Ghislaine

She is the one who explained the Valg to Manon. When the Valg finally walked into the room she was sobbing in a corner, which is the whole trouble with knowing things.

Eldest and cleverest of the Thirteen. Twelve years at a mortal school in Terrasen, and third into the Yielding at Orynth.

At a glance

OF: The Thirteen
KNOWN FOR: Scholarship — twelve languages
FAMILY: Librarians
TOLD THEM: That witches are the offspring of Fae and Valg
DIED: In the Yielding at Orynth

Her people

The coven.

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The Thirteen Manon's Coven · IronteethThe Thirteenher covenEnter The Thirteen →

Manon Blackbeak Wing Leader · Heir of the Blackbeak Witch-ClanManon Blackbeakher Wing LeaderEnter Manon Blackbeak →

Asterin Blackbeak Second of the ThirteenAsterin Blackbeakthe SecondEnter Asterin Blackbeak →

Sorrel Third of the ThirteenSorrelthe ThirdEnter Sorrel →

Lin Of the Thirteen · Second to FallLinYielded just before herEnter Lin →

Thea Of the ThirteenTheaYielded just after herEnter Thea →

The ones they faced.

The ones they faced

Two we never forgave. One in the sky, one in our own blood.

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Iskra Yellowlegs Yellowlegs Wing LeaderIskra YellowlegsA blood-feud in the air. She came for us with sabotage and iron; we closed ranks and answered.Enter Iskra Yellowlegs →

The Matron The Blackbeak MatronThe MatronShe forged us in cruelty, then turned it on our own — Asterin branded, beaten near to death.Enter The Matron →

What she loves

The one who remembers

The scholar of the Thirteen — the witch who reads, thinks, and remembers what everyone else was told to forget.

Knowledge
Books, languages, the old records — she collects them the way the rest of the Thirteen collect kills.
The buried history
The true story of the witches, not the tidy version the Matrons wanted anyone to remember.
The Thirteen
Brilliant was never the same as apart. Her mind is one more blade the coven gets to carry into a fight.
Manon
A Wing Leader who would rather command a witch who thinks than one who only obeys — which is the whole reason it works.

Her heart

The truth worth keeping

The Thirteen were bred to be weapons; Ghislaine made herself the coven's memory instead. She loves the old records, the dead languages, the real history the Matrons buried — because a witch who knows where she came from is a witch who can choose where she is going. When the Thirteen finally chose Terrasen over Erawan, hers was already a mind that knew why it mattered.

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

Her power

The Yieldingwielder

We're Caffeine and Curses. The Library started as my design research — I can't put Manon on a shirt without knowing which way the iron teeth snap — so we keep the notes here where everyone can use them. The pages are fan-made, not official; the licensed designs are in the shop.

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