One of the Loyal · A death-lord of the Prison

Lanthys

“A male of terrible, storm-pale beauty — wind and ruin given a face, and the will to unmake any who looked too long.”

The Library · on Lanthys, A Court of Silver Flames

What the Harp let out of the dark.

One of the Loyal — an ancient death-lord who held power before there were High Lords, sealed in the deepest dark of the Prison. Nesta sounded the Harp. He woke. It nearly cost her and Cassian everything. We knew that note was a mistake.

The Loyal

Older than the High Lords. Worse, too.

He's one of the Loyal — held power before the High Lords ever took their thrones. A death-lord, storm-pale and ruinous and beautiful in the way that makes you stop breathing right before it kills you. So the world did the sensible thing and buried him in the Prison. Not a cell of simple stone. The place where the oldest, worst things get sealed away so the rest of us can carry on. He was quiet down there a very long time. He was just waiting for a sound.

What the music let loose

The Harp does not ask whose hand plays it.

Nesta took the Harp down into the dark not knowing some instruments open more than doors. The notes unsealed Lanthys, and he rose wreathed in wind and ruin — beautiful enough to stop the breath, hungry enough to kill. He nearly took both her and Cassian. What turned him was the Trove itself: Nesta raised the dead against him with the Mask and winnowed them clear with the Harp, driving him back into the Prison. He's the proof of what the Dread Trove costs. Power this old is never given gently. Only borrowed against the dark.

Bound to

The threads that lead back to the dark.

Swipe to meet them all

The Harp What freed himThe HarpIts music unsealed Lanthys within the PrisonEnter The Harp →

The Prison What held himThe PrisonHis cell since before the High LordsEnter The Prison →

Nesta Archeron Who drove him backNesta ArcheronSounded the Harp that woke him — and used the Trove to force him backEnter Nesta Archeron →

The Dread Trove The costThe Dread TroveThe Harp and the Mask are two of its three relicsEnter The Dread Trove →

Cassian Nearly killedCassianAt Nesta's side when Lanthys roseEnter Cassian →

Bryaxis Fellow ancientBryaxisAnother old terror the Night Court has heldEnter Bryaxis →

The File

Nature: Ancient death-lord · one of the Loyal
Held by: The Prison — sealed in its deepest dark
Freed by: The Harp, sounded by Nesta within the Prison
Power: Storm and wind · terrible beauty that bends the will
Driven back: Forced into the Prison again by Nesta, using the Mask and the Harp

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