Heir of the Yellowlegs

Iskra Yellowlegs

Every other Ironteeth in this story gets the moment that reframes them. She never gets one, and she never earns one.

Everyone else in this story gets cracked open. She never does.

Iskra Yellowlegs is heir to the Yellowlegs Witch-Clan and Manon Blackbeak's rival in the Ironteeth host, from Throne of Glass. She wants Wing Leader, she doesn't get it, and she spends four books making other people pay for that. There is no layer underneath. That isn't a gap in the writing — it's the entire point of her.

At a glance

Clan: Yellowlegs — one of the three Ironteeth witch-clans
Rank: Heir to the Yellowlegs Clan. Commanded the Yellowlegs covens for Morath
First appears: Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3)
Stationed: The Omega — the Ironteeth war camp in the Ferian Gap
Mount: Fendir, a bull wyvern
Rival: Manon Blackbeak, Wing Leader of the Ironteeth host
Iron: Teeth and nails on permanent display — Yellowlegs clan rule
Killed: By Petrah Blueblood at the Battle of Orynth — four books after Keelie

Her people

Who stood against her.

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

Asterin Blackbeak Second of the ThirteenAsterin Blackbeakher enemyEnter Asterin Blackbeak →

Her reckoning.

Her reckoning

A rival Wing Leader; the blood-feud ended at Orynth.

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Manon Blackbeak The rival who ended itManon BlackbeakRival Wing Leaders bound by a blood-feud — it ended at Orynth, where Manon's side put her down.Enter Manon Blackbeak →

What she covets

To win, and to watch Manon lose.

She had every advantage and reached for cruelty anyway — because she liked it.

The win
First, always, and by whatever it costs someone else.
Yellowlegs above all
Her clan on top, and the Blackbeaks made to feel it.
Manon, beaten
Not just defeated — humiliated, in front of everyone who mattered.
Cruelty, rewarded
The pleasure of it, and a world that hands out prizes for it.

What she wants

To be the one who wins

She wasn't broken into cruelty — she chose it. What she wants is the win, the clan's dominance, and Manon's face when she takes both. The meanness isn't strategy. It's the point.

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