Chlorr of the Mask

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Chlorr of the Mask is an undead fictional character from Garth Nix's Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr and Abhorsen.

[edit] History

It is strongly hinted in the third book that Chlorr was once an Abhorsen. Mogget originally almost lets this slip when he remarks on her flight:

Chlorr always was overcautious, even when she was an A-alive.

It is possible that she wears the mask to cover a disfiguring injury sustained during her life as Abhorsen and which may well have caused her original death.Prince Sameth remembers that his mother, the Abhorsen Sabriel, banished Chlorr when he was seven years old. However, Sabriel regretfully recalls that she only followed Chlorr beyond the Seventh Gate, and was too tired to continue.

In the beginning of Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr, Chlorr seeks out the Destroyer, not knowing what he is, in an effort to subjugate him. Here she meets Hedge, and she tells him that he will serve her. Instead, however, Orannis makes her his servant and Hedge's, and Hedge gives her his necromantic bells to do work for him. Later, it is revealed that she is no longer a Necromancer, but one of the Greater Dead. It is mentioned in Abhorsen, that this was the work of Orannis, who cast her deep into Death.

[edit] Servitude

Bound by the necromancer Hedge, Chlorr attacked areas around the Red Lake, where he was trying to dig up Orannis, the Destroyer. She then directs the Hands killing Southerlings when attacked by Sameth, Lirael and their companions as they were travelling to the Abhorsen's House. Disreputable Dog made her lose her physical shape and she fled to gather reinforcements.

At the start of Abhorsen, it is Chlorr who sieges the Abhorsen's House and forces the companions into an encounter with Astarael. She later reappears, blocking them and the soldiers from reaching the lightning farm, where Lirael was trying to drive her back to Death when Mogget, the Abhorsen's servant, drives her away, judging this to be the quickest way to resolve the fight. Chlorr heads north to the Wall and is not seen again, most likely still 'alive' somewhere in the Old Kingdom.