Evelyn Sader

Evelyn Sader
Alias	Elle (formerly)
Personal Status
Status	Deceased
Relatives	August Sader (brother) Rhian (son), deceased R. Japeth (son)
Place of Origin	Unknown
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Abilities and Equipment
Talent	Dress turns into butterflies that she can hear through and control.
Fingerglow	Blood Red
Weapons	Butterfly spies
Professional Status
Position	Professor (formally) Dean of the School of Girls
Occupation	Teacher
School	Evil (formerly) Girls (formerly)
Physical attributes
Hair Color	Brown (Chestnut)
Eye Color	Green (Forest)

‘‘ I have the power to listen to the present and it is an even stronger power. I can listen to words, desires and secrets...even yours. ’’

—Evelyn Sader

Evelyn Sader appears in the second installment of the series as well as the fifth book of the series through memories as well as her offspring and a lot of references. She is the half-sister of August Sader. She is a former professor from the School for Evil until she was evicted. She then returned after the School Master's death so as to revive him, and became the Dean for the School of Girl.

Appearance

Evelyn is a described as being very beautiful. She wears a dress covered in blue butterflies, which fly around the School and listen to students' conversations, as the butterflies can hear (although it is implied they cannot see, as some people glare at the butterflies without the insects taking notice) and a pair of blue glass heels. While she is Dean of the School for Girls, her dress and butterflies are described as being electric blue, but ten years earlier her dress and butterflies were blood red. She is tall and slim, with a full bosom and with waist length, chestnut brown hair, and forest green eyes. She has thick eyebrows, full pink lips, and a gap between her two front teeth. Sophie describes her as being more beautiful than her own mother, and says that she looks like a storybook princess, and she wonders how Evelyn’s skin looks so smooth.

Personality

Evelyn Sader is shown to be very intelligent and cunning, and is described by the teachers as always being 'one step ahead'. She serves the School Master. She is cruel, ruthless, and dislikes when her rules are not followed. Evelyn enjoys having power and seems to relish causing others mental pain. She is also quite persuasive.

History

Childhood

Not much is known about Evelyn Sader's childhood, only that she may or may not have been raised by Constantine Sader. Her mother is unknown. She is not considered part of the Sader line, nor does she possess the family's seer powers. However, similar to Agatha's own talent, she can hear and sometimes answer the wants and wishes of those around her.

Adulthood

At some point, she went to go visit with her friend Grisella Gremlaine who resided in Camelot as King Arthur's adviser. At the time, Arthur was not yet married to Guinevere, but they were planning their wedding. This made Grisella jealous, so in an attempt to stop Gwen and Arthur from getting married, she enlisted Evelyn to make a "spansel" which would allow the wearer to conceive children without going through the motions of intimacy. When the time came to use the spansel, Lady Gremlaine panicked and disowned the spansel, never having used it. When she fled the room, Evelyn picked up the spansel and attempted to use it for herself, before being thwarted by Lady Gremlaine and banished from every single kingdom in the Woods by Arthur.

She took refuge under the School Master at the School for Good and Evil as a history teacher at the School for Evil. After two months of employment, she was banished for crimes against students.

Evelyn thought that she was the School Master's true love, even though her half brother had predicted that the School Master's true love would be a Reader. The School Master snarled that Evelyn was not a seer and therefore could not know this. Evelyn retorted that she had a greater power: the ability to hear the present, particularly the wishes and secrets in others' hearts, which was how she knew what he truly desired. She inflicted chaos in the School for Good by listening to the Evers' conversations and then repeating the insults and jealousies.

When the Dean of the School for Evil tried to make Evelyn stop provoking jealousy among the Evers, Evelyn revealed that she knew that Lady Lesso was secretly raising her son in a cave outside the School gates.  With the threat of revealing this to the School Master, who had forbidden teachers in the School for Evil from having any personal attachments, Evelyn sneered that one day Lady Lesso would be forced to choose between herself and her son.

This, however, prompted both Clarissa Dovey, Dean of the School for Good, and Lady Lesso to agree for the first time ever, and the School Master informed August Sader that he would need to take over his sister's classes once she was gone.  The School Master also inquired why August had been so insistent that Evelyn be given a place in the School, August would only say that perhaps it was too early for Evelyn to be at the School.

