Character from Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Cal's mother — a gentle Silver woman who married a king, wrote her fears in a diary, and was driven to death by a whisper who wanted her throne.
Coriane was kind, compassionate, and haunted by a melancholy she couldn't name. She loved tinkering with mechanical objects — an interest her family discouraged as unbecoming for a Silver woman. She married Tiberias VI for love, a rarity among Silver nobility, and bore Cal. Elara Merandus destroyed her. The whisper queen tormented Coriane psychologically — nightmares, paranoia, the slow erosion of her sense of safety — until Coriane took her own life. Her diary documented the descent: her love for Cal, her growing fear, her awareness that something was being done to her mind. Julian preserved the diary. Cal eventually read it. Coriane's death is the original sin of the series — the act of cruelty that set everything else in motion. Without her murder, Elara doesn't become queen. Maven isn't broken. The Calore dynasty doesn't fracture. Everything traces back to one gentle woman who was too inconvenient to live.
Slender with chestnut hair and pale blue eyes. Long thick eyelashes. She wore House Jacos colors — yellow and gold — in garments that were notably outdated compared to other noble families. She looked like someone who belonged in a garden, not a court.
Also known as: Queen Coriane