When two of the men exit Manon's room, she slips out of the dresser in which she hid, sneaks up behind the lone man, and disembowels him. They rummage around her house, searching for valuables and calling for her to come out, though Manon knows they just wanted to steal from her and then kill her because the people of the village are afraid of her. One night, three villagers enter her cottage uninvited. Manon lives undercover as a Crochan witch in a village in Fenharrow in the hopes of flushing out the real Crochans. She created The Thirteen, a group of the strongest young Ironteeth Witches to be her personal coven. She wore this cape, which made her stand out from the rest because no other would risk enraging the Matron by wearing the cloak of their enemy. Manon's first kill was a young Crochan whose red cape she took as a trophy.

Rhiannon, Manon's paternal half-sister, assumed the search in her father's stead.Īs eyes flecked with gold have been considered a lucky trait among the Blackbeak Clan, Mother Blackbeak, after seeing the child had eyes of pure gold, took Manon away from her mother's still-cooling corpse and proclaimed her the heir to the Clan. Mother Blackbeak tracked him down she taunted him, informing him that she had killed his lover and that she would turn Manon into a monster before slaughtering him. Tristan never ceased loving Lothian and his daughter, and he continued to diligently search for them. Manon was told that her mother died birthing her in reality, Mother Blackbeak killed her own daughter after Manon was born.

During labor, Lothian revealed Manon's parentage to Mother Blackbeak, saying that she believed that Manon's mixed blood could be the key to breaking the curse on the Ironteeth. 116 years before meeting Aelin Galathynius, Manon's mother Lothian Blackbeak, and Tristan Crochan fell in love with one another, and Lothian became pregnant with Manon.

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