With Manon grounded due to injuries sustained by her wyvern Abraxos, the Thirteen chose to incapacitate her and make a charge against the tower and the enemy Ironteeth guarding it. In Orynth, the Thirteen joined a fearsome battle against the armies of Morath, helping to turn the tide until the appearance of a Witch Tower forced them to temporarily retreat. The Crochans crowned her Queen afterward, and on her orders both witch clans flew north to Terrasen to answer Aedion Ashryver's call for aid. The Crochans and the Thirteen were eventually tracked down by the three Ironteeth Matrons in the subsequent battle, Manon killed the Yellowlegs Matron and drove off Cresseida Blueblood and her grandmother. Upon finding the southern Crochans decimated, the Thirteen single-handedly buried all the dead. They then followed the Crochans when they broke camp, flying south to Eyllwe to aid their kin. They carefully assimilated into the camp, making peace with the Crochans until a surprise attack by an Ironteeth scouting party forced them to fight alongside the Crochans, earning some measure of trust from them.

įor the next three months, the Thirteen searched for Crochans, eventually finding a camp in the mountains led by Manon's great-grandmother Glennis. They bore witness to Aelin Galathynius's capture by Queen Maeve and followed their leader when she made the decision to track down the hidden Crochan witches. Three months later they reunited with her, joining a naval battle in Eyllwe and crushing the opposition.

After receiving their new wyverns the Thirteen quickly became the highest-ranked coven amongst all the clans.Īfter Manon's defection from the clan-in defiance of her grandmother attempting to execute Asterin-the Thirteen fled Morath and were separated from their leader. Towards the start of the third Valg war, the Thirteen accompanied the Blackbeak Clan, under orders from the Matron, to Morath to train as Erawan's new aerial legion.

Within the coven, there existed a hierarchy, with Manon being the leader, her cousin Asterin Second, and Sorrel Third, etc. The members were extremely loyal to the coven and to each other. Over the next hundred years the Thirteen gained notoriety amongst the Blackbeak Clan as being the most deadly coven in the clan. They are all around the same age and were raised and trained together. The Thirteen was founded by Manon Blackbeak when she was a young witchling.

The thirteen curses