Tam Song

Tam Song
Aliases	Shade Boy Bangs BoyTammyTammy BoyShade PetShady McSilverbangs
Ability	Shade
Age	16
Gender	male
Species	elf
Family	Songs
Appearance
Hair color	Black with silver tips
Eye color	Pale blue flecked with silver
Skin color	pale
Other
Residence	Choralmere (0-11), Wildwood Colony (11-15), Ermete's Residence, Alluvetere, Solreef
Affiliations	Black Swan (currently), Neverseen (formerly)

Tam Dai Song is a character from the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. He is a Shade, a member of the Black Swan, and a formerly and temporarily forced member of the Neverseen. He grew up at Choralmere with his twin Hydrokinetic sister Linh and his abusive parents Mai and Quan Song. When he was eleven (pre-KOTLC), Tam left the Lost Cities with Linh after she got banished and began attending Exillium in the Neutral Territories. In the 4th book, Neverseen, he meets Sophie Foster (the protagonist of the series) and her friends after they get banished. He helps them sneak into the ogre kingdom Ravagog, fight the Neverseen, and save the gnomes with Linh. His banishment was later lifted by the Council, and he became a member of the Black Swan. In Lodestar, he and Shaylyn Vacker find a secret entrance in one of the Silver Tower's mirrors. He uncovers a secret room, and inside finds a Lodestar Symbol gadget, (later discovered to be able to transport users to any connected Neverseen hideout.) He accidently transports Sophie, Fitz, and himself into one of said hideouts, discovers he can break through forcefields, helps Sophie and Fitz capture two important Neverseen members (Brant and Ruy), and earlier had a bus-load of human teens swooning over him. In Nightfall, Tam, Sophie, Shaylyn, and Marella go to the newer Nightfall facility to try and find Sophie's human parents. They find a bunch of empty storage rooms, gorgodon bones (a species created by Lady Gisela), and the Neverseen member Alvar Vacker, who was unconscious and wounded. When Alvar needed to be taken to a place the Neverseen wouldn't think of, Tam volunteers his childhood home, Choralmere, stating that the Neverseen would never expect it and that it would also freak his parents out. Later, he joins the group going to Vespera's older Nightfall facility. In the 7th book Flashback, he starts to learn how to control the 6th element, shadowflux, helps Wylie hide the Everglen troll hive with an illusion, and later becomes a member of the Neverseen, taken captive by Lady Gisela to be the their new Shade after their previous one, Umber, died.