Cain
The biggest man in the room, the surest bet in the castle — and he still had to butcher dead men to almost beat a poisoned girl.
Cain is a soldier of the King of Adarlan and Celaena Sardothien's rival in the contest to become the King's Champion, from Throne of Glass — a mountain-born giant who used Wyrdmarks and an obsidian ring to butcher his fellow competitors for power. He is the reader's first look at the Valg, a whole year before anyone learns the name.
At a glance
- KIND
- Human soldier — from the White Fang Mountains, freefolk-descended
- SPONSOR
- Duke Perrington
- IN THE CONTEST
- Celaena Sardothien's chief rival for King's Champion
- HIS METHOD
- Wyrdmarks, an obsidian ring, and a summoned ridderak
- SECRET
- Valg-empowered — the first the series shows the reader
- ALMOST
- Beat a bloodbane-poisoned Celaena in the final duel
- UNDONE BY
- Elena, who ripped the demon out of him
- KILLED BY
- Chaol Westfall — Chaol's first kill
His people
Who stood against him.
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