Yarrow is a flittling. An inhabitant of The Fair Lands, member of the Seelie Court, and servant of the royal family, attending to the direct commands of Queen Titania.
History
Yarrow has led a comfortable life, serving her Queen, until the moment when Molly O'Reilly set foot into the Fair Lands, tricked by Amadan. The flittling found it rude of Molly to be building a tree house while making noise in front of the Queen, but when she and other servants of Titania went to stop the girl, they were intrigued by her. As with many of the fair folks, they were not used to seeing real work or effort, and they quickly forgot about the the Queen, and stayed to help Molly. For this, the Queen promised a curse on the girl that would be forever remembered.[1]
After Molly was cursed by Titania and set all the kingdom on fire, Yarrow was the only fairy folk who knew that the blame was not on Molly, but rather on the curse put on the fey girl. Amadan heard Yarrow talking to herself about this and was about to force Yarrow to reveal the name of the curser when an angry mob interrupted them. Some fairy folks blame Amadan for the presence of Molly on the Fair Land and he was trying to blame someone else. Yarrow seized this opportunity and tricked Amadan into becoming a statue to avoid danger. When he did, the flittling beheaded the statue, thus defeating the master trickster, and becoming the Fool of the Forthing.[2]
Her victory was short-lived, though, as the Lords of Hell came to the Fair Lands for Taik, the son of Titania and Auberon who was missing from Hell, and the Lords percieved trickery from the Queen. Their arrival could not had been at a worse time, as at the same moment the Leveler was predicted to arrive at The Fair Lands. The Lords of Hell knowing the power of the Leveler, tried to escape to no avail. All of the Fair Land lost it shape, becoming a dense mist. And everyone who was in the Fair Land at that moment was forced to decide who they were and will the land to be again. The only fairy who was capable of such a feat was Yarrow, who learned the difference between pretending to live and actually living. By her will, Yarrow gave shape again to the Fair Land, unmaking the dark pact made between the first King of Faerie, Huon the Small, and Lucifer Morningstar. This freed the kingdom to pay any tithe to Hell for the land in the future, allowing Prince Taik to come back to The Fair Land, no longer forced to live in Hell as the last payment made by the kings for the land. With all wrongs righted, Molly left to the walking world and Yarrow with all the fair folk started living a new life, with less pretending and more actually living.[3]
The next time that Yarrow encountered Molly, the flitting was transformed into a doll by the frog Ibbit, commanded by the demon Barbatos using the magic stone Sholas. Molly was able to restore Yarrow, and both of them traveled back to the Fair Lands to save once again the land, in the process rescuing the life of the Kings and defeating the old flitting warrior, Briar Rose.[4]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Flight
- Magic: As all fairies, Yarrow has great magical capabilities.
- Glamour
- Invisibility
- Dimensional Travel
Weaknesses
- Ancient Rules: As all inhabitants of the realms, Yarrow is bound to old rules that limit her actions.
Related
- 10 Appearances of Yarrow (New Earth)
- 1 Images featuring Yarrow (New Earth)
- Quotations by or about Yarrow (New Earth)
- Character Gallery: Yarrow (New Earth)
Footnotes