A Court of Thorns and Roses

Feyre finds Alis, who explains everything: Amarantha is the King of Hybern’s most lethal general. During the ancient war between faeries and humans, Amarantha’s sister Clythia was betrayed and murdered by Clythia’s human lover, Jurian. After the treaty, Amarantha killed her human slaves instead of freeing them. Amarantha arrived in Prythian 100 years ago as the King of Hybern’s emissary but decided to conquer Prythian for herself. Amarantha held a ball where she poisoned the seven High Lords of Prythian and stole their powers. Amarantha is the blight on magic, and she keeps court Under the Mountain, a formerly sacred place. Amarantha lusts after Tamlin, whose family was allied with Hybern in the ancient war against humans. Tamlin sent Lucien to negotiate with Amarantha, but Amarantha took Lucien’s eye. She held a masquerade in apology, promising peace if Tamlin agreed to be her lover. Tamlin refused, declaring he would sooner take a human lover and that even Clythia “preferred a human’s company to [Amarantha’s]” (282). Amarantha put a curse on Tamlin: Unless he convinced a human woman to marry him within 49 years, she would claim him as her consort.