Galan Ashryver

Aelin was sent across the sea to assassinate him. Years later she wrote him three furious lines, and he brought a whole armada.

Galan Ashryver is the Crown Prince of Wendlyn and Aelin's first cousin, from Heir of Fire and Empire of Storms — beloved by his people, leading Wendlyn's war on Adarlan, and marked like Aelin and Aedion by the turquoise-and-gold Ashryver eyes that run down from the Fae queen Mab.

At a glance

KIND: Fae-blooded — Crown Prince of Wendlyn
TO AELIN: First cousin, through House Ashryver
EYES: Turquoise with cores of gold — Mab's line, like Aelin and Aedion
ONCE: The royal she was sent to Wendlyn to assassinate
CALLED BY: Three furious lines from Aelin, calling in an old debt
BROUGHT: Wendlyn's armada, at the war's most desperate hour
IN BATTLE: A calm, smiling commander beside Ansel of Briarcliff
FRAMES IT AS: A debt long owed — and gladly paid

His people

The ones who mattered.

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Aelin Galathynius Queen of Terrasen · Heir of FireAelin Galathyniushis cousinEnter Aelin Galathynius →

Aedion Ashryver The Wolf of the North · General of TerrasenAedion Ashryverhis cousinEnter Aedion Ashryver →

The one they faced.

The one they faced

The years of occupation, and the crown they never bowed to.

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King of Adarlan The conquest they resistedKing of AdarlanHe took the north and held it; they spent their lives keeping it from ever being wholly his.Enter King of Adarlan →

What he loves

Crown Prince of Wendlyn

Aelin's cousin across the sea — the one who answered a call from a family he'd never laid eyes on.

Wendlyn
The kingdom he'll inherit, and the fleet he'd command into the war.
Honor
Enough of it to sail for a cause that wasn't, strictly speaking, his own.
The alliance
He brought the Wendlyn fleet when the war needed ships it did not have.
The cousin he'd never met
He crossed an ocean to fight for blood he knew only by name.

His heart

The family across the sea

He'd never once seen his Terrasen cousin, and he sailed anyway. The Wendlyn fleet arrived because Galan decided that honor and blood reached the whole way across the water. Family you've never met is still family worth crossing an ocean for — and he made the crossing.

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