Alianne Crow (ah-lee-AHN), born Alianne of Pirate's Swoop and nicknamed Aly (AH-lee), was the only daughter of Alanna the Lioness and George Cooper, the Baron of Pirate's Swoop and the unofficial spymaster of Tortall. As such, Aly was born a Tortallan noblewoman to a very powerful family with very powerful connections, with King Jonathan IV and Queen Thayet I as a few of her godsparents. She was kidnapped when she was sixteen and taken as a slave to the Copper Isles, where she became entrenched in the raka conspiracy, a group dedicated to the removal of luarin oppressors. She went by the alias Aly Homewood, so as not to tie her origins back to some of the most important nobility of Tortall. Aly is descended from House Trebond, a family that is listed in the Book of Gold—which means it goes