Fen

High King Fen is the wife of Eliot Waugh and the leader of the High Council. Born in Fillory, Fen was betrothed to the High King before her birth by her grandfather, who demanded she become royalty as payment for his services in forging the Leo Blade to stop The Beast. She will help to shape the future of the land, become the first Fillorian officially on the throne and participate in the creation of the New Fillory, getting the nickname of Birth Mother of Fillory.

Biography

Early Life

Growing Up in Fillory

Fen was born in Fillory and raised by a family of knifemakers and swordsmiths. She was raised with two dads and a mother, being aware of polyamory couples happening in her land from a young age. Like every Fillorian girl, she went through Tree School, and eventually joined the radical group known as Fillorians United during her teenage years, in rebellion against having to marry a stranger, whom she didn't know if she would come to love.

Married to a Stranger

Quentin and Julia made a deal with Fen's grandfather to provide them access to the throne in exchange for the Leo Blade. After some time travel, they come to collect the blade decades later, as Fen's father is now the knife making shop owner. Using a knife that will only harm a High King, they manage to figure who will be the new leader of their land within the strangers from Earth. Fen is then to be married that night to Eliot Waugh and told by her father that she must consume the marriage that day to make it official.

Wife of the High King

The day after their wedding, Eliot leaves to battle The Beast and help Fillory. Fen - and Eliot - believe that this will kill him, so it is a surprise for her to see him come back with all his friends to her house; The Beast had not been comprehensively defeated, and they need to gather to form a new plan.

She heads to Castle Whitespire with Eliot to find that the castle has been poorly kept, and the throne room is locked due to a curse. While her husband and his friend are gone in the castle's armory, Fen gets to talk to Tick Pickwick and start the cleaning and upkeep of Castle Whitespire.

When Eliot's friend leaves for Earth and has to face the fact that he is alone in Fillory, Fen tries to be the wife she was told she had to be: obedient, quiet, and creating an heir. If Eliot empowers her to speak up, he is reluctant to be with her as she is not what he prefers.

While explaining to Eliot that, because of The Beast stealing Fillory's magic, the land and the crops of the farmers are dying, she is then confronted with the face that her husband is as clueless as her when it comes to leading an entire country. Through discussion, Fen makes Eliot realize that Fillorians use magic to grow crops, and then her husband introduces fertilizer to the farming land, saving them from famine. When the Throne room is finally clean, Eliot (and the other monarchs High Queen Margo, Queen Alice and King Quentin) become cursed by a spell put there by The Beast decades ago, making whoever sits on the thrones want to kill one another. With Penny's help, Fen will help them stop the curse from happening and save all of them.

Pregnant!

After insisting a few times to lay in bed with her husband, Fen becomes pregnant and is overjoyed to announce it to Eliot. she becomes quickly saddened by the fact that he seemed less than thrilled and when she privately tries to find the reason only for an assassination attempt to be made on her husband.

After discovering that it is the Fillorians United who were behind it, she goes to confront the leader, Bayler, who she reminds the group was never violent. Her allegiance changed now that she is a wife and a mother to be. After being threatened by Bayler to reveal she was one of them, Fen tells Eliot the truth, which makes him stop trusting her. Fen tries to defend herself, reminding him that she is not in this marriage for love but for the sake of Fillory.

Meanwhile, High Queen Margo put Fillory at war with Loria, which leads to Eliot having to combat King Idri. The changes are not so great for her husband to survive as Loria's king is a known swordsman. She runs to her father's house, where she remembered having a sword forged by her grandfather that granted whoever speaks the magical enchantment linked to it, would become a master swordsman as well. It had been crafted for a king who never came to claim it, and so she gives it to Eliot, who goes at war more confident than ever.

High Queen Margo, still trying to save Eliot from the combat and knowing that magic is sparse due to The Beast trick Fen into accepting a deal with the fairies where she does not know the terms yet. Eliot ends up coming back alive and with the promise of marrying Idri instead of killing him, which shocks Fen and Margo.

