Ailano Pashavaran

 “For a woman of blood,” Osmerrem Pashavaran said harshly, “marriage is not about wanting.” 

Ailano Pashavaran was the wife of Lord Pashavar.

Appearance
“Pashavar’s wife, a head taller than her husband, had the grim look of a woman determined to do her duty despite her personal feelings.”

Personality
Ailano was quiet when Maia Drazhar first met her, but was unafraid of frowning in disapproval at others. She seemed somewhat conservative in her views, particular in where a woman's place is, and disapproved of progressives, particularly other women pushing to improve the status of women, or not sticking to a stereotypical role concerning marriage and child-rearing. She hinted that she disapproved of Varenechibel IV's cruel treatment of Chenelo Drazharan.

Life
One of Ailano's grandmother's brothers “had gone north looking for gold and had found the mineral springs at Daiano instead—“which made him far more wealthy than a gold strike could ever have done, although even when he was a very old man, he would go out prospecting whenever he had the chance. But he never found gold.”"

She was one of the guests at the dinner party Maia attended, hosted by the Marquess Lanthevel. During the event, she noted to Maia, “No one who knew the late emperor your father. . . could help but deplore his fourth marriage—not through any fault of the Empress Chenelo’s, for indeed we have never heard anything to her discredit, but simply because he should not have made it. The Empress Pazhiro would have been the first to condemn his behavior.”

Ailano also spoke of her family and her views on women's place in society, and disapproved of Iviro Lanthevin's progressive tendencies.

Iviro Lanthevin
It's unclear if these two women were acquaintances or friends, but Ailano seemed nervous about being rude to Lanthevin, whereas Lanthevin stood her ground on her beliefs.

Maia Drazhar
Although both Maia and Ailano were polite to each other during the meal they shared, Ailano criticized both his sister, Vedero Drazhin, for being scholarly, and his choice of Csethiro Ceredin as his fiance, and Maia had to restrain his temper while speaking to her.

Pazhiro Drazharan
Lord Pashavar noted that Ailano and Empress Pazhiro were close friends.

Quotations

 * To Maia, about Csethiro: “You would have done better to choose a daughter of a more traditional house . . . The Ceredada girls have just as many ridiculous notions as your sister.”
 * To Dach'osmin Lanthevin: “All women have duties".