Ansel of Briarcliff

She drugged the only friend she had and left her to die in the desert — and swore, later, that she did it to save her life.

Ansel of Briarcliff is the exiled princess of the Western Wastes and Celaena Sardothien's friend at the Silent Assassins' keep, in The Assassin's Blade — wine-red hair, a wolf on everything she owns, and a grief she let rot into something that ate her whole.

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KIND: Human — exiled princess of the Western Wastes
HOUSE: Briarcliff — the wolf; the Flatlands, once the Witch Kingdom
AT THE KEEP: Celaena's roommate, guide and friend
BETRAYED: The Silent Assassins to Lord Berick, for an army
FOR: Revenge on the witches; to retake Briarcliff
SPARED BY: Celaena — twenty-one minutes and a chosen miss
BECAME: Queen of the Western Wastes
REPAID IT: Her army, at the Battle of Orynth

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Ansel of Briarcliff

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