Dacey

Dacey, known as Dacey the Golden, was a royal guard in the Seelie court. When Meredith and Sholto led the Wild Hunt into the sithen in Swallowing Darkness, Dacey was one of two guards who fought the incursion and wounded one of the hellhounds with a blade of cold iron.

A riderless horse became Dacey's mount, his touch remaking it into a steed with hooves edged in gold, its eyes glowing as yellow as its rider's hair. It became equipped with a silk and golden bridle. Dacey was condemned by the wild magic to join the hunt for fighting against it. He confirmed to the other Seelie that the Wild Hunt was in earnest, "We attacked the hunt, now we ride with it. They are the huntsmen for this night...If the Great Hunt is a spell, than I am under it."

When the Chalice appeared before Meredith after the Hunt rode to rescue Mistral, it was Darcey who told the doubting sidhe that the Chalice was real, that he could feel the magic of it. After she had used the cup to annoint Mistral's wound's she offered it to Dacey and the other sidhe caught up in the hunt, and they drank from it. Meredith bade them return to the Seelie and tell them of the Chalice's return and how it had chosen it's bearer: Meredith.