Matriarch

See also matriarchs

The Matriarch is the head of the Temple Indivisible and the bride of Alberon.

Details

• The contract that allows the Temple of the Labyrinth to remain in the city was signed by the First Matriarch
• The personal chambers of the Matriarch are in the Steeple of Alberon, below the Sealed Library.
• The High Priestess of the Labyrinth is an Elector, making her the equal of the Matriarch or the head of any Great Family.
• The Knights of the Canes Sanguis guard the Steeple of Alberon and the Matriarch. They answer only to their Grand Master, who is beholden to and appointed by the Matriarch and serves at her pleasure.
• The Matriarch appears in With Morning Comes Mistfall, where she says that it rains but once a year to remind all of the bounty of the freshwater Keening Sea.

Connections

• The traditional duties of a wife include memorising the taboos set forth by the Matriarch and ensure that their households are in compliance with them. The larger a household a woman maintains the more difficult this becomes, which is perhaps part of the reason why the Doge has two wives.
• The Matriarch banished the Devil’s Bible to the Sealed Library.
• When Simone the Fowl was accidentally elected doge, the College of Electors consulted with the Matriarch.
• The Sealed Library is accessible only to the Matriarch and those she chooses.