![]() ![]() She travels to the mines where she and Coira are reunited. When he sets eyes on the beautiful Coira, he decides on her.Īrpazia, learning of Coira’s escape, sets out to find her. He fancies himself to be the god of the underworld and is looking for his queen. The mines are ruled by a despotic lord who goes by the name Hadz. One of them is a handsome man named Hephaestion. Coira and her seven companions travel to a large mine far away where the little people find work. ![]() As Coira becomes a woman, Arpazia in her deluded state comes to believe Coira, who looks so much like her, stole her beauty and youth and the only way to regain it is by killing the girl.Ĭoira escapes from the castle with a troupe of travelling little people (the dwarves of the story) that came to the castle to entertain the king. The horrors Arpazia experienced makes her lose her mind and leaves her incapable of even recognising her own child.Ĭoira grows up only knowing her mother from afar. Arpazia falls pregnant from the attack and gives birth to a girl named Coira. In the midst of winter his castle is attacked by King Draco, who slaughter the inhabitants and rapes Arpazia before bringing her back to his own castle as his queen. The plot is a retelling of the fairy tale of "Snow White", combined with the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone.Īrpazia is the young beautiful daughter of a lord. ![]() White As Snow (2000) is a fantasy novel by Tanith Lee. ![]()
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