The Ever King

Content Warning: This section of the guide contains depictions of child abuse, imprisonment, parental neglect, abuse, torture, and murder.

Livia Ferus, an earth fae, is one of the main characters and one of the novel’s two first-person narrators. She is the daughter of Valen Ferus and Elise Lysander, the king and queen of the Night Folk clans in the Northern Kingdom, and as such, Livia is also the princess-heir to their kingdom. She has a younger brother named Rorik. As a child, she grew up with other earth fae royalty such as the twins Jonas and Sander Eriksson and Krasmira “Mira” Sekundär. Along with her cousin, Aleksi (or Alek), this core group of friends looks after each another. During the war between the earth and sea fae, a young Livia encountered a young Erik, who was being held captive by her father. However, instead of hating the princeling, Livia was intrigued by Erik and secretly read to him a revised version of the serpent and songbird tale, which she had written herself. During their last encounter, Erik told her to keep the gold mantle, or talisman, which belonged to his father, and he promised to come back for it.