Abeyan

Abeyan is a pseudohistorical woman noted in many sources in the Eleven Cities as the Tyrosian wife of the wizard Morogyad.

History

The pre-Wesmodian biographical tradition surrounding Morogyad agrees almost unanimously that he married during his mid-career sojourn in Tyros. Hephryan of Tyros and Typhan of Ramoros both agree that he married a woman named Abeyan. The Ramoros Libram and Orrdelph do not name his wife but assert he had one in Tyros.
Hephryan and Orrdelph agree that Morogyad and his wife had three children, sons Torolod and Pholadros and a daughter named Qesarayas.
No biographer reports Abeyan's response to the widely-agreed-upon fact that Morogyad eventually quit Tyros and flew to Oluz without his family.

Legend

The Ramoros Libram reports that Morogyad acquired his wife after saving her from drowning after she fell overboard during a party on a boat. He supposedly did this in the course of arriving in the harbour of Tyros in the form of an octopus. Exactly the same story is told about the eldest of The Dog's Seven Daughters. This may be taken as corroborating evidence for that Tyrosian folk tradition, linking it with the more formally documented (albeit still contentious) Morogyad tradition, and thus identifying the (otherwise nameless) daughter as Abeyan. Conversely it may be taken as evidence that Morogyad may not have married at all, and that the biographers who asserted he is somehow got carried away when linking him to his adopted insular home. The weight of opinion bends towards the first possibility, though the case is emblematic of the fact that thaumatologists spend their careers conjuring with the gap between history and fiction.