| Loor | |
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| First appearance | The Merchant of Death |
| Last appearance | The Soldiers of Halla |
| Created by | D. J. MacHale |
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| Species | Traveler (Zadaa) |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Traveler |
| Family | Osa (mother), Saangi (sister and Acolyte) |
Loor is a warrior in D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series. She has appeared in seven novels so far (she did not appear in The Never War, The Quillian Games, or The Pilgrims of Rayne), more than any other Traveler aside from the main characters: Bobby Pendragon, and Saint Dane.
Loor is the Traveler from Zadaa, one of the ten territories. She is a Batu (a tribe on Zadaa) and is a Ghee warrior of that tribe. Since the Batu live above-ground on a scorching planet, their skin is very dark.
Loor's eyes are brown. Her hair is dark, almost black, and is tied in a long braid. Loor has an extremely athletic body with "zero body-fat" and is initially taller than Bobby when described in the first book.
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Loor makes an appearance in many of the Pendragon books, along with title character Bobby Pendragon.
Loor appears as the daughter of Osa, and next in line to becoming the Traveler of Zadaa. She is at first hostile to Bobby Pendragon, but ultimately comes to respect him. He is implied, and confirmed in subsequent books, to be enamored of her.
Loor appears in the second book, The Lost City of Faar, wherein she helps introduce Cloral's Traveler to his task and later attends the funeral of Press Tilton. She is now a warrior of the Batu tribe.
Loor appears to help Bobby Pendragon and Aja Killian (the Traveler from Veelox).
Loor appears briefly at the end of Black Water. She cremates Kasha, the Traveler from Eelong.
The Rivers of Zadaa (the sixth Pendragon book) is based in Loor's home territory, Zadaa, where she teaches Bobby how to fight after he loses a fight with Saint Dane and later assists him when they travel to solve the conflict threatening her people.
Loor appears on the cover of this book, equipped with light-weight leather armor and a heavy wooden staff.
Through this book, it is learned that Loor grew up on Zadaa with her mother Osa and sister Saangi. She spent some time outside the capital city Xhaxhu during her training, at which time she befriended a youth named Bokka, a member of a neighboring tribe, who was also in training to become a warrior. In the book, Loor is restrained and forced to watch Bobby being beaten up by Saint Dane, who had taken the form of one of Loor's tribesmen. After this fight, Loor trains Bobby to defend himself in the training-grounds of Mooraj where Loor had learned. Bokka appears several times, ultimately to die revealing the presence of Saint Dane.
Throughout the book, Bobby writes to Mark and Courtney of his growing feelings for Loor, and ultimately attempts to demonstrate his affection. He is refused on grounds that an attachment would be detrimental to the purpose of the Travelers.
At the end of the book, Saint Dane impales Loor. Bobby avenges her by stabbing Saint Dane with his own weapon; but the demon revives and escapes. Bobby then resurrects Loor. Loor tells Bobby that she had heard a familiar male voice tell her that she was not meant to die. They later learn that the voice belonged to Press.
Loor appears at the end of the story with the other Travelers, who joins Bobby and she kisses him and arrives last. She is there with the other travelers to save Halla from Saint Dane.
Loor plays a role in Soldiers of Halla, first when Bobby returns to Zadaa and finds her crying, for her territory has been turned and her tribe (the Batu) enslaved by the Rokador. Her sister Saangi is alive as a slave. She fights in the final battle, helping fight Saint Dane's army while Bobby did the real work inside. In the end she finally revealed her love for him in some way, by saying she would have kissed him that day in the rain, a reference to events in "The Rivers of Zadaa".
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