Maren
The Keeper
The garden preserves everything. Even the things it should not.
On what the garden does
Biography
More will be revealed in Book 3.
Appearance
Auburn hair that has not grown in four centuries. Amber eyes, warm in color, flat in expression. A body without history, no freckles, no scars, no lines. The perfection is the wrongness. Her hands are the exception: strong, calloused, soil-stained. Her hands are real. Everything else is preserved.
Abilities
She reads everything through physical condition: moisture, color, texture, temperature. She touches before she thinks. She knows what is wrong with a thing before she knows its name.
Key Facts
•The garden holds perpetual late spring. She has never seen autumn. She has never seen a tree without leaves. She does not know this is unusual.
•A butterfly inside the garden hangs mid-wingbeat. Fruit never ripens. Insects never land. She tends all of it as though this is normal, because to her it is.
First appears in Book 3.
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Maren
AffiliationThe Iron Garden
ResidenceThe Iron Garden
GenderFemale
SpeciesOther
Eye ColorAmber
Hair ColorAuburn
StatusBound (Immortal)
AgeOver four hundred years old. She has not aged since she entered the garden.
First AppearanceBook 3