On the island, Candy learns that the Abarat consists of twenty-five islands, each occupying a different hour of the day, and was formerly connected to Candy's world before the harbor's destruction by Abaratian authorities. A group of creatures carry them to a nearby island where Candy is separated from him. After giving her a key to protect and extingushing the light, Mischief and Candy ride the seas to Abarat. Because he is pursued by a sinister creature named Mendelson Shape, Mischief sends Candy to light the lamp in the lighthouse, which summons an ocean known as the Sea of Izabella from a parallel world. She then encounters a master thief named John Mischief, whose brothers live on his horns. After an argument with her teacher over a school project, Candy leaves the school and goes to the edge of town, where she sees the remains of a lighthouse. In Abarat: Absolute Midnight it is revealed that she gained these powers by making a deal with the Nephauree, Those Who Walk Behind The Stars, who are evil, cosmic beings.Abarat focuses on Candy Quackenbush, a teenage girl frustrated with her life in Chickentown, Minnesota. These blasts eventualy weaken him and she throws him into the sea to drown. Mater Motley battles Christopher Carrion aboard the Wormwood and throws great blasts of energy at him. She also conceals the Wormwood from view using a mist-summoning technique. In Days of Magic Nights of War, she creates a gigantic wave into the Hereafter pulling the Wormwood in pursuit of the Lud Limbo. Mater Motley is the commander of her stitchling army and has some power over the elements. It is also revealed that she started the fire in the first place to keep her only surviving grandson's loyalty by saving him. She was only able to save Christopher Carrion and at many points throughout the book she regrets it. Mater Motley is the oldest surviving member on the Carrion family as they were all killed in a raging fire. In Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War In Abarat: Absolute Midnight Family When Carrion was younger, she sewed his lips shut for saying the word "love." She lives on Gorgossium and makes her way around the castle on a large animate zombie-like hand. Together they strive to create an absolute midnight where all the islands of the Abarat will be plunged into eternal darkness. She acts as more of a domineering follower of her grandson Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight. In the first novel, her full name is revealed as Thant Yeyla Carrion. She is a very cruel and monstrous woman, having killed many members of her family and mutilating her grandson's face. She has help with this task from members of her group of seamstresses. Mater Motley sews constantly in the Thirteeth Tower on Gorgossium, creating stitchlings to raise an army. This look may lend itself to the name Mater Motley from the Latin word for mother mater, and the word motley may refer to the assortment, or motley, of dolls sewn to her dress. Her hair is long and white, Her dress is made of many fabrics and dolls sewn together. She has a similar look as painted by the author to her grandson, with dry, greyish, corpse-like skin. Mater Motley is one of the main antagonists along with her grandson Christopher Carrion. 3 In Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War.
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