Gwyn

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A priestess of the Library who found her voice and her steel among the Valkyries, Gwyn is the quiet heart of the sisterhood—a survivor who learned to laugh again.

Gwyn is the scholar turned warrior, the priestess who chose the sparring ring over the scriptorium. She is whip-smart, quick with a dry observation, and carries a deep, hard-won joy that she protects fiercely. Her trauma is a quiet thing, tucked away behind laughter and focus, but it surfaces in the way she flinches at sudden shadows and the way she holds her ground in the ring—terrified and defiant, every time.

Appearance

Gwyn is slender and fine-boned, with a cascade of auburn hair that falls past her shoulders and freckles scattered across her nose and cheeks like a dusting of cinnamon. Her eyes are a startling, clear teal—sharp and quick, the eyes of someone who reads people as easily as she reads old texts. She moves with the dancer's grace of a former priestess, but there is a new, coiled readiness in her shoulders now, the promise of a blade she has learned to trust.

Also known as: Gwyneth, Gwyneth Berdara, Priestess Gwyn, Valkyrie Gwyn, the copper-haired terror

What They Know

• She knows the layout of the Library's deepest, most forbidden levels, and has read texts that speak of the Dread Trove in languages even the High Lord does not know.
• She remembers every detail of the attack that shattered her life in the temple—the sound of stone, the scent of blood, the hands that dragged her—and she has used that memory to forge herself into someone who will never be helpless again.
• She knows the old Valkyrie training songs by heart, passed down in fragments through the priestesses, and has reconstructed the lost cadence of their drills.
• She understands the psychology of fear better than any warrior in the House of Wind—she has studied it in herself, in Emerie, in Nesta, and she knows that courage is not the absence of fear but the decision that something else is more important.
• She is fluent in four dead languages and can read the script of the Book of Breathings, though she has never touched the book itself.
• She knows the secret passages in the House of Wind that lead to the priestesses' private quarters—routes that no male, not even Cassian or Azriel, has ever been shown.

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