When the School Master evicted her from the School, Evelyn taunted him for believing her brother's vision that the School Master's true love would be a Reader from outside the world of fairy tales. He replied that she must leave anyway, so she threatened that he would die if he was wrong. In response,  he promised that if he was wrong and died, she would be allowed to return to the school so she could bring him back to life.

At some point before her eviction, Evelyn became pregnant with Rafal's child, and this only worsened the sickly, homeless state that she lived in for months. She was on the brink of death until she was found by Sir Japeth Kay, who would later become the Green Knight. He took care of her in return for her friendship at a time when he had no one and shepherded her to Sherwood Forest, where the two overheard a conversation between Arthur and Grisella Gremlaine where they both confessed their love for one another. Because of their mutual hatred of Arthur, they used this information to come up with the plot that put Rhian and Japeth in power. After this, Evelyn Sader gave Japeth the title of the 'Green Knight' and, in return, he blessed her unborn child with his magic. They parted soon after, with Evelyn promising to name her child after him.

She then fled to Foxwood to give birth because of the great number of high-ranking officials that pass through Sherwood. Her midwives were the Mistral Sisters, and she had twins. Rafal arrived shortly after the birth, and joked with her about taking the better-behaved child to school with him to make him seem more Good, giving the boy a fingerglow. She rebuked him, however, still angry at his decision to trust August over her, and told him that disowning her meant also disowning their children. Rafal allowed the boys to stay with Evelyn as per her decision, to one day grow up and fight each other over the throne of Camelot and put their bloodline in power. Evelyn reminded him that he would only be in power if he survived that long, and so Rafal entrusted the guidance of his sons to his sisters, along with a butterfly-turned-scim from Evelyn's dress imparted with the knowledge they would need. Evelyn pressed him further, worried about his prophesied queen being the one to kill him, and he made a prophecy of his own: that his son would have his revenge by making that queen his own. After Rafal's speculation over which brother would win the throne, Evelyn revealed to the father of the children their names: Rhian for the Good, rosy-skinned son, and Rafal Japeth for the Evil, pale child, for both his father and the knight who saved him.

She then raised her illegitimate sons Rhian and Rafal Japeth in secret.

A World Without Princes

After the School Master died the spell that kept Evelyn away from the schools was broken allowing her to return when the schools became separate boys and girls schools and she became the Dean of the girls school.She promoted hunting for men and even tried to teach girls to defend themselves. She tried to get Princess Uma to teach animal hunting but she refused which caused Evelyn to throw her out and exile her to the forest.

She receives Sophie and Agatha and offers them to become students at the new school, she secretly manipulates Sophie and introduces her to the idea that Tedros wants Agatha just for himself no matter how much suffering it causes Sophie.She is seen teaching history class, narrating with a special spell that projects vivid images, telling the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, a story which makes Agatha very uncomfortable since she did not know if that was the real story.

Evelyn figured out every step of Sophie and Agatha's plans, and also used her considerable intelligence (as well as her butterflies) to find out that Yuba was Helga, and Sophie was Filip.

When Agatha and Tedros kissed, the Storian began writing 'The End', until it was stopped by Evelyn's finger, she uses his magic for a nearby willow to hold Tedros and Agatha and covered their mouths . She then tricked Sophie into bringing back the School Master.

When the School Master was revived, he killed her and Evelyn fell to the ground, smashing into a hundred dead, red butterflies.

Abilities

• Summoning of butterflies: Evelyn has the ability to invoke butterflies through her dress, these magical butterflies are capable of lifting heavy objects such as furniture and can even lift people. In addition these butterflies can also act a communicators since Evelyn can hear and speak through them, when she's not wearing them, they blend into her dress and usually change color depending on her mood or if she uses strong magic. He also demonstrated the ability to dissolve into a swarm of butterflies and teleport through them.
• Wish Granting: Like Agatha, Evelyn can hear and grant wishes however it is not a power she can use as much as Agatha does.
• Magic:Evelyn can use magic, her finger glow is blood red.
  • Chlorokinesis: Evelyn can manipulate nature for many uses such as blooming flowers or conjuring roots and vines to hold people down.
  • Symptom Conjuration: Evelyn can conjure symptoms of nemesis, even if the person she affects is unaware of it.
• Manipulation: Evelyn knows how to manipulate people into doing what she wants, she prefers above all to manipulate people with a broken heart.