hello, I need help because I know I heard or read that feyre destroyed crops in acowar during her revenge against Tamlin. However I don't have the chapter or page number. Do these seem familiar?
Destroying crops:"I sent a trickle of power into the earth." "I let it slither through the land, into the roots of the trees, the plants, the grass. A whisper of decay, of death."
Used Tamlin's money or rather the courts money: "The coffers were drained—thanks to my suggestions for ‘repairs’ and ‘investments.’"
Trade routes with bandits: "I’d made sure bandits knew which roads to watch. Which shipments were worth their time."
Hello! Thanks for your question!
While Feyre does do many things to affect these things behind the scenes, these in particular are not canonical quotes. She does say many things pretty similar, however, when she is fleeing the Spring Court.
These seem more like fanfic to me. Just double-checked my Kindle, and no, they are not quotes from the series.
However, this is all in Chapter of ACOWAR Ch 9:
"I’d brought three packs, but I’d only need one. The one I’d carefully repacked with Alis’s new supplies, now tucked beside everything I’d anticipated needing to get clear of them and go. The one I’d brought with me on every trip out to the wall, just in case. And now … I had numbers, I had a purpose, I had a specific location, and the names of foreign territories. But more than that, I had a people who had lost faith in their High Priestess. I had sentries who were beginning to rebel against their High Lord. And as a result of those things, I had Hybern royals doubting the strength of their allies here.
I’d primed this court to fall. Not from outside forces—but its own internal warring. And I had to be clear of it before it happened. Before the last sliver of my plan fell into place. The party would return without me. And to maintain that illusion of strength, Tamlin and Ianthe would lie about it—where I’d gone. And perhaps a day or two after that, one of these sentries would reveal the news, a carefully sprung trap that I’d coiled into his mind like one of my snares. I’d fled for my life—after being nearly killed by the Hybern prince and princess. I’d planted images in his head of my brutalized body, the markings consistent with what Dagdan and Brannagh had already revealed to be their style. He’d describe them in detail—describe how he helped me get away before it was too late. How I ran for my life when Tamlin and Ianthe refused to intervene, to risk their alliance with Hybern.
And when the sentry revealed the truth, no longer able to stomach keeping quiet when he saw how my sorry fate was concealed by Tamlin and Ianthe, just as Tamlin had sided with Ianthe the day he’d flogged that sentry … (Which she admitted earlier to setting up and coiling in the sentry and Ianthes mind too) When he described what Hybern had done to me, their Cursebreaker, their newly anointed Cauldron-blessed, before I’d fled for my life … There would be no further alliance. For there would be no sentry or denizen of this court who would stand with Tamlin or Ianthe after this. After me." -ACOWAR CH 9
So this is Feyre fully admitting everything she had done in Spring was to turn everyone against each other and Tamlin. Then she lied about Tamlin watching get attacked.
And this is later after she and Lucien kill the twins, same chapter:
"I merely looked at Ianthe, my power guttering, a hideous ache building in my gut, and made my last command, amending my earlier ones. “You tell them I killed them. In self-defense. After they hurt me so badly while you and Tamlin did nothing. Even when they torture you for the truth, you say that I fled after I killed them—to save this court from their horrors.”
This is fucking disgusting. And she REPEATS how she is going to have them spread rumors thst Tamlin openly watched her get attacked and nearly killed.
ESPECIALLY AFTER HE WAS FORCED TO DO THAT UTM AND IT DESTROYED HIM. HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT WITH A CHOICE.
And the fact that she added in that she was the "savior" of Spring after being the one to rip it open for Hybern is DISGUSTING.
Then in Ch 10 she says THIS GEM:
"I had debated it for weeks: whether it was better to claim the Spring Court for ourselves, or to let it fall to our enemies. But it could not remain neutral—a barrier between our forces in the North and the humans in the South. It would have been easy to call in Rhys and Cassian, to have the latter bring in an Illyrian legion to claim the territory when it was weakest after my own maneuverings. Depending on how much mobility Cassian had retained—if he was still healing. Yet then we’d hold one territory—with five other courts between us. Sympathy might have swayed for the Spring Court; others might have joined Hybern against us, considering our conquest here proof of our wickedness."
SHE IS LITERALLY DEBATING ON CONQUERING PRYTHIAN FOR THE NIGHT COURT!? And she thinks CASSIAN would help her??? Girl, wtf do you think you are even fighting Hybern for!?!?!? Shit. Amren was right when she said Feyre would do it.
THEN in Ch 38, Tarquin calls her out for it!
"Tarquin's face didn't so much as shift from cold wrath. "When you went into the Spring Court and deceived Tamlin as well about your true nature, when you destroyed his territory ... You left the door open for Hybern. They had docked in his harbors." No doubt to wait for the wall to collapse and sail south. Tarquin snarled, "It was an easy trip to my doorstep. You did this."
And during the High Lords meeting, Tamlin was RIGHT about Feyre and Rhys in Ch 44:
"Tamlin at last faced the other gathered High Lords and their retinues. “They peddle tales of defending our land and peace. And yet she came to my lands and laid them bare for Hybern. She took my High Priestess and warped her mind—after she shattered her bones for spite. And if you are asking yourself what happened to that human girl who went Under the Mountain to save us … Look to the male sitting beside her. Ask what he stands to gain—what they stand to gain from this war, or lack of it. Would we fight Hybern, only to find ourselves with a Queen and King of Prythian? She’s proved her ambition—and you saw how he was more than happy to serve Amarantha to remain unscathed.”
YEAH. AND HE WAS RIGHT. ON ALL COUNTS.
Rhys snarled, “If you think for one moment that Feyre would be remotely interested in being High Queen, you’re delusional.” (such an act)
Amren said, “Feyre would see it as a necessary evil. To protect your child from being born into war, she would do what is necessary.” (BC SHE ALREADY HAD)
