Bronwen Vanora

She had every reason to hate Manon Blackbeak — the Ironteeth killed the cousin she loved like a sister. She is also the one who threw Manon a second sword.

Bronwen Vanora is a Crochan witch and leader of the Vanora hearth clan, from Kingdom of Ash — Manon Blackbeak's distant kin and open enemy, keeper of an ancestor's ancient horn, whose grief for the last Crochan Queen turns, at the end, into the fury that rallies five thousand witches over Orynth.

At a glance

KIND: Crochan witch — leader of the Vanora hearth clan
TO MANON: Distant kin, and open enemy — at first
GRIEVES: Her cousin Rhiannon Crochan, killed by the Ironteeth
KEEPS: The ancient horn of Telyn Vanora, sounded at a kingdom's fall
IN THE DUEL: Threw Manon a second sword against three Matrons
AT ORYNTH: Blew the horn that launched five thousand Crochans
FLIES BY: Broom — the Crochan way, not a wyvern
HER ARC: Centuries of grievance, turned to fury for the right side

Her people

The ones who mattered.

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The ones she faced.

The ones she faced

A Crochan witch, born into a war of extermination.

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What she loves

A Crochan of the late war

Little of her own story survives; what's known of Bronwen Vanora is what she stood for — the Crochan cause, in the war that finally turned.

Her people, the Crochans
One witch among the red cloaks — the scattered kin who never stopped being a people.
Home
The homeland five centuries of exile never made them forget.
The end of the curse
The five-hundred-year curse, and the hope — near enough now to touch — of seeing it broken.
The fragile peace
The new, uneasy truce with the Ironteeth — kin across an old, bloody line.

Her heart

Home

Bronwen Vanora comes to us thin — a name in the Crochan ranks, not a story of her own. So what she loved is what her people loved: the homeland behind five centuries of exile, the curse they carried, and the fragile chance, in the last war, of laying both down. She is one of the many who wanted to go home.

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