Murtaugh Allsbrook

He outlived his whole house but one grandson, and spent his last ten years riding the continent telling people to hold on — she's coming home.

Murtaugh Allsbrook is an aged Terrasen lord and grandfather of Ren, in Throne of Glass — the cautious old strategist who kept a conquered kingdom's rebellion breathing for a decade, and walked out to the wall at Orynth to die for a queen he'd believed in before she knew her own name.

At a glance

KIND: Human — an aged lord of Terrasen
HOUSE: Allsbrook — all but wiped out; only he and Ren left
GRANDSON: Ren Allsbrook
ROLE: The rebellion's cautious strategist — its 'intellectual backbone'
WORKED OUT: The three-tower spell that froze magic
BELIEVED: In Aelin before she knew herself
DIED: On the western wall at the Battle of Orynth
REMEMBERED: A brave, noble, good man

His people

The ones who mattered.

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Aedion Ashryver The Wolf of the North · General of TerrasenAedion Ashryveran allyEnter Aedion Ashryver →

Chaol Westfall Captain of the Royal GuardChaol Westfallan allyEnter Chaol Westfall →

The one they faced.

The one they faced

The years of occupation, and the crown they never bowed to.

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King of Adarlan The conquest they resistedKing of AdarlanHe took the north and held it; they spent their lives keeping it from ever being wholly his.Enter King of Adarlan →

What he loves

The loyalist who never quit

An old lord of Terrasen who kept the rebellion breathing through the long years of exile.

Terrasen
The fallen kingdom he never once stopped believing would rise again.
Ren
His grandson, the last of the Allsbrook line, the one he kept alive.
The cause
A rebellion he carried in exile when almost everyone else had let it die.
The rightful queen
He held to the true line of Terrasen long after it seemed lost for good.

His heart

Ren

Everything he did in the years of exile, he did so the last Allsbrook could carry the name forward. He kept the rebellion alive and his grandson alive with it — and in the end he gave his own life for both. Ren goes on because Murtaugh never once let go.

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