Liss, or Lissarathel, was a mage, seeress, and healer in the city of Li Heng. She was described as an old hag with hands all gnarled and disfigured with arthritis, with a dark, wide mouth full of rotten stumps, and who stank of fish. She was a fat woman with matted greasy ropes of hair who wore tattered layered skirts and a stained muslin wrap. Liss saw visions of true and possible futures. When she first met Hurl she greeted her as the "Builder". When she first met Rell she hissed her breath in something that may have been awed admiration.