The Knight and the Moth

Sybil, also known as Six, is the narrator and protagonist of The Knight and the Moth. She is described as strong, with cropped, white-blonde hair and stone eyes. Her eyes are stone because of her exposure, as a Diviner, to the water of the magical spring in Aisling Cathedral. Sybil was a sick foundling girl from the Seacht, and before she died, she was taken to Aisling Cathedral, where she died and was resurrected in the spring water by the abbess. The abbess told Sybil that she was special, capable of having prophetic dreams and seeing the signs of the godlike Omens. Sybil believes the abbess’s lies, as she has no previous memories from her life before Aisling Cathedral, and her unthinking acceptance establishes the novel’s theme of The Influence of Faith. 

At the beginning of the narrative, Sybil thinks that being a Diviner makes her superior to others. When she steps into the spring to begin divining for the king, Sybil thinks, “I wondered if, in that moment, I was seeing Benedict Castor more clearly than anyone ever had. It was why I loved being a Diviner. I felt so much wiser, stronger, standing in Aisling’s spring.