man i love prequels that make me want to eat glass when i reread the other books
(glorian shieldheart, so revered as the greatest berethnet queen, she who banished fyredel and won the grief of ages, and she was a child. igrain brings her up as reason for sabran to marry a 70 year old man the same way robert pressed glorian to marry guma. both igrain and robert were pushing them into marriages for their own gain. glorian only married him for the fortune he brought.
her daughter sabran XI, technically a bastard the same way sabran the magnificent is. her daughter, who glorian never wanted but still loved with all her heart, who wed a lady of her bedchamber when she abdicated.
the first warlord of seiiki, so mysterious, so strong, so brave, a grieving woman who lost every family member close to her and the woman she loved. a grieving woman who was determined to avenge everyone she lost. a grieving woman who rose from the ashes of her father determined to be better.
marosa, who wanted to get out so badly, only to have her wings clipped. only for the man she loved to be killed before she could even tell him that he was right, and she never betrayed him.)
