Sloane Mairi

Sloane has blond hair, sky-blue eyes, a rebellion relic, and a fierce resemblance to Liam.

Sloane is openly hostile toward Violet when she arrives at Basgiath, blaming her for Liam’s death and rejecting Violet’s attempts to help. Her anger is direct enough that she curses Violet, demands to fight her at assessment, and refuses at first to believe Violet interfered to keep her alive in a challenge.

Sloane’s hostility toward Violet eases after she begins reading Liam’s October letters. She says she does not hate Violet because Liam did not, while still keeping the grief around his death close.

Sloane is blunt about enemies and outsiders. She remains contemptuous of Dain despite Violet’s explanations about his ignorance, and she openly says she does not accept the fliers as squadmates during the tense rider-flier integration.

After the wardstone sacrifice, Sloane carries visible guilt over channeling Lilith’s power into the stone. She avoids Violet’s eyes, privately apologizes, and says allowing the power through was not revenge.

Sloane fears using her siphon signet because she associates it with draining magic, destroying things, and killing people. That fear leads her to refuse signet training while still wanting to help with research in ways that do not require siphoning.

Sloane can act impulsively under pressure. She charges an officer who snaps at Cat and later draws Rhiannon’s attention as one of the riders whose disobedience has to be reined in during the pass defense.

Liam describes his little sister as only a year younger than him. Their parents’ executions and his fostering at Tirvainne separated them, but he expects her to enter the Riders Quadrant and believes she is strong enough to make it.

Liam’s dying request makes Sloane Violet’s responsibility. Violet promises him she will take care of his sister.

Violet repeatedly protects Sloane despite Sloane’s hatred, helping her at Parapet, shielding her from Solas’s blast, and then forcing her into Imogen’s training by rationing Liam’s letters. The protection is practical rather than warmly received at first.

Sloane bonds a midsize strawberry-red Red Daggertail, echoing Liam’s bond with Deigh. Her tight hug with Visia after Threshing also shows she has friendships within her own year.

Sloane defends Violet during the cliff mission by threatening Cat after the trap. When wyvern appear, Violet orders Sawyer to get Sloane up the cliff rather than watch Liam’s sister die.

Sloane’s view of Violet softens into guarded trust. She acknowledges that Liam’s request placed an unfair burden on Violet, accepts a lit conduit from her, and shares a brief understanding with her over the weight of protecting someone else.

During the renewed tension at Basgiath, Sloane acts with the students protecting flier cadets inside the Riders Quadrant. She reports a forced challenge against a Tail Section flier and helps shield Kai as the first-years enter Battle Brief.

By the Draithus mission, Sloane’s dragon is identified as Thoirt, who carries her across the wards with Aaric’s sealed package.

Dain coaches Sloane through a controlled siphon transfer at Draithus, telling her how to pull from his excess power and push it into Brennan’s deficit. The moment turns her feared signet into the means of saving Mira.

Sloane begins Basgiath with weak combat fundamentals because she was not fostered with fighters. Early assessments and extra sparring expose poor technique, repeated losses, and a dangerous challenge she cannot win unaided.

Like other marked ones, Sloane can naturally perform a simple unlocking rune.

Sloane’s signet manifests as siphoning, the ability to draw power from others. At first she does it by accident and fears the draining means she is turning venin, but Violet identifies the manifestation as a siphon signet.

Sloane’s siphoning can move another person’s and dragon’s power into an object without Sloane making the power herself. Lilith explains the process as acting as a conduit and facilitating the flow into the wardstone.

By the next term, Sloane being a siphon is treated as known information within the squad rather than a secret tied only to the wardstone crisis.

Sloane completes the battle-mount exercise with notable grace, though she does not wield during the maneuver.

Sloane is one of the strongest students in Trissa’s rune class, with rune work standing as a current strength separate from her fear of siphoning.

At Draithus, Sloane successfully transfers power from Dain into Brennan after coaching. The controlled transfer proves she can use her siphon to redirect power constructively rather than only drain it.

Sloane bears a rebellion relic.

Sloane carries Aaric’s Dunne-sealed package across the wards against orders because Aaric told her Violet would need it. The package contains the replacement weapon Violet needs after losing her alloy-hilted dagger.

Sloane survives her challenge against Dasha because Violet secretly incapacitates Dasha with ardyce powder and ground lillybelle. The interference keeps Sloane alive long enough for her to force a weak chokehold and make Dasha tap out.

During the cave fight with Solas, Sloane survives under Andarna’s wings, helps put out burning feathers on Kiralair, and returns to drag Violet away after Solas’s tail throws her across the cave.

Sloane is ordered to stay behind with the other first-years before the Basgiath mission, but she reaches Basgiath anyway. Rhiannon sends Sloane and the other first-years toward Brennan near the ward chamber under a supply-fetching pretext to keep them out of the most dangerous aerial fighting.

Sloane becomes the conduit for Lilith Sorrengail’s sacrifice at the Basgiath wardstone. Frightened and uncertain at first, she allows the siphoning when Violet says Xaden is dying, channels Lilith’s and Aimsir’s power into the stone, and staggers back afterward apologizing.

Sloane later explains that she felt Lilith’s power and believes she could have rejected or stopped it, but she let it through because she wanted the wards raised and wanted to live. Violet accepts that Sloane was the tool of Lilith’s chosen sacrifice rather than the person who chose the sacrifice.

At Draithus, Sloane crosses the wards against orders on Thoirt with Aaric’s sealed package and answers Violet’s plea for help. After Dain coaches her through the transfer, her siphoning gives Brennan the power needed to save Mira.

Sloane’s disobedient courier action materially enables Theophanie’s defeat because the package she delivered supplies the exact replacement weapon Violet needs.