# Iobel Swan

{{Character_Infobox
|title = Iobel Swan
|image = iobel.png
|full_name = Queen Iobel Maryah Swan Cartalian of [[Marlatia]]
|known_as = Iobel
|species = Human
|gender = Female
|sexuality=Straight
|template = Bell
|template_name = Katydid
|world = Hex
|mother = Raney Swan
|father = Kalars Swan
|significant_other=[[Edarial Cartalian]]
|continuity=Incandescence
|wb = Alicorn
|pb = Kristen Stewart
|username = come_midnight}}
Iobel is the [[:Category:Bell|Bell]] from the [[Hex]] universe.

==History==
===Background===
Iobel was born in South Fork, [[Marlatia]] to Raney and Kalars. Her parents divorced shortly thereafter, with Kalars remaining in South Fork where he worked as a police officer while Raney moved to the capital city of Emavan to work as a school teacher. She bound her spirit animal [[Cricket (Hex)|Cricket]] to be her [[:Category:Familiar (Hex)|familiar]] when she was seven and became a [[:Category:Binder (Hex)|spellbinder]].<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/934.html?thread=199078#cmt199078 hostility]</ref> Once she was old enough she opened her own magic shop in Emavan.<ref>[http://come-midnight.dreamwidth.org/765.html?thread=15101#cmt15101 shindig]</ref> 
===Candidate===
Iobel is invited to an Equinox Revel party hosted by her great-aunt, where she meets and impresses [[Nataliem Oteliar|Lord Nataliem Oteliar]].<ref>[http://come-midnight.dreamwidth.org/765.html?thread=15101#cmt15101 shindig]</ref> When [[Edarial Cartalian|Prince Edarial]] expresses an interest in marriage, Nataliem arranges for Iobel to receive a royal order to appear at the palace as a possible bride.<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/537.html?thread=281#cmt281 announcement]</ref> Iobel attempts to flee the country rather than comply, but Nataliem's raven poisons Cricket.<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/537.html?thread=793#cmt793 announcement]</ref> When Iobel takes Cricket to the palace to be healed, Nataliem and the guards hold him hostage to force Iobel to remain as a candidate.<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/537.html?thread=4377#cmt4377 announcement]</ref> 
===Marriage===
Iobel tries to rescue Cricket, but is unsuccessful. After the candidates are interviewed by a clerk, Edarial selects Iobel's responses from the results and proposes.<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/537.html?thread=11033#cmt11033 announcement]</ref> They are married a week later, and Cricket is returned to Iobel.<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/537.html?thread=66073#cmt66073 announcement]</ref> Faced with inexplicable hatred from Iobel, Edarial retreats into seclusion but eventually he confronts Iobel, and they realize that Nataliem was the real culprit.<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/934.html?thread=89254#cmt89254 hostility]</ref><ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/934.html hostility]</ref> She, Edarial and Zevros promptly arrest Nataliem and Zevros helps Iobel locate his remaining associates.<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/934.html?thread=142502#cmt142502 hostility]</ref><ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/934.html?thread=152230#cmt152230 hostility]</ref> Iobel and Edarial then set about attempting to repair their relationship.<ref>[http://come-midnight.dreamwidth.org/1007.html?thread=141295#cmt141295 motherly]</ref>
===Plague===
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==Family==
Iobel's mother Raney is a schoolteacher in Emavan, the capital city of [[Marlatia]], and her father Kalars is a police officer in the town of South Fork.<ref>[http://royal-obligation.dreamwidth.org/934.html?thread=199078#cmt199078 hostility]</ref> Her great aunt is a countess also residing in Emavan, but she and Iobel's family are not close.<ref>[http://come-midnight.dreamwidth.org/765.html shindig]</ref> Iobel is married to [[Edarial Cartalian|King Edarial Cartalian]] and they are expecting a child.<ref>[http://alicorn.elcenia.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=257 forum: what might have been]</ref>

==Magic==
Because Iobel bound her spirit animal [[Cricket (Hex)|Cricket]] to become her [[:Category:Familiar (Hex)|familiar]], she is now a [[:Category:Binder (Hex)|spellbinder]]. She has memorized the following spells:
* Invisibility with a six minute charge time and an hourlong duration
* Knock out with a forty second charge time
* Wall walking with a two minute charge time
* Flight with a fifteen minute charge time and a five minute duration
* A spell to freeze water
* A spell which cured her [[Bell (Template)|clumsiness]]
* A variety of healing spells of varying purposes
* A variety of commercially valuable hexes to sell in her magic shop

==References==
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<!-- Raney's familiar is a caiman named Nimmen -->
[[Category:Binder (Hex)]]

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