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Imogen Blackbeak

Of the Thirteen · The First to Fall

Imogen Blackbeak

The books never tell us who she was. She went first anyway.

Of the Thirteen. Dorian noticed that she kept to herself and smiled at nobody. Nobody went into the Yielding ahead of her.

On sight

What she looks like

Hair
Light brown.
Skin
Pale.
Eyes
Black flecked with gold — her most telling feature.
Born a weapon
Sharp, retractable iron teeth and iron nails — Ironteeth to the bone. She doesn't carry a weapon; she is one.

Her palette

  • light brown
  • pale
  • gold
  • iron

What we actually get

Here is the complete file. She is one of the Thirteen, she rides with the Blackbeak host, and Dorian Havilliard — passing through, noticing things the way he does — clocks that she keeps to herself and does not smile at anyone. That is the lot. No chapter of her own, no backstory, no scene that is hers. Fearless and loyal to Manon is as far as the description goes, because that is as far as the books go.

Rank and file of the deadliest coven alive

The Thirteen were raised together from witchlings, trained together and aged together into the most disciplined coven the Ironteeth ever produced. Imogen is one of the ten below the top three — no rank, no command, and still one of the most dangerous witches on the continent, still flying the formation that won the War Games, still one of thirteen who would eventually all choose the same thing on the same afternoon. Being unwritten is not the same as being minor.

First

At Orynth, with Abraxos hurt and Manon put out of the way so she cannot stop them, the Thirteen fly at the last witch tower. Somebody has to go first. A Yielding is a one-time detonation of everything a witch is, and going first means going before there is any evidence at all that it will be enough — no tower coming down yet, no proof, nothing to work from except eleven witches behind her who have already decided to follow. Imogen went first. Then Lin, then Ghislaine, then all of them.

Her people

The coven.

Swipe to meet them all

Manon's Coven · IronteethThe Thirteenher covenEnter The Thirteen →
Wing Leader · Heir of the Blackbeak Witch-ClanManon Blackbeakher Wing LeaderEnter Manon Blackbeak →
Second of the ThirteenAsterin Blackbeakthe SecondEnter Asterin Blackbeak →
Third of the ThirteenSorrelthe ThirdEnter Sorrel →
Of the Thirteen · Second to FallLinYielded just after herEnter Lin →
Of the ThirteenVestaof the ThirteenEnter Vesta →

The ones they faced.

The ones they faced

Two we never forgave. One in the sky, one in our own blood.

Swipe to meet them all

Yellowlegs Wing LeaderIskra YellowlegsA blood-feud in the air. She came for us with sabotage and iron; we closed ranks and answered.Enter Iskra Yellowlegs →
The Blackbeak MatronThe MatronShe forged us in cruelty, then turned it on our own — Asterin branded, beaten near to death.Enter The Matron →

What she loves

She holds the line.

Imogen loves the same things every one of the Thirteen loves — she just says less about it.

  • The line

    The place she stands so the sister behind her doesn't have to. She does not step off it.

  • The coven

    Twelve others who'd hold it the same way for her, and have.

  • The Wing Leader

    Manon in front, the sky ahead. That's an order she'll take every time.

  • Her wyvern

    Half a ton of teeth and leather that answers to her and no one else.

Her heart

The Thirteen

Imogen is a sentinel of the most elite coven the Ironteeth ever bred, and the coven is the whole of it. Five centuries of war-breeding left the Blackbeaks with iron teeth, iron nails, and the one thing the cruelty never managed to cut out — each other. When the Thirteen gave the Yielding at Orynth, Imogen was one of the twelve. That is who she loved, and how much.

Of the Thirteen

The least written of them, and the first to go.

  1. Among the Thirteen

    One of Manon's elite coven, riding with the Blackbeak host through the Ferian Gap trials and everything that came after them.

  2. Noticed by Dorian

    He marks that she keeps to herself and smiles at nobody. It is the only direct characterisation she is given in five books.

  3. First to Yield

    With Abraxos hurt and Manon unable to stop them, Imogen goes first at the witch tower — ahead of any proof that the coven's plan would work.

The File

OF
The Thirteen
IN CANON
The least-written of the Thirteen — no POV, no interiority
NOTED BY
Dorian — that she kept to herself and never smiled
DIED
FIRST of the Thirteen, in the Yielding at Orynth

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