Falkan Ennar

He traded twenty years of his life for a bolt of cloth, and spent those same twenty years searching for a niece he'd never met. He gets both back in the same war.

Falkan Ennar is a travelling merchant of Adarlan and a latent shape-shifter, from The Assassin's Blade and Tower of Dawn — a man aged to near-fifty by a spider's price, whose stifled magic wakes on the Southern Continent, and who turns out to be Lysandra's only living blood.

At a glance

KIND: Human merchant of Adarlan — and an unschooled shape-shifter
REALLY: Twenty-seven, though the bargain left him looking near fifty
THE PRICE: Twenty years of his life, traded to the Stygian Spiders
LARGEST FORM: A grey wolf — anything bigger is beyond him
FIRST GIFT: A six-inch square of spidersilk to Celaena — it later saves Sam
SEARCHED: Nearly twenty years for a niece he'd never met
SHE IS: Lysandra — his brother's abandoned daughter
ENDS: Young again, and taken into Lysandra's family with Aedion

His people

The ones who mattered.

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Nesryn Faliq secondaryNesryn Faliqan allyEnter Nesryn Faliq →

Sartaq secondarySartaqan allyEnter Sartaq →

Yeran secondaryYerancrossed pathsEnter Yeran →

Houlun secondaryHouluncrossed pathsEnter Houlun →

Maeve antagonistMaevehis enemyEnter Maeve →

The one he faced.

The one he faced

The war in the southern skies he took a shifter's shape against.

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Erawan Valg king of MorathErawanHis ilken hunted the khaganate; a shapeshifter's eyes and wings turned against the dark.Enter Erawan →

What he loves

One of the last, finally of use.

His people are all but gone from the world, and the gift they carried didn't go with them.

Becoming anything
A shape for any need — his people's oldest gift.
His own kind
Shapeshifters, nearly gone from the world. He carries what's left.
A use that matters
The gift finally aimed at something worth it: the war.
Scouting unseen
Through lines no soldier in his own face could cross.

His heart

The ones who are gone

Shapeshifters were hunted almost out of existence, and Falkan is one of the handful still standing — the same rare kind as Lysandra. He could have kept the gift hidden and stayed quietly alive. Instead he spent it on a war that needed exactly what only his people could do. If the line ends with him, it ends having mattered.

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