Issi

Issi is Hylas’s sister. She is three years younger than him and is described as looking a lot like him: fair hair and tawny eyes, and she, like Hylas, has a bond with Havoc the lioness. She and Hylas get separated during the Crows’s attack at the beginning of Gods and Warriors, and from then on it’s Hylas’s goal to find her again (along with destroying the Dagger of Koronos). In Hylas’s memory, she often appears as chatty, argumentative and sharp-tongued, but when Hylas finds her again in Warrior Bronze, she is mute, although it can be said that her personality is the same. Issi has a deep affection for Hylas, and is jealous of the fact that Pirra and Hylas are so close - whilst she was hiding out in Messenia, waiting for Hylas, Hylas was in Thalakrea, Keftiu and Egypt with Pirra as his sidekick - although at the end of the book, Issi and Pirra’s relationship improves, and Issi is revealed to have lost her jealousy as she finds humour in Hylas’s nervous request for Pirra to live with him as ‘his girl’. Issi’s favourite animal is a frog.