor<sup>276</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * She had this softness about her, a vulnerability that allowed her to be rather easily hurt<sup>32</sup>

[[Silver]]
  * Tougher than she looked<sup>42</sup>
  * Once, she was lovely and sweet and, it hurts me to confess, spoiled. Beloved daughter. But immortality is more curse than blessing. All things pass away 
  * If you hurt her or scare her, the beast will attack. It is dangerous
====Talents & Skills====
====Health & Fitness====
[[Silver]]
  * Walked with the poise her mother had drilled into her before she left; advantage of moving with grace was that it kept her centered
====Quirks====
[[Silver Borne]]
  * She can't even look at wolves without a panic attack<sup>257</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Had a deep-seated and totally justified terror of canids<sup>32</sup>

[[Silver]]
  * Listens in doorways
=====Relationships=====

Ariana and Samuel

[[Silver Borne]]
  * Samuel didn't care about her scars, only the pain they represented<sup>272</sup>

[[Silver]]
  * Wasn’t used to small kindnesses being dealt out by men, and she felt herself falling under the spell of the soft-spoken Samuel
  * Silverheart, Ariana’s heart. Her body loved his form, but her heart loved the man within who had so much kindness inside him


Ariana and the Pack

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Deep-seated and totally justified terror of canids, which she'd only overcome with people she knew well - meaning Samuel<sup>32</sup>
  * She liked Peter; Samuel had asked him to help Ari with her fear of werewolves<sup>51</sup>

Ariana and the Fae

[[Frost Burned]]
  * No follower and her allegiance is not longer to the Gray Lords, if it ever was<sup>31</sup>
  * Allowed to leave the reservation under the condition she do nothing to draw attention to herself; and take the Silver Borne with her<sup>31</sup>

[[Fire Touched]]
  * Ariana made herself unwelcome because of what she held<sup>144</sup>

Ariana and Haida

[[Silver]]
  * Haida's magic snuck in and clothed the beast's memories in kindness, a thing possible only because the beast allowed it<sup>21</sup>
  * If it had not been for Haida, Ariana knew she would have long ago been lost to the beast<sup>22</sup>
  * Haida hated herself for her inability to defend Ariana<sup>34</sup>

Ariana and Her Father

[[Silver]]
  * There was nothing left of the father who had loved her. The one who had taken her on long walks in the woods and taught her to speak to the deep-voiced oaks and the quivering willow<sup>23</sup>
  * Ariana's father, blinded by need, was determined to force her to use her magic to make the artifact<sup>24</sup>
  * Artifact or no, it was her destruction that her father craved<sup>28</sup>
  * Whatever she and her beast had managed, it had thwarted her father's will. She might die, but he could not use her to destroy the world<sup>28</sup>
  * Grief, rage and relief fought for ascendance. Once, she has loved him, her father whose death changed so much<sup>49</sup>

Ariana and Phin

[[Silver Borne]]
  * She adores Phin, he's like her son who she lost long ago<sup>280</sup>