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Character

Personality

Alianora is still a bit silly, but is less so than most princesses. This is a key trait in making her one of Cimorene's friends.

Description

Slender with blue eyes and hair the color of ripe apricots. She wears a pearl-covered circlet.

Biography

Early Life

When she was born, her parents specifically didn't invite her fairy godmother to her christening parties. Since she wasn't invited, she was supposed to show up anyway and curse the infant princess. Instead, when the fairy godmother came to the party, instead of cursing the baby, she just had a goodtime and left without giving her any "gifts".

Alianora's Aunt Ermintrude tried many things because she thought Alianora wasn't a very satisfactory princess, even though Alianora tried really hard. Her aunt gave her a gold spinning wheel for her sixteenth birthday, but nothing happened. Then, she had Alianora put in a tower of straw, but the poor princess only spun linen thread.

Then, Aunt Ermintrude sent her to the woods with a loaf of bread to give it to whomever asked for it. A disguised fairy asked for the bread, but instead of blessing her with diamonds or roses, she just told Alianora that she would have good teeth for the rest of her life.

Next, Alianora's aunt gave her a gown and some glass slippers to wear to a ball, but Alianora broke one of the shoes before she left the castle. Alianora thinks that Aunt Ermintrude was the one that set her up to be kidnapped by Woraug without telling her, fearing she would even mess that up.

Dealing with Dragons

Alianora is Woraug's princess. She first visited Cimorene, who she becomes a good friend to, with Keredwel and Hallanna. After leaving Cimorene's company, she tells the other two that she forgot something and returns to Cimorene and ends up by helping her clean up the library.

Later Alianora and Cimorene cast the Dragon fireproofing spell on each other.

Alianora enjoys Cimorene's company as she doesn't have to pretend.

Alianora helps Cimorene and the Stone Prince stop some Wizards from succeeding in their plans to make Woraug the new "King of the Dragons". She told Kazul that she had seen Woraug with what looked like a teabag that could have been full of dragonsbane, the plant that had killed the old king. She was freed because Woraug was transformed into a frog, and she left with the Stone Prince, who was to become her future husband.

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