Glennis Crochan

Manon was raised from the cradle to murder Crochans. The ancient Crochan who turns out to be her own blood doesn't run from her — she crowns her.

Glennis Crochan is Manon Blackbeak's great-grandmother and the matriarch of a hidden Crochan camp, from Throne of Glass — keeper of an eternal flame carried out of a burning city, and the one who names the Ironteeth-raised killer Queen of Witches. She is the Crochan side of Manon's grief, the family the Blackbeaks spent a century teaching her to hate.

At a glance

KIND: Crochan witch — ancient matriarch of a hidden camp
TO MANON: Great-grandmother, through her father Tristan Crochan
KEEPS: An eternal hearth-fire from Brannon's own flame, in a glass globe
REVEALS: That the White Demon is half-Crochan by blood
TEACHES: The Flame of War — how a queen musters every scattered witch
WHEN ATTACKED: Takes up a sword against the three Ironteeth Matrons
REFUSES: Rhiannon's crown of stars — and crowns Manon instead
NAMES MANON: Queen of Witches, uniting Ironteeth and Crochan

Her people

The ones who mattered.

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The ones she faced.

The ones she faced

The last Crochan crone, keeper of a people all but ended.

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What she loves

Crochan crone-queen

The crone-queen of the Crochans, and the great-grandmother who saw in Manon the end of five hundred years.

The Crochan people
Her scattered, hunted people — the red-cloaked witches driven to the edges of the world, and still hers to gather.
Home, and the curse's end
Five centuries of exile, and the one dream underneath all of it: to break the curse and go home.
Manon
The half-Crochan heir — the one who could end what no Crochan alone ever could.
The old witch-magic
The true magic of the Crochans — the kind the Ironteeth spent five hundred years trying to end.

Her heart

Manon

Glennis loved her people and the dream of home long before she met the girl — but Manon is where those loves meet. Half Crochan, half Ironteeth, and the heir the long centuries had been waiting for: in her great-granddaughter, Glennis sees the curse broken and the Crochans walking home at last. She guides; she does not command.

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