#and also Nesta's mark of the eight pointed star and the symbol in the prison where the harp was just... I NEED ANSWERS

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ACOTAR & CC Theories (Part 2): The Starborn, Queen Theia and her daughters

DISCLAIMER: I appreciate others may have already thought of this, i just finished HOSAB last night and my brain is reeling so I made this post to organise my thoughts/theories and wanted to share it.

Where did the Starborn Fae come from?

At the end of HOSAB when Bryce discovers the Asteri's secret, Rigelus reveals to her the origin of the Starborn Fae:

A 'lovely verdant land, rich with magic'....ughh PRYTHIAN.

'The mainland had all manner of climes'....SJM is definitely alluding to the courts there which all have different weather

So if the mainland is Prythian then this small Isle must definitely be the Prison, which was originally the eighth court, the forgotten DUSK Court!!!

Also, in ACOSF, when Nesta goes to the Prison to retrieve the Harp, it is located on the centre of an eight-pointed star--a symbol of the Starborn fae and the same-shaped star that marks Bryce, the Starborn heir's chest

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Who was Queen Theia?

So in CC HOEAB we learn that Theia was a Starborn Queen who entered Midgard during the Crossing. Based on the previous evidence, she most definitely is part of the Dusk Court.

Also since she was a Queen rather than a High Lady, this must have been during the time that Prythian was ruled by the Fae High King mentioned in ACOSF.

This Fae High King, Fionn, owned a magic sword known as Gwydion, which we find out in HOSAB is the Starsword.

The Queen here could definitely be Theia and the High general could be Pelias. Why they betrayed/killed the High King, I don't know, but I feel like Pelias is a manipulative and sneaky fucker who could have tricked Theia.

This capacity for betrayal makes sense when we find out in HOSAB that Pelias sides with the Asteri, kills Theia and forces her oldest daughter Helena into marriage, making himself Prince.

We find out in HOSAB that the Fae (Theia, Pelias and her people, the Dusk Court) were lured into Midgard by the Asteri. They make this crossing through the use of Luna's Horn:

This could mean that the Horn could be the fourth item in the Dread Trove. This makes sense when we remember the vision Lanthys shows Nesta in ACOSF:

Also in ACOSF, Amren says that Gwydion vanished long ago, along with fourth item in the Dread Trove. This matches up with the time line of Theia and Pelias stealing the Starsword from Fionn and using the Horn to make the Crossing.

And if the Horn is the fourth item then, the other item Rigelus alludes to is most definitely the Harp as it can 'open doors, physical or otherwise. Some say between worlds'. Also, the Harp is found by Nesta in the Prison which we said is the eighth court.

We can also assume that the Asteri are the original owners of the Dread Trove, which explains how they had been able to access and control various different worlds.

Back to the Crossing--after entering Midgard, Theia and her daughters realised too late that they have been tricked:

Presuming the Prison/Eighth Court was where the Fae had made the Crossing, this location would have been one of the 'access points' that had been sealed and this would explain why the walls of the Prison seem to have people trapped in them:

Furthermore, in Part 1 of this post, I mentioned that Koschei and Stryga (the Weaver) could be or be related to the Daglan/Asteri. This is significant when Rigelus talks about the 'access points' hidden by his 'siblings' in the ACOTAR-verse that Theia or her daughters manage to close.

In ACOWAR, the Bone Carver mentions that Koschei and Stryga had long ago been tricked and confined to certain areas in the ACOTAR-verse: Stryga to the Middle and Koschei to a small lake in the Mainland. This confinement was carried out by an ancient Fae warrior whose existence predated the High Lords, i.e during the time of the High King:

What caught my eye here was that although the name of this Fae warrior had been forgotten to time, a trace of her still runs through some'human line'...could the Bone Carver be talking about half-human Bryce who is the Starborn Heir.

The Fae warrior could have been Theia or one of her daughters.

Queen Theia's Daughters

Theia has two daughters, the oldest Helena is forced into marriage by Pelias after he kills her mother. He uses Helena to establish himself as a Starborn Prince.

In CC, we actually get a description of Helena's colouring: 'Night haired Helena, from whose golden skin poured starlight and shadows'. This is similar to Ruhn's colouring and subsequently Rhysand's.

Which brings me back to the younger daughter, who 'got away--vanished into the night'. Presuming this daughter looks like her older sister, she could potentially be Rhys' ancestor, if she managed to escape back into Prythian.

This makes sense when it's revealed in ACOMAF that the High Lord of Night's blood is keyed to the gates of the Prison, the original Eighth/Dusk Court. It would make sense that the blood of these High Lord's can open the Prison as they are descendants of the original Dusk Court rulers.