Olana Mansdaughter

Olana Mansdaughter is a respected lowlander tutor.

Biography
Olana was sent from Asland, the capital of Danland, to teach the village girls how to act womanly. Olana is the tutoress for the girls. She asks them to address her as Tutoress Olana. Her punishments are cruel, such as locking them in a closet or not letting them go home for a weekend. Olana is very proper and she believes it is her duty to teach the girls at princess academy to be that too. Olana acts as if she is high above the girls, because she is a lowlander.

After she told them they couldn’t go home for spring holiday the girls ran back home to celebrate with their families. As they ran Olana yelled at them if they ran they could not come back. The girls returned to the academy after the holiday and used the Principles of Diplomacy Olana had taught them to set some new rules that Olana must follow upon their return. Olana, impressed with their new skills, agreed as long as they swore to study hard. At the end of the book Olana lets Miri keep the clay tablets they used to help teach the village as well as 6 books and the painting Olana used to motivate the girls. She tells Miri the only reason she was so cruel to them was so the girls would study harder to spite her.

Quotes

 * "I have very real doubts that mountain girls are capable of measuring up to other Danlanders. Your brains are naturally smaller I've heard. Perhaps due to the thin mountain air?"
 * "Do you want to look like imbeciles? Do you really want the guests to believe every frightful thing they've heard about the outlying territories? Stand up straighter, pronounce your words. For pity's sake, stop looking like you want to humiliate me!"