Illyanna is easily the most conflicted character in the entire trilogy. She was abandoned by her mother shortly after birth and never knew her father, who died before she was born. She was raised by her aunt and uncle in a fortress called Caer Brig, in the far northern edge of the Talosian Empire. Being half Human and half Deinyran, she becomes the victim of bullies at a young age. She is further separated from those around her by the voice that only she hears, that she calls the "Other". She is beset by fears and anxieties that she must overcome in order to fulfill her destiny as the new "Seer", and to stand against the evil being known as Kwovadis.