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Arobynn Hamel

Arobynn Hamel

He found a half-frozen eight-year-old by a river and did not save her. He kept her.

Arobynn Hamel is the King of the Assassins of Rifthold in Throne of Glass — the man who found the orphaned Aelin Galathynius in the snow and rebuilt her into Celaena Sardothien. He called it love. It was the most complete act of ownership in the series.

At a glance

KIND
Human — King of the Assassins of Rifthold
RAN
The Assassins' Guild
MADE
Celaena Sardothien, out of the orphaned Aelin
TOOK
The Amulet of Orynth — a Wyrdkey — off her dying body
KILLED
Sam Cortland; Wesley
DIED
Throat cut by Lysandra, with his own pillow-knife
AFTER
Aelin beheaded the corpse and inherited everything
CALLED
The King of the Assassins

His people

The ones who mattered.

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Pirate Lord of Skull's BayRolfecrossed pathsEnter Rolfe →

The one who ended it.

His reckoning

He owned her once. In the end, she was the one who buried him.

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The girl he made and cagedCelaena SardothienEngineered his death by Lysandra's hand — her design — then beheaded the body to be sure.Enter Celaena Sardothien →

What he covets

The girl he made, and the debt that never clears.

He calls it love; it was ownership with better manners.

  • Celaena, his masterpiece

    Sharpened, broken, rebuilt to his hand — and never once allowed to be her own.

  • The debt

    He would forgive anything and forget nothing, so the account stayed open forever.

  • Everyone in his orbit

    Loyalty bought, extracted, or beaten in — whichever held.

  • The guild

    The Assassins' Keep, and the throne of it, kept his.

What he wants

To own what he made

He took a child and forged a weapon, then spent the rest of his life insisting she was still his. Not a daughter, not a lover — a possession he'd broken enough times to trust. The cruelty was the craft.

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