Elena Galathynius

History remembers her as the damsel a king saved. She was the warrior who won the war — and the reason it had to be fought all over again.

Elena Galathynius is the first Queen of Adarlan and the daughter of Brannon and the goddess Mala, from Throne of Glass. She sealed the Valg King Erawan a thousand years ago instead of destroying him — and spent every year since paying for the difference.

At a glance

KIND: Half-Fae — daughter of Brannon and Mala Fire-Bringer
TITLE: First Queen of Adarlan
MARRIED: Gavin Havilliard, first King of Adarlan
DID: Sealed Erawan a thousand years ago — could not kill him
CURSED TO: Raise a descendant to forge the Lock she broke
LEFT BEHIND: The Eye of Elena
TO AELIN: Ancestor, guide — and the one who set the whole trap

Her mate Gavin HavilliardGavin was a mortal man with a good sword and no magic, and she loved him past the end of his short life and well past her own. They hunted the Dark Lord together and founded Adarlan together. Everything she did in the thousand years after — the watching, the steering, even the lying — was to finish what they'd started.Enter Gavin Havilliard

Her people

Who stood against her.

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Erawan Valg King · The Thing Under MorathErawanher enemyEnter Erawan →

The one they faced.

The one they faced

Three founders, one Valg king. They sealed what they could not kill.

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Erawan Valg king, cast downErawanThey put him beneath the mountains and sealed the keys beyond reach. It held a thousand years.Enter Erawan →

What she loves

The restless queen

Terrasen's first queen, and the spirit who refused to rest until the dark was beaten a second time.

Gavin
The husband she stood beside against Erawan when the world was young.
The war against the dark
She helped end it once and never stopped watching the horizon for its return.
The heir she'd steer
A thousand years of a restless spirit, guiding one girl toward the ending.
The world, twice over
She'd already saved it once; she'd spend her death making certain of it again.

Her heart

Gavin

They won the first war together, and she never truly let go of him or the fight they'd shared. Long after, her spirit stayed restless — reaching across a thousand years, steering a single descendant toward the victory they'd only begun. Everything she'd loved once, she asked that girl to finish.

The long versionRead her whole storyEverything, in one place.Enter the full story

The kingdom she reigned AdarlanShe reigned as its first queen and never really left — not when they laid her in the tomb beneath the castle, not when the glass rose a thousand years over her bones. Adarlan forgot her. She never forgot it. From under the mountain she kept watch, kept a secret, and steered a girl she'd never meet toward the war she'd left unfinished.Enter Adarlan

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