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The Cauldron

The Primordial Source · Made, Unmade, Remade

The Cauldron

Made, unmade, remade.

Before the High Fae, before man, there was a Cauldron — and the world was poured out of it.

A bottomless bowl of black iron that Made everything and can unmake it just as easily. Womb of Prythian and its worst weapon, same vessel. It does not care which.

At a glance

Kind
Deity / primordial object of creation
Form
A vast bowl of darkest iron, deep enough to bathe in — and bottomless
Power
Making, Unmaking, Remaking; world-forging; raising the dead; razing the Wall
Will
Near-sentient — 'Not sentient, but… it knew. It was furious.'
Wielded by
The King of Hybern (weapon); Feyre (Remaker)
Counterpart
The Book of Breathings — forged from its own molten ore
Fate
Shattered, Remade by Feyre, hidden away with Miryam and Drakon

Bonds & wielders

The ones it Made, and the ones who used it

Swipe to meet them all

Tore a kernel of its power — Death — from it during her Making; the Cauldron knows, and could use her as a puppetNesta ArcheronBound by theftEnter Nesta Archeron →
Made High Fae by it; later absorbed into the breach and forged it anewFeyre ArcheronMade & RemakerEnter Feyre Archeron →
Made High Fae and emerged a Seer — trapped like a bird in a cageElain ArcheronMadeEnter Elain Archeron →
Restored its feet and used it as a weapon — raising Jurian, Making the sisters, shattering the WallThe King of HybernWielderEnter The King of Hybern →
Cracked the Book's code; her unbinding ruptured the CauldronAmrenIts breakerEnter Amren →
Narrates its origin to Feyre and Rhys — 'before the High Fae, before man, there was a Cauldron'The Bone CarverLore-keeperEnter The Bone Carver →
The Motherher defining pairingEnter The Mother →

What it wants

It has no allegiance but to itself

  • Wholeness

    Whole only on all three feet — and still hunting the kernel of itself Nesta tore away.

  • Payment

    It takes what it's owed. A mortal queen wanted immortality and left a withered crone.

  • The refrain

    Made, unmade, remade. The only thing it ever says, and the cycle it always comes back to.

The long versionRead the full storyEverything, in one place.Enter the full story

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