The Illyrian Blade · A Valkyrie
Emerie
“My wings were clipped.”
Emerie · A Court of Silver Flames
Clipped wings. Unbroken spine.
Windhaven shopkeeper. First Illyrian female through the Blood Rite. Walked back out a Carynthian. We're still not over it.
At a glance
The shape of her.
Where she comes from
She survived the house she was born in.
Illyrian, raised in Windhaven under a father who clipped her wings and worse. He's dead now; the shop is hers. She runs it with her sleeves rolled — the rare Illyrian female who owns her own trade. We noticed.
What she became
They threw three women into the Rite. Two summited.
Drugged and dumped into the Blood Rite by traditionalist males who wanted to teach them a lesson. She climbed Ramiel on a body that couldn't fly and touched the sacred stone. First Illyrian female ever named Carynthian. The lesson landed differently than they planned.
What she loves
The life she built in spite of them.
Her shop
The Windhaven clothier — leather, wool, steel. Her father's once. Hers now, and run better.
Romance novels
The book club. Smut swapped and devoured with Nesta and Gwyn, no apologies. We'd join in a heartbeat.
Her sisters-in-arms
Nesta and Gwyn. The Valkyries. The first people who were ever truly hers.
Her people
The sisterhood she climbed with.
Her arc · Out of Windhaven
They clipped her wings. She climbed the mountain anyway.
The Shop
Cassian walks into a Windhaven clothier and meets the female who runs it. The first thread.
The Friend
Nesta comes in for warmer leathers. Two prickly women recognise each other. We knew where that was going.
The Training
Into the House of Wind with the trainees — clipped wings and all — running the shop between sessions.
The Blood Rite
Drugged and dumped on Ramiel with Nesta and Gwyn. They fight through as one.
Carynthian
She touches the stone at the summit. First Illyrian female in history to earn the name. We will never recover.
— On the mountain —
“There is no debt, Nesta.”
Emerie, at the Pass of Enalius · ACOSF
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Nesta →The friend who threw her a rope, then held the line so she could climb.
Gwyn → The Valkyries → The Night Court →