The Broken Glass Sea
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Icefell
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Denizens of the Winter Court

The Thornguards

The Thornguards are Prince Rowan’s elite guard, answering only to him and Queen Mab. Along with their prince, they betray their own people and side with the Iron fey, believing they can develop an immunity to the deadly metal and survive when the Iron Realm takes over the Nevernever. They wear rings made of iron that cause their flesh to slowly decay, thorny armor that bristles like giant porcupine quills and carry swords that are black and spiky with razor-sharp thorns running the length of the blade. When the Thornguards die, their bodies erupt into thorny brambles.

Tiaothin

This phouka befriends Meghan while she is being held in the Unseelie Court by Mab. They first meet when Meghan is being stalked through the library by a Jack-of-Irons. Tiaothin has dreadlocked hair and yellow eyes, and she can take the form of a slinky black cat and a shaggy black goat, among other things. Tiaothin often jumps from subject to subject while in conversation, and acts as a messenger for Mab and the Winter princes. Meghan often gets the sense that Tiaothin is sizing her up, and though she is the one who discovers Meghan kneeling over the dead body of Prince Sage, she helps Prince Ash rescue Meghan from the Winter Palace by leading the guards on a wild-goose chase. Later, Ash admits he asked Tiaothin to keep an eye on Meghan while she was being kept in the Winter Court.

Dame Liaden

An ancient faery who lives in a small, dilapidated cabin beneath two rotting trees in the frozen wood of the Winter Realm. She wears a gray robe and cowl draped over her body like old curtains. She cares for a wrinkled, ghastly baby in a stained white blanket, a hideous child with a deformed head too large for its body, tiny, shriveled limbs and skin tinged an unhealthy blue. She must wash her child in the blood of human infants in order to make it healthy again, if only temporarily.

Narissa

This snow faery encounters Ash with Meghan and Puck as they make their way from the Chillsorrow Manor toward the trod to the Voodoo Museum in New Orleans. She overhears that Ash has made a bargain with Meghan and delights in the chance to tell Mab and the Unseelie Court about his potential betrayal.

THE IRON REALM

(the Iron Kingdom, the Iron Court)

When Meghan first enters the Iron Realm, then known as the Iron Kingdom, she sees a blasted wasteland, filled with old technology, scrap piles and acid rain that can burn through human and faery flesh. The encroachment of Iron is poisoning the traditional Nevernever and threatening the balance of Faery. Ultimately, it is Meghan who learns to balance the old and new and how one can complement the other, saving all of Faery and taking the throne as the Iron Queen.