Hafiza

She runs the greatest school of healers in the world, and her final lesson to her best student isn't medicine. It's forgiveness for the empire that killed her mother.

Hafiza is the ancient Healer on High of the Torre Cesme in Antica, from Tower of Dawn — Yrene Towers's mentor and mother-in-all-but-name, keeper of a locked cabinet of forbidden Wyrd lore, and head of an order that was founded, in secret, to destroy the Valg.

At a glance

KIND: Human healer — the Healer on High of the Torre Cesme
RULES: The tower-academy of healers in Antica
HER GIFT: Silba-blessed — able to destroy Valg darkness
TO YRENE: Mentor, mother-in-all-but-name, and namer of her heir
THE FINAL TEST: Made Yrene heal Chaol — a man of the empire that killed her mother
REVEALED: The healers were founded, in secret, to fight the Valg
TAKEN BY: Duva, possessed, who bound her for a sacrifice
HER BRAVE ACT: Toppling her seat into the demon to free Yrene

Her people

The ones who mattered.

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What she loves

The long art, and who carries it.

She's spent a lifetime at the top of the Torre, and she counts it in the healers she raised.

The healing art
Slow, patient, learned over a lifetime. Her whole life's work.
The Torre Cesme
Every floor of it, and everyone climbing.
Her students
The next pair of hands. She trains them like the world depends on it.
Yrene
The one she saw coming from a mile off.

Her heart

The mending that outlasts the war

Wars come through the Southern Continent and wars move on; the Torre keeps standing, and keeps teaching. Hafiza's real work was never any single patient — it's making sure there's always someone better than her coming up the stairs. Yrene is the proof it works.

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The Torre Cesme Torre CesmeThe Torre is a thousand years of women who chose to mend instead of ruin, tier on tier of them, and she sits at the top of it as the Healer on High. She has taught more healers than she can name and buried a good many too. She knew what the girl from Fenharrow would become the moment she walked in. She usually does.Enter Torre Cesme

Her power

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