Efa

Efa is a main charactor in the book as well as a member of The Three.

Background and Personality
Her father was a ***, and she grew up happy and engaging. During her childhood, she got the rare opprotunity to pilgrimage with her father to the Circle Abbey, which could only be reach after a long journey.

After her father's business fails and their family begins to starve, Efa volunteers at 15 to go to Morwoth for a matchmaking cerimony which paired her with her husband, Vesth.

After being married to Vesth and suffering his abuse, her spirit slowly begins to change. She loses her abilty to see beauty around her, and her day-to-day activities become automatic.

Role in Novel
Efa's chapter is the first in the novel, and we open to her going on her daily walk to get water. She thinks about the grey that is previlent in Gowaith, the corner that Corvale is located in.

Upon coming to a clearing, she spies a sunbeam in the field near the town and approaches. She soaks up the sun, but is dissapointed that she does not feel better. When the clouds snuff out the sunbeam, she spies some nuns from the Circle Abbey and is reminded of her fathers' and her trip there.

In Efa's second chapter, her house is burned down, and her baby and husband killed. She feels no sorrow, and is at a loss for what to do. She decides to go to the Circle Abbey to receive counsel. When buying supplies, the town's people show concern for her journey, and she chastizes them for caring only now rather than when she was suffering under her husband.