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Vassa

Queen of Scythia · The Cursed Firebird of Koschei's Lake

Vassa

“I do not know if that is true, but they call him Koschei the Deathless, for he has no death awaiting him. He is truly immortal.”

Vassa, on Koschei — ACOSF

A mortal queen who burns through the sky by day and walks as a woman by night — sold by her own kind to a death-lord, on borrowed time until she's free.

Youngest of the Mortal Queens, bound in firebird form by a spell woven into her blood, and a leader-in-waiting of the human lands beyond Prythian. We'd follow her.

At a glance

Title
Queen of Scythia — youngest of the Mortal Queens
Curse
Firebird by day, woman by night — woven into her blood by Koschei
Power
Firebird fire — incinerates armies and ships in flight
Look
Red-gold hair cut to the shoulder, golden skin, large up-tilted cobalt-blue eyes
Allegiance
The Band of Exiles — with Lucien Vanserra and Jurian, in the Mortal Lands
Prison
Koschei's lake on the Continent, where she is owed back
Fate
Curse unbroken — free only on borrowed, revocable time

Her circle

Bonds and cages

Swipe to meet them all

Sought her on the quest; anchors the Band of Exiles with herLucien Vanserraally · found familyEnter Lucien Vanserra →
At each other's throats, as they like to be — and bound into her future courtJuriansparring allyEnter Jurian →
The death-lord who cursed and binds her to his lakeKoscheicaptorEnter Koschei →
The Continent lake she is owed back to — anchor of her curseKoschei's LakeprisonEnter Koschei's Lake →
Struck the bargain for her release; a better father, she said, than her ownFeyre's Fatherchosen fatherEnter Feyre's Father →

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Allies, rivals and enemies — the ones this story crossed.

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