At the Abhorsen's house, she meets Mogget, and it is only then that she learns that there has been no king in two hundred years. She soon finds that she is not nearly skillful enough with magic or knowledgeable enough about her homeland. She returns to the Old Kingdom to save her father. She interprets this to mean that her father is trapped deep in Death. Shortly before she was to graduate from her school, Wyverley College in Ancelstierre, a Dead servant of her father's gave her his bells and his sword. By her father's wishes, Sabriel grew up in Ancelstierre after living a few years in the Old Kingdom with her father. Sabriel and her mother died shortly after birth, but her father, the Abhorsen Terciel, retrieved Sabriel from the hands of the Greater Dead Kerrigor in Death. Sabriel is the protagonist of the first novel. Sabriel Representation Character Summary She is a powerful Charter Mage, as well as the 53rd Abhorsen (her father Terciel was 52nd and her half-sister Lirael will be 54th). She is the Mother of Prince Sameth and Princess Ellimere, as well as the wife of King Touchstone. She is also a key (if minor) character in Lirael and Abhorsen. Sabriel is the main (and titular) character of the first book in the series of the 'Old Kingdom Series', Sabriel.
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