Soleil Telery
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Overview
Soleil is a marked rider in Xaden’s squad who fights at Resson. She helps defend the evacuation route before a venin’s spreading dead zone kills her.
Her full name, Soleil Telery, is later read among the confirmed dead, though Navarre folds her death into the false account of a gryphon attack.
Appearance
Violet’s first recognition of Soleil is uncertain, but the rider she takes for Soleil is brunette, wears a nose ring, and has a rebellion relic on her left forearm.
Relationships
Soleil belongs to the group of marked riders close to Xaden and is fully present with his squad at Resson. During the fight, she works with Fuil to help open and defend the mine route for evacuees.
Violet names Soleil with Liam when she confronts Dain about stealing and reporting her memory. To Violet, Dain’s action sent Soleil to her death at Resson.
Important Events
At Resson, Soleil argues that Xaden’s squad has numbers and air superiority and chooses to fight. She and Garrick are assigned to sweep the perimeter, and she is killed after charging a blue-robed venin whose power desiccates her and Fuil within seconds.
The venin who kills Soleil is the same female venin who attacks Tairn and Violet at close range, recognizable by the distended, branchlike veins spreading from her red eyes.
Soleil’s death is officially absorbed into Navarre’s cover story for Resson. Xaden names her as lost in the supposed gryphon attack, Violet says Soleil’s dragon was killed before she could grasp what was happening, and Fitzgibbons reads Soleil Telery on the Death Roll.
Violet later explains that she runs because Soleil could not escape when venin power channeled through the ground at Resson. The land-draining effect consumed everything touching the ground, including Soleil, and the memory keeps returning to Violet at night.