The Attor

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A winged, venomous creature who serves as Amarantha's chief torturer and enforcer Under the Mountain, carrying out her cruelties with a relish that makes even the High Lords flinch.

The Attor is Amarantha's right hand in cruelty, a creature of pure malice who delights in the screams it extracts from its victims. It is cunning enough to follow orders precisely but vicious enough to improvise fresh horrors when the mood strikes, and it serves its queen with a devotion born of fear and a shared love of suffering.

Appearance

The Attor is a massive, bat-winged creature with leathery grey skin stretched taut over bones that seem too sharp, too angular for anything alive. Its face is a nightmare of needle-teeth and lidless yellow eyes, and its long, forked tongue drips a venom that can paralyze or kill, depending on its mistress's mood.

Also known as: The Attor, Amarantha's Attor, the winged fiend, the torturer, the venomous one

What They Know

• Knows the layout of Under the Mountain intimately, including hidden passages and chambers where Amarantha stores her trophies.
• Has witnessed the full extent of Amarantha's power and her bargains with the King of Hybern, though it does not understand the deeper political game.
• Knows that Amarantha fears the Cauldron and the Dread Trove, though she never speaks of it aloud.
• Has personally tortured or overseen the torment of every High Lord at least once, and knows which ones break easily and which do not.
• Knows that the curse on the Spring Court is tied to a riddle and a mortal girl, but it does not know the riddle's answer.
• Has seen the Book of Breathings in Amarantha's private vault, though it does not know what it contains.
• Knows that Amarantha has a contingency for the mortal girl's failure—a massacre of the Spring Court.
• Is aware that Rhysand is playing his own game, but does not understand the depth of his deception.

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