The Mortal Lands · A ruined merchant who died a soldier
Feyre's Father
The father who couldn't save them. Until, right at the end, he could.
A wealthy merchant ruined into poverty and lameness, who let his daughters sink into hunger in a cottage at the edge of the wood. Then he crossed the sea, raised a mortal army, and brought it north to die for them. We see what he did at the end. We're not over it.
The mortal lands · A man emptied out
The father in the cottage.
A merchant once. Ships, a fine house, the whole thing — until the creditors came, the fortune collapsed, and they shattered his leg on the way out. After that it was the fire and the little carved wooden figures while three daughters went hungry, and a youngest who picked up a bow because someone had to. We met him through Feyre's resentment, and that's the thing we never quite forgive him for: not the lameness, the idleness. The will to stand up and feed them had just gone out of him. She kept him alive anyway. We clocked that.
The turn · Ships and a late courage
What the sea gave back.
With Feyre gone into Prythian, he finally did the thing he'd failed to do for years — he stood up. Took to the sea, rebuilt the fortune, made himself a man of standing among the mortals again. And when the war came, he didn't hide behind the recovered wealth. He sailed the Continent, gathered ships and soldiers and the backing of mortal rulers, and raised a human army to march north against a power that could have wiped them out without trying. The chair-bound father. Raising an army. We didn't see it coming either.
The last act · A debt repaid in full
The death that redeemed the chair.
He brought his mortal host to the final battle against Hybern, and there — defending the daughters he'd once been unable to feed — the King of Hybern killed him. And it lands so hard precisely because of everything before it: the man who couldn't rise from his fire died on his feet, leading, having crossed an ocean to be worth the children who saved him first. Small, human, late, and it costs him his life. Which is the whole point. We're not okay about it.
Bound to
The threads of the merchant's house
Swipe to meet them all
The File
- Station
- Once a wealthy merchant; ruined into poverty
- Family
- Father of Nesta, Elain and Feyre Archeron
- Wound
- A leg shattered by his creditors; left him lame
- Turn
- Rebuilt his fortune by sea while Feyre was in Prythian
- Last act
- Raised a mortal army and led it against Hybern
- Death
- Killed in the war with Hybern — by the King of Hybern himself
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