Avacyn - thousand years old

Before Avacyn had first appeared, a thousand years ago, there had been four sisters, one the eldest and most powerful of the angels.

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They hadn't known what to make of Avacyn at first. She was an angel, one of them, and yet not. They could not sense her, the way they could other angels. She was cold, opaque, reserved. Sigarda knew many humans felt the same way about her and her ilk—there were many reasons it was difficult for angels to have close relationships with mortals. But among each other, there was usually the joy of shared purpose, of the connection that one angel can only experience with another of her kind.

Avacyn shared no connection with the other angels.

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A GAZE BLANK AND PITILESS