Ilias

He almost kissed her at a midsummer festival, and she pulled away thinking of someone else. Years later he crossed a continent with an army to repay the night she saved his life.

Ilias is a Silent Assassin of the Red Desert and the Mute Master's son and heir, in The Assassin's Blade — the disciplined boy who barely noticed anyone until Celaena Sardothien, and the ally her one kindness bought a decade before she needed him.

At a glance

KIND: Human — Silent Assassin of the Red Desert
FATHER: The Mute Master, leader of the order
TRAINED: The meditative, near-silent killing arts
WANTED: Celaena — she chose Sam's memory
SAVED BY: Celaena, who bound his wound with her tunic
REPAID IT: Leading the Silent Assassins to Aelin's war
FIGHTS: Under Aedion, at Terrasen
CALLED: Son of the Mute Master

His people

Who stood against him.

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What he loves

A man who says everything he needs to without a word.

The Mute Master's son loves a small handful of things, all of them quiet.

The Mute Master
His father, his teacher, the man he'd follow into any fire.
The desert keep
Heat, silence, and a discipline most people couldn't stand for a day.
The work
A Silent Assassin's patience, learned young and worn easy.
That summer
A visiting assassin worth a rare, easy flirtation.

His heart

The Silent Assassins

The order his father leads and he was born into — a keep of trained killers who chose discipline and quiet over the world's noise. His whole world, and enough.

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