The eldest daughter of Lord Joachim Al-Hastur, Tahireh is seen as a problem child. Instead of learning finance and haggling, she prefers to sequester herself and waste time writing. She frequently slips out of sight and mingles with the lower classes in disguise, then writes long poems about the suffering of the unimportant. She frequently criticizes the nobility for the plight of the peasants, not seeing how their suffering is their own fault. The poor girl needs to be married away...a proper husband will beat these foolish notions out of her.