Character from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
The most beautiful and ancient of the Fae — a seductress who has kept men until they died of longing, and the only lover Kvothe escaped by calling the wind and singing her own name back to her.
Felurian speaks in a lilting cadence without capital letters or punctuation, her language as old and flowing as the Fae itself. She is not malicious in the way mortals understand malice — she keeps men because she desires them, and the fact that they waste away and die is a sadness she accepts the way mortals accept that flowers wilt. She has existed since before the mortal world took its current shape, and her perspective is alien in its timelessness. Kvothe survived her by doing what no mortal had done: he called the name of the wind, he sang, and he met her as something close to an equal rather than a conquest. She made him the shaed — a cloak of shadow — and taught him arts that Rothfuss describes with characteristic restraint. She is dangerous not because she intends harm but because she is a force of nature, and nature does not negotiate.
Beautiful beyond the capacity of mortal language to describe — Rothfuss writes around her appearance rather than through it, because her beauty operates on a level that dismantles rational observation. Dark hair, luminous skin, features that shift between innocent and ancient depending on the light. She is naked or nearly so, clothed in moonlight and her own impossible presence. To look at her is to forget why you would ever look at anything else.
Also known as: Felurian, Lady of Twilight, Lady of the First Quiet