60 Fun Facts About Throne of Glass

Who wrote the Throne of Glass series?

She began the story at sixteen and by 2024 had sold more than 75 million books across Throne of Glass, ACOTAR, and Crescent City.

What is Celaena Sardothien's profession when the first book opens?

She is eighteen and has already spent a year in the salt mines when Prince Dorian arrives with his offer.

Where has Celaena been enslaved for a year before the series begins?

The camp sits on Adarlan's border with Terrasen, and the average slave there survives about a month.

What title is at stake in the competition Celaena enters in the first book?

Winning would mean serving the king for six years, after which she would finally be free.

Which fairy tale did Maas cite as the seed of the first book?

Watching the heroine flee the ball, Maas thought the music was far too dark, and reimagined the runaway as an assassin who had come to kill the prince.

Under what title did the story first appear online on FictionPress?

It became one of the most popular stories on the site before Maas pulled it down to pursue publication.

How old was Maas when she began writing what became Throne of Glass?

That was 2002, a full decade before Bloomsbury published the finished novel in August 2012.

Which publisher bought Throne of Glass in 2010?

The same house went on to publish ACOTAR and Crescent City, and it made Throne of Glass the first of its children's novels featured on NetGalley.

Which book closed the Throne of Glass series in October 2018?

At 992 pages it is by far the longest entry, more than double the page count of the first book.

Which title collects the prequel novellas about Celaena and Sam Cortland?

Four of its five stories were released as e-books between January and July 2012 to build buzz before the first novel came out.

Which two books overlap in time so closely that fans built 'tandem read' guides for them?

The guides tell you which chapter of each book to read next so the two storylines unfold side by side.

Which streamer optioned the series for TV in 2016 under the working title Queen of Shadows?

The Mark Gordon Company was attached and Kira Snyder of The 100 was to write it, but nothing was made and the rights reverted to Maas.

Which Throne of Glass novel did Utah's school board remove from all public schools in 2024?

Five ACOTAR books were pulled at the same time, making Maas six of the thirteen titles on the list.

Embers of Memory, the official two-player card game, is set during which book?

Osprey Games released it in 2019; players help Aelin survive Maeve's captivity by diving through her memories.

Which two characters did Maas name as inspirations for Celaena's personality?

Maas said Velma's arrogance and fierceness made her want to write a woman who never apologized for loving herself.

Which novel's release put the series on the New York Times Best Seller list for the first time?

The second book arrived in August 2013, a year after the debut, and PopSugar ranked it the number two YA book of that year.

Which website premiered the Throne of Glass book trailer in May 2012?

Publishers Weekly had already previewed the book that February, and CAA picked up the film option rights.

What is Celaena Sardothien's true name?

She was the Princess of Terrasen until age eight, when her parents were murdered and she was pulled from a river by Arobynn Hamel.

Aelin is the rightful queen of which realm?

It was the first kingdom the King of Adarlan conquered, and its capital Orynth once held the greatest library in Erilea.

What position does Chaol Westfall hold when Celaena first meets him?

Maas wrote him as a man who saw the world in black and white, and Celaena as the wrench thrown into it.

Rowan Whitethorn first appears in which book of the series?

He is more than three centuries old and spends the first months of their training treating Aelin with cold annoyance.

What animal does Rowan shift into?

Even in bird form he can still wield his wind and ice magic; in the FictionPress draft his name was Raonn.

Manon Blackbeak's wyvern was originally used as what in the training pits?

Manon named the scarred runt Abraxos after the serpent who holds the world in his coils, and he turned out to love wildflowers.

What is the name of Manon Blackbeak's personal coven?

Her cousin Asterin was its Second for a century, with Sorrel as Third.

Along with the Blackbeaks, which two clans make up the Ironteeth witches?

All three clans share retractable iron teeth and nails and a clear eyelid for flying, and Maas drew on Baba Yaga for them.

Manon Blackbeak's sword has what name?

She loses her grip on it in the wyvern pit and it lands beside the bait beast who becomes Abraxos.

Which princess of Eyllwe becomes Celaena's closest friend in the glass castle?

She hid how well she spoke the common tongue so courtiers would talk freely around her, and she named Celaena 'Elentiya'.

Who gives Celaena the dog Fleetfoot?

The pup was going to be put down for her antisocial temperament; she arrived as a Yulemas gift along with three pounds of candy.

Sam Cortland was murdered on the orders of Arobynn Hamel by which Rifthold crime figure?

Celaena's attempt at revenge on Farran and his master Jayne is the betrayal that lands her in Endovier.

Arobynn Hamel is known by what title in Rifthold?

When he found Aelin's left-hand swordwork lacking, he made her choose between breaking her right hand herself or letting him do it.

Which character kills Arobynn Hamel in Queen of Shadows?

Aelin hands her a note reading 'He's all yours', and she cuts his throat while he sleeps beside her.

Which animal form does Aelin's shapeshifting friend prefer above all others?

