Alianora appears in only three panels from the series, but we can suspect, based on their brief conversation, that there is a much bigger history between them.
When Dream uncreates Barbie's world in A Game Of You, Alianora is the last of the characters who enters into the darkness of his cloak. Alianora appears to have once been Dream's lover a long time before and he made some sort of agreement that he would eventually destroy her world.
Gaiman, through Barbie's voice, speaks of Alianora and says "She was magnificent. She looked very proud and very sad."
The mysteries that surround Alianora include her past relationship with Morpheus as well as the events that lead to her sadness and how she came to have a scar upon her cheek. Hopefully someday we will learn the answers to these questions.
There are additional comments in "The Kindly Ones", where (if I recall correctly) when the furies scar Sandman's cheek, he recalls that Allianora had predicted that a day would come when Morpheus would be scarred in the same way as he had scarred her.
ReplyDeleteYep, you are right. The exact quote from Dream is " Alianora foretold that I would receive my scars, in my turn, like the one I left on her cheek, like the one I left on her heart." Good catch!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat discussion, I was just reading "Seasons of Mists" and am of the opinion Desire indicated Morpheus murdered her. It seems that only a handful of his failed relationships are discussed throughout the series, and they all connect somehow in little snippets of conversation.
ReplyDeleteDesire indicated he murdered one of them, and the Furies warning seems to confirm that.
Alianora also appears on the Wake, giving an speech. What she said it's unknown but she was refered as "dead"
ReplyDeleteThat's a really good observation. Yes, she does seem to be in the Wake, giving a speech. This happens in Sandman # 72, page 15
ReplyDeleteShe was also the recipient of one of Dream's 12 Dreamstones, the Rose-Quartz, as Morpheus tells Matthew in their last conversation.
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DeleteThe gemstone mounted on the Porpentine was pink; a Rose Quartz, perhaps?
DeleteYep. Great find!!! I missed this!!! It's little details like this that make Sandman an awesome and complex series!!!
ReplyDeletecould it be she was a vortex ?
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