The Matron
Everything the reader loves Manon for surviving — the cruelty, the iron, the White Demon — this is the woman who built it into her on purpose.
The Blackbeak Matron is Manon's grandmother and the head of the Blackbeak witch-clan, from Throne of Glass — the architect of Manon's cruelty, who murdered her own daughter at Manon's birth, buried the girl's Crochan blood for a century, and rules by fear alone. She is the villain who is family, which is the worst kind there is.
At a glance
- KIND
- Ironteeth witch — Matron of the Blackbeak Clan
- TO MANON
- Grandmother — and the maker of her cruelty
- KILLED
- Her own daughter, Lothian, at Manon's birth
- HID
- The murder, and Manon's half-Crochan blood, for a century
- RULES BY
- Fear and absolute obedience
- SANCTIONED
- The Valg breeding of witchlings at Morath
- HER WEAPON
- Retractable iron nails — she guts Manon with them
- DIED
- Under Asterin Blackbeak's Yielding at Orynth
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