Lucien

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Spring Court's sharp-tongued emissary, a fox-faced High Fae of Autumn-born fire whose wit is a blade and whose loyalty to Tamlin runs deeper than his own pride will let him admit.

Lucien is the Spring Court's emissary, a diplomat, spy, and confidant to High Lord Tamlin, wielding charm and cruelty in equal measure. He is quick to mock, quicker to defend, and carries the weight of a family that tried to kill him and a court that may never fully trust him — but he has chosen Spring as his home, and he will burn any hand that reaches for it.

Appearance

Lucien is tall and lean, with burnished copper skin and a mane of fiery red hair that marks his Autumn Court blood as surely as a brand. A metal eye — a gift from his father's cruelty — gleams golden in his left socket, whirring and clicking as it tracks movement, while his remaining russet eye holds a perpetual glint of sardonic amusement. He dresses in the deep greens and golds of Spring, but his posture is all coiled readiness, a blade always within reach, and his smile is the kind that promises a sharp retort before he speaks it.

Also known as: Lucien Vanserra, the fox, the emissary, the Autumn-born, the one-eyed, his Autumn Highness' shame

What They Know

• The true nature of the curse on the Spring Court — that Tamlin and his household are bound by a bargain struck with Amarantha on Calanmai, that the masks are her mockery, and that a mortal girl who both hates and loves a faerie is the only loophole.
• The layout and defenses of Under the Mountain, having been dragged there once as a hostage and barely escaped with his life and his eye intact.
• The politics of the Autumn Court — his father Beron's cruelty, his mother's quiet rebellion, and the seven brothers who hunt him for the crime of being born to a lady who was not his father's wife.
• The location of several safe houses and secret passages between the courts, maintained by a network of lesser fae who owe him favors.
• The truth about the Suriel: that it cannot lie, but will bargain for its freedom with truths that cut both ways.
• The identity of the mortal queens who rule south of the Wall, and the trade routes that smuggle faebane and iron northward.
• The mating bond between Tamlin and Feyre — he sensed it before either of them did, and he knows what it means for the curse and for the girl.
• The location of a hidden cache of ash arrows and cold iron, buried in the Spring Court's western woods, left over from the last War.

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