Mother
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The Longest Journey
The White Kin - aka 'the Mother' - is the first of the Draic Kin April meets, and apparently, aside from April, the only female member of the Kin. She lives on a majestic cliffside somewhere in Arcadia, in a nest beside a great tree. When April dreams about her, the Mother offers words of comfort but cautions April to be ready for the ordeal ahead. Captain Horatio Nebevay's vessel is also named The White Dragon, possibly named after the Mother.
In the Scriptures of the Balance, the story of the Stone Disk mentions the Mother. When the Disk was stolen from the Sentinel Enclave, the Mother intervened to stop the Sentinel rebels from removing it, despite being forbidden by the Sentinel Fathers. Presumably, the Mother was protecting the sanctity of the Tower, but she clearly had little faith in the Sentinel's ability to retrieve the Disk.
Although she is essentially a gentle soul, the White Dragon is also fully prepared to fight to defend her children. A book in the Enclave Library called 'The Silver Spear of Gorimon' also reveals how fierce the White Kin can be. It tells the tale of the Parech of Gorimon who wanted to marry the daughter of the White Kin, 'the most beautiful creature in all the worlds'. When the White Kin refused, the Parech was furious, and ordered the forging of a great spear using magical silver that might be capable of killing one of the Kin. Cooled in the blood of the unfortunate smith who made it, the spear injured the White Dragon but didn't kill her. Enraged, the White Dragon laid waste to the Parech's kingdom.
Also, the Wood Spirit speaks of how the Mother battled 'black Chaos', meaning the Chaos Vortex, a battle so intense that it split the very rock of the mountain.
The White Kin has had at least two children; April, and the unnamed Kin who hatches from her egg and whom April calls 'sister', though the story of the Silver Spear implies there may have been others.
It seems that the role of Mother is something the White Dragon carried for only a certain period of time. She tells April that "I am the Mother of what is; but you, you are the Mother of a future that may yet be." Later, towards the end of the story when April realises her true identity and finds the White of the Kin lying in her nest, weak and near death, the Mother tells April: "The Mother is eternal, but I am not." Wishing that she could have seen her children grow up, the Mother perishes, and her body fades away. As she vanishes, the egg in the nest hatches. It is possible that the White Kin was reborn through her hatchling, as in the myth of the Phoenix.
The Alatien Teller tells April that "the Kin are secretive, they keep to themselves." In the Mother's case, this seems to ring particularly true; unlike the Old God, who is worshipped by the Maerum, or McAllen's corporate ambitions in Stark, the White Kin lives high above the world, separate from the other Kin and everyone else, her only interest being to protect and guide her children.
The Mother is voiced by Nicole Orth-Pallavicini.
Dreamfall
The reborn White Dragon has been absent in the ten years since her birth. When April begins looking for her, she hears from Brian Westhouse that a woman with white hair has been seen in the Dark People's Library. April travels there and meets the White of the Kin, who has now taken on a human form.
The White Dragon is hiding in the Library because some enemy, 'not mortal', has been hunting the Draic Kin, even the Ancient Blue: she says she "cannot hear the others: they have all gone silent, and I am the only one left". She also clarifies that April is not a dragon as she is, that their sisterhood is more metaphorical than genetic. The White of the Kin seems sad at April's choices in life, but agrees to help her Shift to the Guardian's Realm - on the condition she takes Crow, whom the White Dragon seems amused by, along with her.
When she meets Zoe Castillo, the White Dragon is fascinated by her 'dream presence' in Arcadia, and even asks Zoe if she can touch her. However, she is more unsettled by her meeting with Brian Westhouse, and claims that looking at him gives her 'goosebumps'. The significance of this is not clear.
At the end of the story, the White Dragon is reading in the Library when she hears a noise from behind and she is attacked. Her fate is unknown, but she appears to have recognised her attacker.
The White Dragon in this incarnation is more curious and more active than before, largely because she is experiencing the world through her human disguise. She finds it an odd experience, saying that a human body constricts her and comments that "no wonder you are obsessed with freedom". Not surprisingly, given the particular form she's chosen, she finds that humans seem to enjoy looking at her. During her time in the Library, she has become interested in the knowledge available through books and has spent much of her time reading. She also does not manifest any power of her own, but like Cortez, she appears to be able to focus the abilities of others.
The White of the Kin is voiced by Jenny Maher.
