Topping Tuesday: Top 5 Throne of Glass Characters
Hey pplz! Welcome to a new Weekly Segment of this blog, Topping Tuesday! (Even though it’s Wednesday. Whoops.)
This week will be a Top 5 list of the best Throne of Glass characters. Since I just finished Empire of Storms and now probably have a reading slump because of it, all the posts this week are probably gonna be about, you guessed it right, Throne of Glass. The theory this week will be about ToG too. Why must that book be so good?!
Since this is only the second Top 5 list I’ve ever written, let’s hope it’ll be okay. Anyway, here goes!
5. Marion Lochan
We don’t know much about her, and she died 17 years before the time in the books, but still.
We know she had a hard life though; and she had witch-blood(Ironteeth or Crochan?) in her veins. And she gave her life to save Aelin, and the bloodline of the Galathynius that day.
She was a kind and strong-willed woman(from the Ironteeth blood, perhaps?), and she fought until her last breath.
Elide has little witch-blood in her veins, yet even Lorcan says that she is cunning. Perhaps her mother Marion, with twice the witch-blood, was twice as cunning as Elide.
I still hope that we will learn more about her and Cal Lochan in the future book though.
4. Rowan Whitethorn
Rowannnnnnnnnnn
Enough fangirling, self! Anyway. Rowan. I can do this.
Rowan Whitethorn. From the bloodline of Mora. A legendary Fae prince who is at least 3 centuries old, and has lost 2 mates (even though one was not a real mate), and many others otherwise. Used to be part of Maeve’s blood-sworn cadre.
In the start of Heir of Fire, he is described to be the coldest and most sadistic of the 6 in the cadre, but I don’t believe that’s actually true. Again, another of Sarah J Maas’s failed writing development attempts. In my opinion, Lorcan is probably the owner of that title. Of course, we still don’t know anything about Vaughan or Fenrys’s dark twin, Connall.
He’s actually the type of rare Fae that takes pity on people. Actually, maybe not. We don’t know anything about his time before he met Aelin, but still. He took pity on her, but maybe that’s because they’re mates.
Rowaelin is proof the mating isn’t instant and perfect; they went through almost a year with each other before they realized that they were mates, and they went through a lot together.
I’m starting to go off-topic.
Let’s just say, he’s a smol bean.
3. Asterin Blackbeak
Okay. Asterin Blackbeak. Brave, fierce and wild are some of the words that were used to describe her by Manon, but that was before Manon knew what her grandmother did to Asterin, and she has certainly proved to be those and much more.
She went through a lot; yet instead of being hell-bent on revenge on Manon’s grandmother and perhaps even Manon, she instead did the only other thing she could; become stronger and better(in the Blackbeak style), and tolerate the Blackbeak Matron, even as she tried to demean Asterin at every turn.
Well, that was sappy.
I don’t know if it’s sad or good that after the Matron threw her out, she came back with no thoughts of revenge on her mind, and Asterin wasn’t really one of my favourites, but this is a list of the best characters as in good, so yeah.
2. Nehemia Ytger
No question that she’s a good person. She wasn’t my particular favourite during ToG and CoM, but I’m me, and I rarely like good characters for some reason.
But yeah. As read on EoS, she went to Rifthold knowing that she would never see her homeland or her people again, and she willingly sacrificed herself just to push Aelin to take on her role.
Even though she kept many secrets from Aelin, it was for the right reasons and we all know that Aelin wouldn’t have believed it if she told her anyway. Aelin had to go through a lot more after Nehemia died before she finally realized her role, so Nehemia trying to speed up the process by telling her there and the wouldn’t have helped, and probably would have lengthened the process much more.
1. Sam Cortland
Even though he was never technically alive in the actual books, he’s still unarguably the best character in the entire series. That is, for the people who have read The Assassin’s Blade, which includes the 5 novellas of the Throne of Glass series (all based during the time before the first novel). Half the book is about him.
What makes me, a person who usually only likes one or two characters in a book series, put him as first on this list, you may ask?
Well, the answer is simple: He’s just that amazing. He may have not gone through as many hardships as Aelin (although it was close, during the time that he was still alive), he never let it consume him and change him like Aelin did. Aaand oh god I’m starting to sound really sappy so I’m just gonna stop right now.
Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that for so many years managed to act like he hated Aelin when in fact he was in love with her, even though she treated him horribly, and he’s still the kindest assassin ever, and also the smollest bean ever. Also Samaelin is otp ❤
Okay that sucked
I know you’re probably mad at me for not including Aelin herself into this list. But let’s face it, she doesn’t have the best of personalities. Even though she definitely changed that in Empire of Storms, I still do not think it’s enough to make it into this list.
Anyway, I hope the next Top 5 list will be better. I suck at making these, but hey, at least it’s long! It reached 1,000 words. Yay me!
Until next time,
Waneresa
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