Auntie Wide
Names: Auntie WideAunt Wide
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 49 (The First Tale of Yun Tianming “The New Royal Painter”)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 49Dewdrop's former wet nurse and caretaker, whom the princess feels closer to than her mother; she supplies the obsidian iron.
- Ch 49Auntie Wide is the princess's caretaker, who holds the spinning umbrella over her and packs belongings for the journey.
- Ch 50She is the princess's old servant, who held Prince Deep Water as a baby and keeps the spinning umbrella over the princess by day.
- Ch 51Holds the spinning black umbrella that protects Dewdrop and recognises Shaded-Forest and Open-Field from the palace.
Connections
- family ofPrincess Dewdropformer wet nurse and caretaker
- ally ofPrincess Dewdropcaretaker
- ally ofcaptain of the palace guards
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 49Ethereal warns the princess
Ethereal arrives with a spinning umbrella, explains Needle-Eye's magic, and with Auntie Wide's obsidian iron begins flattening snow-wave paper to paint Needle-Eye.
- Book 3 · Ch 49Ethereal sacrifices himself
Ethereal gives instructions for the umbrella and tells the princess to bring Deep Water to kill Needle-Eye. He urges her to leave, then is painted into a picture and vanishes.
- Book 3 · Ch 49Flight from the palace
At dawn the princess, Auntie Wide and the captain leave in a carriage in disguise, while Needle-Eye finishes the princess's portrait.
- Book 3 · Ch 50Flight to the sea
Having escaped the palace unpursued, the princess, Auntie Wide and Long-Sail travel a day by back routes, keeping the umbrella spinning, and reach the shore at midnight, where a plank is devoured by glutton fish.
- Book 3 · Ch 51Crossing to Tomb Island
Long-Sail, Dewdrop and Auntie Wide row a small boat to Tomb Island, dragging soap foam that pacifies the glutton fish, and reach Prince Deep Water.