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Mequen Balitang is a noble in the Copper Isles and related to the royal family. He was married twice. He has two daughters from his first marriage with Sarugani Temaida, Saraiyu Balitang and Dovasary Balitang. With his second wife, Winnamine Balitang, he has another daughter, Petranne Balitang, and a son, Elsren Balitang. He has a close friendship with both Bronau Jimajen and his brother Rubinyan Jimajen. In 462 HE he arouses the wrath of King Oron and is sent into exile to the estates of his late wife, Tanair. There he is betrayed by his friend Bronau, who plans to marry Sarai to eventually become king. He murders Mequen.
Biography
He has been friends with Bronau Jimajen and Rubinyan Jimajen ever since they were children. He and Bronau went through their training for knighthood together. He married his second wife, Winnamine Fonfala Balitang only years after the death of his first wife Sarugani.
Physical description
Mequen is luarin, and a descendant of the luarin ruling house, the Rittevons.
Personality and traits
Relationships
Family
Balitang Family Tree
Romantic relationships
Mequen was deeply in love with his first wife, Sarugani Temaida. Thus her death was hard for him. He refused to remarry for years and only the head of the Balitang family, his aunt Nuritin Balitang convinced him to take a new wife by telling him he owed as much to his family. Thus he eventually married Winnamine Fonfala, one of Sarugani's closest friends. They, too, developed a very close relationship and their marriage wasn't only based on the benefit of the family but also on love. They understood each other so well that they could even communicate without speaking, just by looking at each other.
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Trickster's Choice (electronic edition), Ch. 2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trickster's Choice (electronic edition), Ch. 3.
- ↑ Given that Saraiyu and Dunevon Rittevon were second cousins (Trickster's Queen (electronic edition), Ch. 12), this was the logical point for the marriage. The Rittevon woman must have been Oron Rittevon's aunt.
- ↑ Trickster's Queen (electronic edition), Ch. 2.
- ↑ Zaimid was a distant cousin of the Carthaki emperor, Kaddar Iliniat. Trickster's Queen (electronic edition), Ch. 4.
- ↑ Zaimid and Saraiyu planned to name the child with whom she was pregnant in Trickster's Queen Mequen if the child were a boy, but it was not confirmed whether the baby was liveborn and male or not. Trickster's Queen (electronic edition), Ch. 12 and Ch. 21.