Anguissette
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In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy novels, an anguissette is one of Kushiel's chosen mortals, picked to "balance the scales" against those who impart suffering without compassion. Anguisettes feel pain and pleasure as one. Additionally, the wounds of those who bear Kushiel's Dart never fail to heal clean.
Those who have been chosen by Kushiel have a scarlet mote in their left eye, referred to poetically as Kushiel's Dart.
Phèdre nó Delaunay, protagonist in Kushiel's Legacy, bears the mark of Kushiel's Dart. Anafiel Delaunay is the first to recognize this in Phèdre, though others, including Melisande Shahrizai, Cecile Laveau-Perrin, and Thelesis de Mornay also see it before it is made common knowledge. When Delaunay recognizes it, he quotes an ancient text describing the condition:
Mighty Kushiel of rod and weal
Late of the brazen Portals
With blood-tipp'd dart a wound unhealed
Pricks the eyen of chosen mortals.
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| Novels | Kushiel's Dart • Kushiel's Chosen • Kushiel's Avatar • Kushiel's Scion |
| Characters | Phèdre nó Delaunay • Anafiel Delaunay • Joscelin Verreuil • Hyacinthe • Melisande Shahrizai • Ysandre de la Courcel • Drustan mab Necthana • Waldemar Selig • Other Characters |
| Groups | Court of Night-Blooming Flowers • Servants of Naamah • Cassiline Brotherhood • Yeshuites • Tsingani • Phèdre's Boys • Stregazza family |
| Places | Terre d'Ange • Skaldia • Alba and Eire • Caerdicca Unitas • Other |
| Mythos & Culture | Elua and His Companions • Anguissette • Midwinter Masque |
| Noble Houses | Courcel • L'Envers • Shahrizai • Somerville • Trevalion |
| History | Battle of the Three Princes • Battle of Troyes-le-Mont |
