Isarma

This page is specifically for tracking Isarma's reincarnations through all volumes.

Common Traits of Isarma's Incarnations
Isarma usually appears with Adsartha's reincarnation, but not always. When she is incarnate, she usually becomes the high priestess of her religious community.

Domaris, The Fall of Atlantis
Isarma is the "temple name" given to Domaris in The Fall of Atlantis. Because of a vow Domaris and Deoris make, the soul known as Isarma is bound to reincarnate several times in atonement until finally being released, centuries later. Domaris is the mother of Micail, by the Atlantean prince Micon.

Caillean, The Forest House and Lady of Avalon, part 1

 * Eilan stared at (Caillean)...for a moment a name had echoed in her awareness as loudly as if it had been spoken. Isarma...when you were my sister, Isarma was your name...

When we first meet Caillean, she is a woman from Ireland (Eriu, or Hibernia). Her early life was spent with a "wild" tribe; she was likely the oldest of her mother's children, since she remembers many younger children and "a new baby always at the breast". Her father was often absent. She often ran away to escape the drudgery of housework and childcare. She was probably ten or eleven years old when she was raped by a stranger who lived alone by the sea; she estimates she was twelve when she was taken in by Lhiannon and treated as a foster daughter.

While we do know that Caillean received her "secret" name of Isarma from the priestesses under Lhiannon, it is unknown how much she ever knew about her previous incarnation as Domaris. Eilan, on the other hand, has at least one vision during her own initiation that gives her a hint of Caillean's former lives.

Dierna, Lady of Avalon, part 2; Priestess of Avalon

 * He turned to her and those eyes widened. "Heart of Flame!"

"Heart of Flame" is what Micon called Domaris while courting her on Atlantis. Dierna is addressed as such by Carausius when she invites him to Avalon; only then does she realize she not only knew, but loved him, in a previous lifetime. Carausius' vision also seems to imply that Dierna may have been Sianna, holding Gawen as he died defending the standing stones at the top of the Tor of Avalon during Caillean's time, or that Caillean had loved (but not been in love with) Gawen for Eilan's sake.