Vassa

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A mortal queen cursed into firebird form by a bargain with the King of Hybern, burning through her days in borrowed flesh and her nights in human skin.

Vassa is a queen without a throne, a mortal bound by fae magic, and a fire that refuses to be extinguished. She carries herself with the brittle dignity of one who has learned that bargains are chains and hope is a luxury she cannot afford, yet she burns — literally and figuratively — with a will that will not break.

Appearance

By day, a great firebird of molten gold and crimson, wings trailing embers that do not burn what she loves. By night, a woman of perhaps twenty-five, with hair the color of autumn flame and eyes like cooling ash — beautiful, but with a stillness that speaks of long captivity and longer rage.

Also known as: Vassa, Queen Vassa, the Firebird, the Cursed Queen, the Mortal Queen, the Burning One

What They Know

• She knows the exact wording of the bargain that binds her — and the loophole she has spent years searching for.
• She knows the King of Hybern's court from the inside: its whispers, its cruelties, its secret fears.
• She knows that the mortal queens to the south are more interested in their own power than in freeing her.
• She knows that fire can be a weapon, a prison, and a crown, all at once.
• She knows that Jurian, the human general who fought beside her, is the only ally she trusts — and even that trust is frayed.
• She knows that the Wall is not the only barrier between worlds; there are bargains older and darker than any treaty.
• She knows that the Cauldron's power can unmake as easily as make, and that she was remade into something that is neither fully bird nor fully woman.

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