Aiyunne is a female Short-eared owl, or Asio flammeus, who was employed by the Kielian League as an ice harvester and acted as the mentor of Bela. She cared deeply for her comrades and showed grief over the deaths of these she worked close with.
History[]
The Rise of a Legend[]
Along with another member of her species, Friedl, and an unnamed Barn Owl, Aiyunne was one of the three ice harvesters assigned to an excavation operation of the Ice Dagger, which also included Aiyunne's scrapper apprentice, Bela. Along with her two fellow harvesters, Aiyunne, using a standard ice chisel, cut away at the ice cliff, chipping away shards of ice that Bela collected below her, showing her extraordinary flight skills as she did. The team, however, were the victims of a sudden and savage attack committed by hireclaws from the Ice Talons sent to seize ice weapons and Aiyunne henceforth fought in the Skirmish on the Ice Dagger, during which either she or Friedl finished off an enemy Tyto alba with an ice shard to the belly.
After the battle, she flew with her apprentice and the other owls to a rocky beach, where Aiyunne gently patted the sobbing Bela, who in turn expressed his condolences over Piet, who had been their only casualty. Answering tearfully that Piet's body was far beyond retrieval, having fallen into the deep sea, Aiyunne expressed her grief over not being able to give Piet a proper Northern Kingdom burial. She then flew on the Dark Fowl to alert the League to their enemy's movements.