Aelin later makes her Lady of Caraverre and gives her a ring engraved with a ghost leopard and a key above it.

Aedion Ashryver, Aelin's cousin, was known by what nickname as one of Adarlan's generals?

He staged battles and inflated body counts to quietly help the rebels while wearing Adarlan's colours.

Which member of Maeve's cadre turns out to be Aedion's father?

The blood oath forced him to leave Aedion's mother, and he never knew he had a son until Rowan worked it out.

Elide Lochan is the rightful lady of which city?

Her uncle Vernon stole the title after her father's execution and refused to let a healer see her broken ankle.

Which member of the cadre does Elide Lochan marry?

The most powerful demi-Fae in existence, he ends the series as Lord of Perranth, wed within a week of the coronation.

Which member of Maeve's cadre had a twin brother named Connall?

He swore the blood oath to take his brother's place in Maeve's bed, and his wolf form nods to the Norse Fenrir.

Maeve rules the Fae from which city?

Called the City of Rivers, it is built of stone and ringed with water, which Aelin suspects was a defence against Brannon's fire.

Maeve is eventually revealed to be what?

Her blood is black, and she uses mind manipulation so that even someone taking the blood oath cannot tell.

Erawan spent most of the series hiding inside which Adarlanian noble?

The duke sponsored Cain in the King's Champion competition, and Erawan is the youngest of the three Valg kings.

How many Wyrdkeys exist?

The Valg kings forged one apiece to control the Wyrdgates; one ended up hidden inside the Amulet of Orynth.

Which Galathynius family heirloom secretly contains a Wyrdkey?

Aelin's mother gave it to her the night before the assassinations, and Arobynn quietly took it from her neck while she lay unconscious.

Where in Kaltain Rompier's body was a Wyrdkey implanted?

It turned her lost fire magic into shadowfire; she later cut it out and passed it to Elide, then blew up a third of Morath.

Which sword, called the Sword of Truth, was first wielded by Gavin Havilliard?

Aelin recovered it and gave it to Dorian; Elide later drives it into Erawan to pin him for Yrene's killing blow.

Which goddess blessed the first Galathynius king with the fire magic Aelin inherits?

She is the sun goddess whose sacred sun stags carry her flame between their antlers, and Brannon carried her gift west across the ocean.

Elena, the ghostly first Queen of Adarlan who guides Celaena, was the daughter of which Fae king?

Her tomb beneath the glass castle is guarded by Mort, a talking bronze skull knocker animated by old spells.

Tower of Dawn follows Chaol to which city on the Southern Continent?

The book was planned as a novella until Maas fell for the project and expanded it to a full novel.

Where was the healer Yrene Towers working as a barmaid when Celaena first crossed her path?

Celaena left her a purse of coin and a ruby brooch so she could sail south to train, and Yrene later becomes Chaol's wife.

Which khagan's son, commander of the ruk riders, does Nesryn Faliq fall for in Tower of Dawn?

Nesryn only shares her singing voice once she is accepted among his riders, and she rides three weeks into the mountains with him.

Which two characters from A Court of Thorns and Roses does Aelin glimpse while falling between worlds in the final book?

In the same passage she sees a river city of impossibly tall buildings, which is Lunathion, the setting of Crescent City.

In Maas's original FictionPress draft, Aelin's homeland went by what name?

Several names shifted between draft and print: Sam was Symeth, Chaol was Wydrael, and Nehemia was Anuksun.

Which pirate lord's hands are tattooed with a magical map that shifts to show treasure and enemies?

Celaena and Sam free two hundred slaves from his port of Skull's Bay in the first Assassin's Blade novella.

Which of Celaena's fellow acolytes in the Red Desert later rules as Queen of the Western Wastes?

Celaena gave her twenty minutes to flee and only fired after the time was up; Manon insists the Wastes belong to the witches.

How many Baast Cats guard the library of the Torre Cesme?

The tower's name means Tower of Dawn in Halha, the language of the Southern Continent, which is where the sixth book's title comes from.

Which company published the two-player Throne of Glass card game in October 2019?

Players dive into Aelin's memories to help her survive imprisonment at Maeve's hands.

Which Garth Nix novel did Maas name, with Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown, as a formative influence?

She said both books' strong heroines shaped her identity and made her want to write empowering stories.

Which writer of The 100 was attached to script Hulu's planned Queen of Shadows adaptation?

Anna Foerster was in line to direct the pilot before the rights reverted to Maas.

Throne of Glass was the first Bloomsbury children's novel featured on which review-copy site?

Publicist Emma Bradshaw credited Maas's huge online following, particularly in the US.

Which retailer named Throne of Glass its Best Book of the Month for Kids & Teens in August 2012?

USA Today's Serena Chase called Celaena a 'next-level Cinderella' in her review.

Where do Bloomsbury and Maas's own site suggest placing The Assassin's Blade in the reading order?

The novellas are a prequel in story terms but were published in 2014, a year after Crown of Midnight.