Yolland

Yolland was a royal guard in the Seelie court. When Meredith and Sholto led the Wild Hunt into the sithen in Swallowing Darkness, Yolland was one of three guards, along with Dacey and Turloch, 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 Yolland's mount, his touch remaking the wild magic into a green steed with vines laced around it as a bridle. The vines covered him as well, in a suit of living green.

When the hunt left the mound to rescue Mistral from an assassination attempt, it was Yolland who moved the would be murderer's body away from Mistral's, and left him for Meredith to preform the coup de grace, and then he and Dacey pulled the arrows of cold iron from Mistral's body. When the Chalice appeared before her, she anointed Mistral's wounds and then let the sidhe lords drink from the cup.

Yolland then said he would bear the mark of the goddess, and a thin vine engendered by the magic of the Chalice wrapped around his wrist, he flinched as thorns cut into him and then a living tattoo settled around the wrist. He was pleased to have a mark of power from one of the sidhe royals, but Turloch told him Taranis would not be pleased.

Yolland told Turloch that he wanted to serve and that Turloch had not asked for a mark was to his shame.