Dathenar Fandoris

Dathenar Fandoris [DATH-en-ar] was a Tiste Andii Soletaken dragon. She was the abandoned child of a High Priestess, and later became Korlat's Mistress of Assassination.

In The Crippled God

Dathenar Fandoris, Prazek Goul and Korlat accompanied Nimander and the Tiste Andii of Black Coral to Kharkanas. The three of them where all that remained of Anomander Rake's cadre of Soletaken dragons. They resisted Silanah's call to join her Storm of dragons to help Nimander fight the Tiste Liosan at the First Shore instead.

Dathenar was killed during the battle on the First Shore.

In Forge of Darkness

Prazek and Dathenar by Autumn Tavern

A Tiste by the name of Dathenar was the regular companion of a Tiste named Prazek in the Kharkanas Trilogy, however this Dathenar was of male gender.

Speculations

It is likely that the name Dathenar Gowl which appears in the Dramatis Personae of The Crippled God is a conflation of the two names of Dathenar Fandoris and Prazek Goul. The name does not appear in that form anywhere else. The appendix does list the other two following each other, and does not mention any Dathenar Gowl however, Prazek Goul is named Prazek Gowl in the appendix of some editions. Thus it is highly likely that the DP entry is based on a mistake made during the publishing process.

Given that Tiste by the name of Dathenar and Prazek are each others constant companions in The Crippled God as well as the Kharkanas Trilogy and that their relationship is a similar one in both, it has to be assumed that they are meant to be the same people. It is unclear as to whether the gender change of Dathenar was a continuity mistake or intentionally included by the author.

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