The Illyrian Blade · A Valkyrie
Emerie
“My wings were clipped.”
Emerie · A Court of Silver Flames
Clipped wings. Unbroken spine.
The Windhaven shopkeeper who became the first Illyrian female to walk the Blood Rite — and walk back out a Carynthian.
At a glance
The shape of her.
Where she comes from
She survived the house she was born in.
Illyrian, raised in Windhaven under a father who clipped her wings and worse. He's dead now; the shop is hers. She runs it with her sleeves rolled — the rare Illyrian female who owns her own trade.
What she became
They threw three women into the Rite. Two summited.
When traditionalist males drugged and dumped Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie into the Blood Rite to teach them a lesson, she climbed Ramiel on a body that couldn't fly and touched the sacred stone — the first Illyrian female ever named Carynthian.
What she loves
The life she built in spite of them.
Her shop
The Windhaven clothier — leather, wool, steel. Her father's once. Hers now, and run better.
Romance novels
The book club with Nesta and Gwyn. Smut, swapped and devoured, no apologies.
Her sisters-in-arms
Nesta and Gwyn — the Valkyries. The first people who were ever truly hers.
Her people
The sisterhood she fought beside.
Her arc · Out of Windhaven
They clipped her wings. She climbed the mountain anyway.
The Shop
Cassian walks into a Windhaven clothier and meets the female who runs it. The first thread.
The Friend
Nesta comes in for warmer leathers. Two prickly women recognise each other.
The Training
She joins the House of Wind trainees — clipped wings and all — and runs her business between sessions.
The Blood Rite
Drugged and dumped on Ramiel with Nesta and Gwyn. They fight through as one.
Carynthian
She touches the stone at the summit. The first Illyrian female in history to earn the name.
— On the mountain —
“There is no debt, Nesta.”
Emerie, at the Pass of Enalius · ACOSF
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Nesta →The friend who threw her a rope, then held the line so she could climb.
Gwyn → The Valkyries → The Night Court →