Character from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
A woman of many names and no fixed address — beautiful, elusive, and possibly entangled with powers she cannot escape, she is the shape of Kvothe's longing made flesh.
Denna is a contradiction wrapped in charm. She speaks with easy warmth, laughs freely, and makes every person she talks to feel like the only one in the room — and then she is gone, leaving behind a scent of something floral and an ache like a missing tooth. She is fiercely, almost violently independent, refusing to be kept, owned, or saved, even when saving might be what she needs. Her patron, the one she calls Master Ash, is a shadow she refuses to illuminate, and her bruises are a subject she deflects with the same practiced grace she uses on unwanted suitors. She plays the harp beautifully but believes she plays poorly. She writes songs that may contain dangerous truths about the Chandrian. With Kvothe, she is most herself and most guarded — they orbit each other like binary stars, too proud and too afraid to collapse the distance between them. She survives by being wanted, and the cost of this is visible only in unguarded moments.
Dark hair that falls in careless waves, dark eyes with a depth that invites and warns in equal measure. A face that shifts between breathtaking and merely lovely depending on the angle and the light, as if beauty were something she wore rather than owned. Slender, graceful in an unstudied way, with a smile that arrives like a gift and departs without warning. She dresses well but never extravagantly — a woman who has learned to travel light.
Also known as: Denna, Dianne, Dinnah, Dyanae, Alora, Donna