Nehemia Ytger

Sent north to learn manners. Already the only person in the castle who could read the old magic.

Princess of a conquered kingdom, playing the foreign girl who does not speak the language — while quietly running the one form of knowledge Adarlan made a capital crime.

At a glance

KIND: Human — Princess of Eyllwe
SENT: To Rifthold, ostensibly to learn northern customs
KNEW: The Wyrdmarks — outlawed on pain of death
PRETENDED: Not to speak the common tongue. Fluently.
TAUGHT: Celaena to read them, and then to use them
LEFT: Archer Finn's rebels, over what they were prepared to do
KILLED BY: Grave, sent by Archer, in her own chambers
LEAVES BEHIND: The oath sworn over her body, and Adarlan's freed slaves

Her people

Who she chose.

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Celaena Sardothien Adarlan's AssassinCelaena Sardothienthe closest oneEnter Celaena Sardothien →

Ren Allsbrook Lord of Allsbrook · Terrasen's RebelRen Allsbrookan allyEnter Ren Allsbrook →

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

The one she faced.

The one she faced

She left Eyllwe for the court of the man who was killing it.

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King of Adarlan The tyrant who enslaved EyllweKing of AdarlanCalaculla. Endovier. His conquest worked Eyllwe to death, and she came to fight for every soul.Enter King of Adarlan →

What she loves

A court smile on the surface, a rebellion underneath.

She loved like a leader — wholly, and always with her people in mind.

Her little brothers
Home in Eyllwe, small and safe, the reason she never stopped.
The rebellion
Led it in secret from inside the enemy's own castle.
Celaena
She saw the fighter first, and refused to let her sleep.
The old knowledge
Wyrdmarks and history, learned deep and passed to a friend.

Her heart

Her people

Conquered Eyllwe. She wore a diplomat's smile over a rebel's spine — and chose her own death to set the fight alight when nothing else would.

The long versionRead her whole storyEverything, in one place.Enter the full story

Her power

Wyrdmarkwielder

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