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A Court of Thorns and Roses — overview
The Books & Reading Order
A Court of Splintered Harmony · Book 6
Prythian · the Realm
Night CourtSpring CourtSummer CourtAutumn CourtWinter CourtDawn CourtDay CourtUnder the Mountain
Characters
Inner CircleRhysandFeyreCassianAzrielMorriganAmrenNestaElain
High Lords & CourtsTamlinLucienHelionTarquinKalliasThesanBeronEris VanserraViviane
Allies & OthersGwynEmerieJurianVassaVarianCresseidaKeirMother
Villains & AncientsAmaranthaKing of HybernKoscheiStrygaThe SurielThe Bone CarverBryaxis
All characters →
Places
Prythian · the realm
The Night CourtEnter The Night Court →VelarisThe House of WindHewn CityWindhavenThe SidraRamielThe PrisonIllyria
The Spring CourtEnter The Spring Court →Spring Court ManorSangravah
The Summer CourtEnter The Summer Court →Adriata
The Autumn CourtThe Winter CourtThe Dawn CourtThe Day Court
Beyond PrythianThe WallMortal LandsUnder the MountainHybern
Lore & Relics
PowersDaematiDeath-magicFire-magicShadowsingerShape-shiftingWinnowing
RelicsThe CauldronTruth-TellerThe MaskThe CrownThe HarpThe Dread Trove
Events & OrdersThe Blood RiteThe First WarThe War with HybernThe Inner CircleThe Valkyries
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Gwyn Berdara

Priestess · Founding Valkyrie · The Night Court

Gwyn Berdara

“I am the rock against which the surf crashes. Nothing can break me.”

Gwyn, at the ribbon · A Court of Silver Flames

She wouldn't leave the library. Then she cut the ribbon first.

Priestess in the library under the House of Wind. Three-quarters High Fae, a quarter river-nymph. She found the Valkyries in a book and then went and became one. Her hair glows when she sings. Of course it does.

At a glance

Eyes
large, clear teal
Hair
rich coppery chestnut, pin-straight
Marked
freckles across her nose and cheeks
Blood
three-quarters High Fae, one-quarter river-nymph
Home
the library beneath the House of Wind
Works for
Merrill, the scholar
Sisters
Nesta and Emerie, the Valkyries
Bracelet
white, teal and blue, picked by Nesta

Her people

The ones who drew her out, and the one she lost.

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Lady DeathNesta ArcheronSwapped the volumes. Picked her colours. Knocked her out to save her.Enter Nesta Archeron →
Valkyrie · CarynthianEmerieCut the ribbon after her. Carried her up Ramiel.Enter Emerie →
The ShadowsingerAzrielReached her at Sangravah. Left a box at Clotho's desk.Enter Azriel →
Her twinCatrin BerdaraBeheaded in front of her. The bracelets started with her.Enter Catrin Berdara →
The scholar she works forMerrillBrilliant. Horrible. Writing the Valkyries' history.Enter Merrill →
High priestess of the libraryClothoRuns the library she hid in.Enter Clotho →
The templeSangravahWhere she was born, and what Hybern did there.Enter Sangravah →
Beneath the House of WindThe LibraryTwo years without leaving it.Enter The Library →
The orderThe ValkyriesShe found them in the stacks and brought them back.Enter The Valkyries →
Illyria's trialThe Blood RiteAn arrow in the thigh, and the stone at the top.Enter The Blood Rite →

Also in the story

Connected

The mountain, and the warrior it remembers.

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RamielThe summit she reachedEnter Ramiel →
EnaliusThe Pass Nesta held for herEnter Enalius →

What she loves

Music first.

  • Singing

    The dusk services were her favourite part of Sangravah, and when she sings her hair and skin give off a light. Nesta noticed before anyone said it.

  • Books

    What Merrill writes, mostly, and adventures. Then Nesta and Emerie lent her the other kind. She read them.

  • Bracelets

    Thread and little charms full of wishes. The wish comes true when the bracelet falls off. She learned it with her sister.

  • Her sisters

    Nesta and Emerie. She would have died beside Nesta on the bridge rather than be carried off it. Nesta didn't give her the choice.

The long versionRead her whole storyEverything, in one place.Enter the full story
House of Wind The Library Below House of WindShe came to the library with almost nothing left, after Sangravah, and the stacks took her in without asking why. Down beneath the House of Wind she shelved and sorted and stayed quiet, learned the priestesses' calm, let the mountain hold her. She healed there. And when a voice came back to her, it turned out to be a weapon.Enter House of Wind

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