Turloch

Turloch was a royal guard in the Seelie court. When Meredith and Sholto led the Wild Hunt into the sithen in Swallowing Darkness, Turloch was one of three guards, along with Dacey and Yolland, who fought the incursion with blades of cold iron. They were condemned by the wild magic to join the hunt for fighting against it.

A riderless horse became Turloch's mount, his touch remaking the wild magic into a pale steed, appearing as if a pastel rainbow moved and flowed beneath the white hide.

When the hunt proceeded from the mound to the outskirts of faerie to rescue Mistral, the Chalice appeared before Meredith so that she might anoint the storm lord's wounds.

Turloch insisted the cup could not be the Chalice. She then presented the cup to the Seelie sidhe and they drank from it, after the other two had each taken a different liquid from it, Turloch knelt and wept; "Goddess save us." Meredith assured him Danu was trying to, and she let him drink. She ordered them to return to the Seelie and tell what they had seen.

Turloch was sure that the king would see her dead out of jealousy that the Chalice had chosen another.