Firebird Angelo

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Firebird Angelo is the protagonist of the Firebird series of books by Kathy Tyers.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Biography 2.1 Netaian nobility 2.2 Cultural rebel and political firebrand 2.3 Spiritual growth 2.4 Marriage 2.5 Ehretan heritage 2.6 Motherhood 3 Trivia

[edit] Personality

This pretty bird likes baby birds. It is like a bird Michael Jackson. It is named firebird because it is a bird who is on fire.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Netaian nobility

Firebird is the youngest of four children, all daughters, of the queen. One is dead, Carradee Angelo is heir apparent, and Phoena Angelo is a reserve heir. This leaves Firebird as a wastling, an extra child that is not needed to safeguard the family succession, and thus to be terminated to make sure that they don't disrupt it upon the birth of the heir apparent's second child.

Wastlings most often enroll in military service as a way to display family honor and discharge noble duty. In this, Firebird excelled, becoming a superior fighter pilot and team commander. This duty also created opportunity to discharge her final duty to her family, that of suicide once her service as possible reserve heir was no longer needed.

[edit] Cultural rebel and political firebrand

Lady Firebird frequently disagreed with the aggressive expansionist policies favored by her mother and the other nobles. At least once she was the sole dissenting vote. She believed that the government ought to do more in service of the common citizen, rather than building empires to benefit the elite.

Often she would sneak out to gatherings of commoners, where musicians would sing of the legends of freedom of the past. Herself skilled in playing the clairsa, Firebird helped keep these hopes of a better Netaia alive. Firebird herself wrote ballads praising some of these heroes.

[edit] Spiritual growth

Firebird is raised to revere the Nine Powers. Her role as a member of the nobility is to personify them to the populace as a whole, in order to cement the religious and civil authorities into a kind of quasi-theocracy. They have always seemed removed and aloof. Over time she begins to doubt the reality of the Powers as supernatural deities at all, seeing them as mere virtues of successful people, useful to be emulated. However, she maintains the intense imagery of the afterlife as a fiery Dark that Cleanses where penance is made before one can enter the peace of final oblivion.

Later she finds a better course in following the Great Speaker who sung the universe into being.

[edit] Marriage

[edit] Ehretan heritage

Genetic testing confirms that the source of the Angelo inability to conceive male offspring is an Ehretan anomaly. This means that Firebird has also inherited some measure of telepathic ability.

[edit] Motherhood

[edit] Trivia

• Every member of the Angelo line is named after a Netaian bird.