Duke Perrington

For six books the Duke was the King's brutish, red-faced right hand. There was no Duke — there hadn't been for decades.

Duke Perrington is the Duke of Morath and the King of Adarlan's cousin and chief ally in Throne of Glass — outwardly a cold, power-hungry general. He is the hollowed-out disguise of the Valg King Erawan, worn until it wears out.

At a glance

KIND: A Valg King, wearing a human Duke
SEAT: Morath
POSED AS: Duke of Morath, the King of Adarlan's cousin and chief ally
TRUE NAME: Erawan, youngest of the three Valg Kings
WANTS: All three Wyrdkeys — to open the Wyrdgate and flood Erilea
BUILT: The Valg breeding program; the mirror war-towers
DIED: Pinned by Damaris, burned out by Yrene and Dorian
CALLED: The Dark King

His people

The ones who mattered.

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Dorian Havilliard Crown Prince · King of AdarlanDorian Havilliardhis cousinEnter Dorian Havilliard →

What he covets

Everything the thing beneath him wants.

There is no Perrington to want anything — only the king wearing his face.

Adarlan's power
The empire's reach, held through a borrowed name.
Morath's rise
A fortress turned forge, breeding the horrors to come.
The disguise
A man's skin, worn long enough that no one looked underneath.
Erawan's dominion
The same as his master's — because he is his master.

What he wants

What wears the man

Perrington is a mask, and the thing behind it is a Valg king. What he wants of Adarlan and Morath is only the near edge of what Erawan wants of everything. The Duke was never the point.

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His war-forge MorathA duke's fortress in the mountains that stopped being only a fortress — the walls rising higher, the forges burning deeper, an army taking shape for a war no one had declared. And the lord who raised it was already more mask than man, the thing beneath his skin quietly building its own dark future, stone by stone.Enter Morath

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