Medea (The Icemark Chronicles)

Medea
The Icemark Chronicles character
Medea as portrayed on the US Cover
First appearance	Blade Of Fire
Last appearance	Last Battle Of The Icemark
Created by	Stuart Hill
Information
Aliases	Princess/Dark Witch/Adept
Species	Human/Wise One
Gender	Female
Occupation	Witch
Title	Princess Of The Icemark
Family	Oskan (Father), Thirrin (mother), Cressida (Sister), Cerdic, Eodred, Charlemagne (Brothers)
Relatives	Redrought (Grandfather), Cronus (Grandfather)
Religion	Unnamed belief that follows the Goddess
Nationality	The Icemark

Medea Clytemnestra Strong-In-The-Arm Lindenshield is a fictional character and the chief antagonist from Stuart Hill's fantasy trilogy of books called The Icemark Chronicles. She appears in a major role in both Blade Of Fire and Last Battle Of The Icemark. She does not appear in The Cry Of The Icemark as it is set 20 years previously to the other novels.

Medea is the second youngest child (youngest daughter) of Queen Thirrin and Oskan Witchfather. Her full name is Medea Clytemnestra Strong-In-The-Arm Lindenshield. She is 15 years old. She has an elder sister - Crown Princess Cressida, 17, A pair of elder Twin Brothers - Cerdic & Eodred, 16, and a younger brother - Charlemagne,14. She is part of the Royal family of the Icemark and is a princess. She is a descendant of the Wise Ones (the fallen immortal spirits and angels banished from the spirit realms to the Darkness).

Medea is looking out of her window from her tower room and brooding over the fact that her parents, who are marching home from The Ice Troll Wars will greet the rest of the family before her. She has a memory about how when she was sharing a nursery with Sharley when she was younger Sharley had broken a toy horse. She had fixed it for him, using magic, before making him tearfully watch as she broke it again. Throughout the cause of the book it is revealed that she is deeply jealous of her younger brother because of the attention and love his get as he got a withered leg when he suffered polio.

Medea tries to get Sharley killed by magically having a Greyling Bear attack him as he attempts to hunt