Onilwyn

Onilwyn was a sidhe lord and a member of the Queen's Ravens. He had once been a deity, Lord of the Ash Grove. He had always been Prince Cel's friend and was one of those who tormented Princess Meredith when she was a child.

He had long, thick, dark green hair, and eyes of grass green, with a starburst of gold around the pupil. He was handsome, but Meredith did not like him, and found excuses not to sleep with him even when he was sent to her by her aunt, the queen.

In Swallowing Darkness, he was part of the conspiracy to kill Merry's consorts. When she confronted him outside the sithen, he tried to kill her. She stabbed him with an arrow of cold iron, and then used her Hand of Blood to open the wound and bleed him out before he could reach her. Even as he died she saw only the hatred for her in his face, when at last he asked for mercy she asked why she should show mercy to one who would kill her unborn children, and asked him if he saw forgiveness in her face. His last word was 'no.'