“Freed of her enwrapping cloaks and shawls, Viviane, Lady of Avalon, was a
surprisingly little woman, no taller than a well-grown girl of eight or ten.  In her loose tunic with its wrapped belt, a knife sheathed at her waist, and bulky woolen breeches, legs wrapped with thick leggings, she looked tiny, a child put into adult clothes.  Her face was small, swarthy and triangular, the forehead low beneath hair dark as the shadows beneath the crags.  Her eyes were dark too, and large in her small face; Ingraine had never realized how small she was.”

 Despite Viviane’s small size, she can be very intimidating when she chooses to
be.  When invoking the power of the Goddess, Viviane sometimes seems tall and imposing.  Viviane is the imposing and cold part of the Goddess.  She seems merely a tool of fate with little control over her own life despite of the control she seems to have over others.

 
 Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Mists of Avalon.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.