Rowan/Kaia is the young protagonist: visibly mottled, injured in a farm accident, given Fin, repeatedly misread as vessel/weapon/prophecy, and ultimately defined by her capacity to refuse imposed uses of power.
Location: Havenfield Farm
Maerlin Anu / Anne
Anne is Maerlin Anu, a clone/derivative of Danu who defects with the embryo/zygote that becomes Rowan/Kaia and carries her toward Earth and ordinary life.
Early Book I
The early Rowan material establishes ordinary life, othering, the farm accident, hospital awakening, Fin, partial revelation and escape before the mythology fully opens.