The cruel and enormous Cain emerges as Celaena’s primary competitor after he narrowly defeats her in the first Test, which Celaena loses on purpose to hide her true skills. The tournament for Champion consists of a series of Tests followed by a final duel. Celaena meets two young women: the vain and ambitious Kaltain Rompier who schemes to marry Dorian, and the princess Nehemia Ytger, a spy on behalf of her home kingdom of Eyllwe, which is at war with Adarlan.
Chaol Westfall, the young Captain of the Adarlan Guard struggles to trust Celaena, believing her to be a danger to Dorian, but as Dorian becomes infatuated with Celaena, Celaena and Chaol form a tentative friendship as he trains her for the competition. Celaena is living undercover: She is actually Aelin Galathynius, the lost princess of the conquered kingdom of Terrasen, though this is never explicitly revealed in Throne of Glass.Īt Rifthold, Celaena discovers an ominous clock tower surrounded by mysterious runes. Celaena agrees and journeys to the glass castle at Rifthold, Adarlan’s capital, to compete.Ĭelaena despises the royal family because the tyrannical King of Adarlan murdered her family. In return, Celaena will be free after four years of service. Dorian proposes to sponsor Celaena, notorious for assassinating many members of the King’s court before her imprisonment, in order to annoy his father. The King of Adarlan is holding a tournament to determine his Champion-really a personal assassin on retainer-and members of the court have been invited to sponsor competitors. After a year enslaved in the Endovier Salt Mines, teenage assassin Celaena Sardothien is brought before Dorian Havilliard, the Crown Prince of the country of Adarlan.
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