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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.

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 →

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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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