Cahiramee is the fairy ambassador to the Western Dawn covenant. Although normally mages and fairies do not interact much Western Dawn is in the very lap of Petal Throne court, the largest in the area, and so Queen Elaida thought it was advisable to keep tabs on it. As Cahiramee himself puts it "knowing that I was the finest blade, finest harpist, finest storyteller, finest dancer, finest horseman and finest wit in all Poland she naturally chose me for this task". In actuall fact it was because although humans still give Cahiramee problems occasionally he seems a lot more normal to them that a full faery would.
Cahiramee is the son of a village woman named Janeta Tamblaina and a wandering faery knight named Eurinomee. He was brought up by his mother, the ward of the village priest, but his father visited him once a year in september, on his birthday. When he was seven his father gave him a harp, which he rapidly learned to play. At thirteen his father presented him at Petal Throne court, and he was instantly smitten with the queen. He impulsively pledged lifelong service to her on the spot, and has been in her thrall ever since. After that he began to travel more widely with his father, and has visited many of the local supernatural beings. He claims to have plucked a feather from a griffon, to have bandied riddles with a serpent, to have so charmed a great white faery hind that it let him ride it, to have dueled a goblin that was haunting a mine and forced it to let the miners continue their work unharrassed, to have fled from a giant twelve feet tall with two heads (or sometimes, if it has been a good night, a giant fifteen feet tall with three heads) and once, from afar, to have seen a dragon fly back to it's lair with a deer clutched in it's talons.
These trips stopped when his father was killed by what he takes to have been a vis-hunting necromancer. He was on the verge of suicide, but seeing this Queen Elaida reminded him of his oath to her and sent him off to carry a message to an outlying court. After that was done, he was sent to fetch her a feather from a phoenix, then as an emissary to the griffons... within a few months of constant toil Cahiramee was cured of his depression although he has never forgotten his father's death. After eight years as a wandering servant he was sent to settle down as emissary to the Western Dawn covenant, with the secondary objective of finding out all he could about the destruction of Golden Circle and the survivors thereof.Cahiramee claims to be the finest harpist in Poland, and having heard him play you would not be prepared to swear that he is wrong. He can harp the birds out of the trees and the beasts from their lairs. He is a skilled fencer, and he knows a wide variety of stories and sagas. He generally wears a combination of brightly coloured clothes, with a broad brimmed hat containing what he swears is a griffon feather, and a faery cloak that glitters in green, blue, gold and scarlet patterns of birds and plants. He carries a finely crafted rapier and dagger of a strange blue-green metal, and a light suit of mail of the same material. He is tall and thin, with fine bones and high cheeks, long dark hair and a small, neat beard. He smiles a lot, and there is something about his smiles and his outrageously absurd sallies that softens all but the hardest hearts. All the grogs are somewhat in awe of him, and he gets on well with most of the less dour mages and companions.
His closest friends, however, are the twins. He was the first adult to take an interest in them, and even before Helena examined their dreams he spent a lot of time with them. After that he has tried literally not to let them out of his sight, except when they are with Helena or at the covenant with several other people. He sleeps in the room next to theirs, with his weapons in easy reach. He also gets on especially well with Helena, whom he sees as a kindred spirit, someone else who is half-way between the human and faery worlds, with Maria, whose love of storytelling and whose rebellious spirit he identifies with, and with Bruno, whose simple good nature and martial courage are things Cahiramee admires, and with who he often trains. But in truth Cahiramee is easy to like, and gets on well with almost everyone around the covenant.