Aro Danivaran

'' “I remembered you. But I didn’t know your name. I wanted to thank you.” - Maia Drazhar to Aro Danivaran ''

Introduction
A noblewoman who cared for Maia Drazhar during the funeral of his mother, and remembered him fondly.

Appearance
When Maia first met Aro near the end of her life, she was “propped up on a great bank of pillows, looked infinitely frail, her face as flawlessly white as her hair, the cheerful pinks and yellows of her bed jacket seeming a cruelly chosen irony, although surely nothing could be further from the truth.

She opened her eyes when she heard their approach: pale green and protuberant, they were the only part of her Maia recognized. She croaked a slur of sound that was probably meant to be “Serenity". Her hands were like claws.

Life
Aro's husband "was Drazhadeise through his mother’s line”, and Varenechibel IV acknowledged their family as cousins of the Drazhada. During Chenelo Drazharin's funeral, she chaperoned Maia.

The Danivada are "ruinously poor", but Varenechibel IV "gifted them with a small estate on the birth of their first grandson, some five years” prior to the story start. Aro's husband died two years prior to the story start, and their son ran the estate, though Aro maintained the family presence at court. Two days before the destruction of the Wisdom of Choharo, Aro suffered a brainstorm, and became bedridden. When Maia had Csevet Aisava make inquiries as to her identity, Thiriän Danivin told Csevet that Aro "would be both honored and pleased. And that she tends to be most alert in the evenings." He visited her and spoke with her daughter and even sat with Aro for a time, then, at Thiriän's request, had Csevet supply the Danivada with extra coal at no charge.

During the ball for the Great Avar, Thiriän called Maia to visit Aro one last time before she died.

Maia Drazhar
Aro said of Maia after the funeral: that he was "polite and quiet". She's one of the few people at the Untheileneise Court whom Maia thought fondly of, for she was the only person who was kind to him when he was young, and he cherished his time with her.

Thiriän Danivin
Thiriän seems to care for her mother.

Quotations

 * Maia to Csethiro Ceredin: “She was very kind to us at our mother’s funeral. The only person who was.”