After it, Fen seems to sight many fairies looking at her for a second only to disappear. She tries to support her husband in his new marriage preparation, but her mind is elsewhere. Only when she sees that Margo, too, is seeing the Fairies that Fen is reassured that she is not losing her mind. She is then learning that the deal with the fairy she agreed on was to give her baby to the fairies. In a rage, Fen tells Margo to find a solution as she will not giver her baby and, when she is going to tell Eliot, the fairy tricked her and capture her away from Castle Whitespire.

The Fairies

Fen spends the rest of her pregnancy shackled in the dungeons of The Fairy Realm. When she gives birth, she cannot hold her daughter, who is then taken away from her. Devastated, she even refuses to follow Jost and Margo when they come to save her as she wants to leave with her daughter.

When she heard that the fairies were about to do a coup and take over Castle Whitespire, Fen managed to bargain with the Fairy Queen to go back home to warn Eliot and Margo. She pays the price of having her toes removed from her.

While The Fairy Queen is taking over Fillory and uses Margo and Eliot as puppets for her plan, Fen becomes disinterested in anything happening and goes into a deep postpartum depression that leads her to be delusional. She even goes to carrying a log and cuddles it as a replacement for her daughter

Fray

As Eliot is trying to find a solution to bring back magic and get rid of the Fairy Queen, Fen tells him about the Muntjac. Since she is the reason he is going on a quest, she invites herself to the journey. The Fairy Queen requests that someone she trusts on the boat and presents them to Frail Human, mostly known as Fray, who is their daughter, who grew up faster in the Fairy Realm. Fen ultimately buys the explanation and throws herself at her lost daughter while Eliot doubts her.

After many adventures that lead them to Outer Islands, where Fen can show her knife expertise to her husband, with pirates on the Muntjac and in the Neitherlands, Fen, Eliot and Fray finally arrive on Earth. Eliot sends her and Fray with Todd to explore New York City as he continues his quest with Quentin. She comes back full of glee to have experienced the "square of time" and had family-style dinner with Fray in a pizzeria. Despite Fray's reluctance, she tries to be a mother to her.

After Eliot and Margo leave to see the Fairy Queen in Fillory, Fray discovers that they have hidden fairy eggs in The Physical Kids' Cottage. Fen tries to stay loyal to her husband and explain that loyalty is to trust your family sometimes, even when you don't fully understand their actions. Fray flees, which alarms Fen, who warns Eliot and Margo, who were about to negotiate the ransom for the fairy eggs with the Fairy Queen.

The Fairy Queen arrives with Fray, who tells her everything Eliot has been doing to get rid of her and where the eggs are. Fen feels betrayed by her daughter, but when the Fairy Queen turns against Fray, she decides to come clean, saying that she is not their daughter. This forces the Fairy Queen to admit that Fen and Eliot's daughter died in childbirth, bringing Fen to tears and needing to leave Fillory, far away from any fairies.

Skye

She arrives on Earth and meets Alice, both of them drink, and Fen drunkenly advises Alice to lead her to do something about her doubt about magic. Fen drunkenly falls asleep only to wake up to Julia, opening the door to Irene McAllistair and Skye. Alarmed to see a fairy, she tells Julia who couldn't see Skye as she did not deal with the fairies.

Julia manages to convince Fen to help, which leads Fen to talk to Skye and discover her name and the fact that the fairy believes she is not a slave but working for Irene, so she is protected from other humans. Wanting to know more they investigate and find Skye being amputated of her leg as her limb grounded into fairy dust.

Julia wants to help, and Fen is reluctant as the fairies are why her daughter is dead. She ends up agreeing only if she does not have to pretend she likes the fairies, which Julia understands. Togehter, they find that the McAllistair Family has been having fairies for generations and uses the fairies as slaves and fairy dust for magic. They seek the Fairy Queen for her help, and she only agrees when Fen reminds her that she hates the fairies and yet wants to help because she believes their situation is not fair.

When Fen discovers that the collar they are wearing is only removable through beheading, she will confront Dust, a fairy who participated in the decapitation. Dust explains his ordeal while the Fairy Queen listens. Then Edwin McAllistair comes to get Skye to get more of her limb, Fen and Julia try to protect her only from being blasted to the wall by magic. Seeing humans trying to protect her kin, the Fairy Queen decides to finally help and breaks the deals her mother has made with the McAllistairs, freeing all of the fairies.

(Acting) High King