![]() ![]() She dances with Dorian instead.Īfterward, he meets her in her quarters, and they kiss several times. She asks Chaol to dance, but he refuses because Duke Perrington, who knows Celaena’s identity, is watching and would disapprove. Celaena’s relationships with Chaol and Dorian change because both develop romantic feelings for her.Ĭelaena shows up uninvited to a royal ball. Kaltain sees Celaena as a threat to her plans to marry the prince. They both feel like outsiders, and both are from nations that have been conquered by Adarlan.Ĭelaena also makes an enemy out of Kaltain, a beautiful noblewoman who is romantically interested in Dorian. While living and training in the palace, Celaena makes a new friend, Nehemia, princess of Eyllwe, a nation that has been conquered by Adarlan. The next day, Celaena searches the mausoleum to look for clues. Elena tells Celaena that she must find and destroy the evil in the castle, and she must win the competition.Įlena gives Celaena an amulet to wear for protection, an amulet that she holds after she wakes up. Something evil dwells in the castle and must be destroyed before a portal is ripped open and cannot be closed. In the dream, Elena appears to Celaena and explains that the king’s clock tower in the castle gardens serves as a portal between worlds. In the dream, one passage leads her to the mausoleum of Adarlan’s first king and queen: Gavin and Elena. While she finds a possible escape route out of the castle, she doesn’t fully explore the passages but has a dream about them when she returns to her room and falls asleep. One night, Celaena feels a draft in her room and finds a secret passage leading down to crypts beneath the castle. Once she has an unsettling dream, she decides to investigate the murders. Also, symbols known as Wyrd marks are written in blood around each body.Ĭelaena is alarmed by the killings. Competitors are murdered their bodies ripped open and internal organs removed. She successfully holds back until she feels compelled to save the life of a fellow competitor during a challenge after he is sabotaged.Īs the competition progresses, strange things begin happening in the castle. Much to her chagrin, Chaol orders Celaena to have mediocre performances during the competition to save her best efforts for the end. To regain her skill and strength, Celaena pushes herself through Chaol’s vigorous training regimen. The competition consists of various contests, with the poorest performers being eliminated and sent back to the prison they were taken from. Duke Perrington, the king’s closest adviser, is Cain’s sponsor. Over the course of 13 weeks, she must compete against these men, and while she doesn’t consider most of them a threat to her victory, Cain, a massive and brutal man, is the exception. She is given spacious rooms and outfitted with beautiful clothing appropriate to the person she is pretending to be: Lady Lillian Gordaina, a noblewoman and jewel thief.Ĭelaena is one of 24 competitors - made up of criminals, thieves, assassins and murderers -all sponsored by noblemen in the king’s court. ![]() She will be competing against other assassins and criminals, so she knows she must regain her strength and skill.ĭue to her notoriety and reputation, Chaol and Dorian decide that no one should know Celaena’s identity. Prior to imprisonment, Celaena’s life as an assassin afforded her luxurious clothing and rich food, things that she wants to go back to. While Celaena despises the king, a tyrant who has banished magic, conquered kingdoms throughout the land and enslaved countless people, she accepts the proposal as it offers her a way out of the slave camp and freedom.Ī year in the slave camp has left Celaena malnourished, scarred, weak and haggard. If Celaena wins, she must work for the king for four years as his champion, his assassin afterward she will have her freedom. The king is holding a competition to choose a champion, and Dorian wants Celaena to be his candidate. Celaena, trained to be an assassin since she was 10, was one of Adarlan’s most effective assassins before she was caught and sentenced to the slave camps by the king.Ĭhaol presents Celaena to Dorian Havilliard, Crown Prince of Adarlan, who has a proposal for her. Chaol Westfall, captain of the Royal Guard, retrieves her. ![]() For the past year, 18-year-old Celaena Sardothien has been imprisoned in a slave camp. ![]()
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