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Kingdom of Ash

Part 2

Gods and Gates

will probably have spoilers below the “more bar of safety”

Currently on: Chapter 68

Will check off as I read them (if I remember lol :-) green means done, grey means reading ;-)

68. ✅ IT’S MAEVE ISNT IT?—CRAP ITS MAEVE!

69. ✅ DONT LOSE HOPE—SHES COMING Y’ALL

70. ✅ DORIAN WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?! NoNONOOO!

71. ✅ So… Dorian’s marrying Maeve now???

72. ✅ Solution show Erawan Sesame Street; quick lesson in sharing & it all goes away — "Because you are his father, and no matter what might lie between you, Aedion will always want to forgive you."

73. ✅

74. ✅ What the fuck… Maeve is pretending to be Aelin?.. I am disturbed.

75. ✅ her friends😭

76. ✅ MAEVE IS EVIL BUT ALSO… I AM CONFUSED? — AGHHHHHHH NIGHTFALL I KNOW THE REFERENCE ITS NIGHTFALL WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!!!

77. ✅ BREAK MY SOUL — WAIT DORIAN SOEECH IS BEAUTIFUL — FUCK NO MAEVE DAMMIT DORIAN

78. ✅ OH HELL YES DORIAN — okay wait I’m confused by this passage: He should let Erawan find her. Doom her to the life she'd intended for him. For Aelin. Maeve curled over her knees, her mind and power contained. Waiting in despair for the dark king whom she'd tried so hard to escape. Or for the shuddering fortress to collapse around her. He knew he would regret it. Knew he should kill her. But to condemn her to what he'd endured ... He would not wish it upon anyone. Even if it cost them this war. He did not think it made him weak. Not at all. — is he or is he not killing her? He really “should” cause we don’t want Valg Maeve running around… but I think this passage is more about him as a king and “who he will be”… and what he’s essentially saying is karma right?.. That’s what Maeve is facing. He’s letting fate decide (the equivalent of handing the girl the knife) & will be doing so generally speaking (like the gates eluded to?) & he’s saying he’ll regret it (because killing her is safer but he is not one to kill & that is not weakness), & because he wouldn’t wish that fate on anyone. But this is it: who he’ll be; he’s going to try and do his best (like saving the servants) & let karma/fate decide. And perhaps that answers the question he keeps asking on mercy? Basically, who he’ll be win, lose, or draw?.. well now Karma’s always gonna make me think of him & his witch girlfriend… but I do have hope between him & Aelin + Manon they can go get to Orynth & save the day… Maybe he learned traveling portals🤞

79. ✅Well that’s some foreshadowing with that healing talk… THIS QUOTE — WOW — HELL YES ELIDE; "I was defenseless when you let my leg remain unhealed," she said, a steady sort of calm settling over her. "I was a child then, and I survived. You're a grown man." She let her lips curl in another smile. "We'll see if you do, too."

80. ✅ "Together Fireheart." 🥹😭🥺 "Aelin realized that, perhaps, her mate did not have a solution either." — NOO ROWAN HAVE A PLAN ANYONE HAVE A PLAN — THIS IS MY COURT BBS😭 also Karmas really boppin 😅😅😬👀

81. ✅ HIS SPEECH TO EVANGELINE — HIS SPEECH TO LYSANDRA — Holy fuck no — HOLY FUCK YES — THE LAST CROCHAN QUEEN … these are getting their own quote posts —the full circle of the call for aid of Manon and love and the THOUSANDS of red capes CRYING-CHILLS-SQUEALING-THE CROCHANS HAD RETURNED AT LAST

82. ✅ “We are the Thirteen," she said. "From now until darkness claims us." while I’m glad Lys is still “mad” I am no longer… you two should just kiss? Tomorrow then 😏 😉 also same Evangeline I want a red cape🥹 and wow Sarah really balances my heartbreak and humor😅🥲🫶 perhaps waiting gave me the emotional strength to bawl my eyes out laugh and squeal for 48 hours straight

83. ✅ better not be foreshadowing, lack of Aelin please mean she’s gonna show up in a big bang, the king bowed back, the path for Sorscha, so many feelings… oh and please don’t accidentally shoot down the line Wyvern anyone your friends are shifters too

84. ✅ "let’s make this fight worthy of a song." (& a tomorrow kiss ;-)

85. ✅ "A Valg Prince had come." — shit — also opinion update: Extra points for Aedion Ashryver for having most of my favorite quotes & interactions today, I love the guy, I love him and Lys, I love the way their not burying it under a rug but there also not letting it wreck everything their healing and working together, I’ve missed them, I’ve missed this piece of Aedion; his humor, his compassion, his big brother nature. Really all the characters have a great arc and I always love them in the end. Welcome back buddy I never hated you but I did miss you.

86. ✅ Killian being the one to write - a new perspective now - the first time we get Evangeline - don’t you dare use this as random soldier or Callacula and kill Aedion - her saying she’d never had a brother or father and hadn’t decided which she’d like him to be - rip my soul out why don’t you Sarah Jessica

87. ✅ THE LOVE STORY TATTOO😭 LORCAN WAS HOME

88. ✅ NO NO. NO! NOO!!! NOOOOOOOONONO!!! COME ON PETRAH SOMEONE ANYONE NO!!! *update later haha I was right yay*

89. ✅ (green is too happy a color for a checkmark) the stages of reading: MANON JUST SAID I LOVE YOU TO ABRAXOS — HELL YEAH PETRAH (I knew I liked her) FOR KEELIE — NO THE WITCH TOWER NO — LYSANDRA AND AEDION TOGETHER AGAIN BUT NOT LIKE THIS — THE THIRTEEN HELPING ABRAXOS AS ONE — WAIT WHAT?! — NO. NO! NONONO — I AM NEVER GOING TO BE OKAY AGAIN… "Live Manon" — well I’m dead inside Sarah so… *I wish I was kidding when I said I’m crying* — Abraxos is gonna wake up without Narene that’s why Manon’s screams start there, and then Asterin her soul sister… this hurts me personally not gonna lie this is kinda painful beyond fandom cathartic (while albeit well written) I miss ACOTAR’s no one dies… not them… not Asterin… not my 13… this is one of the saddest things I’ve ever read… no way I’m sleeping tonight all that’s left to do is read but I swear to god if this isn’t a happy ending I’m gonna lose it cause I’m using my time change to cry over this instead of sleeping don’t do this to me Sarah… oooo time change time travel let’s invent that in this universe and change it cool solved

90. ✅ someone come sedate me with an amnesia ray … beautiful isn’t the right word but it almost is … too many to say and too little to speak

91. ✅ THE CHAOL DORIAN REUINION — I NEEDED THIS — him learning he’s gonna be an uncle and calling Yrene golden and his sister — no not now why is now the time to vote — yeah everyone let’s not go off to be a lamb Aelin — No. this vote no.

92. ✅ no last moments aghhhh that argument gutted me

93. ✅ the three of them where it all began now please make this work — HIS FATHER

94. ✅ AELIN AND ROWAN AND THE KING AND HER PARENTS AND SHES GONE AND WHAT WHAT

95. ✅ NOOOOOOO

96. ✅ NOT THE CUT OFF

97. ✅ NO ELENA!!!

98. ✅ SHE WOULD NOT YIELD IT — “NO LONGER THE QUEEN WHO WAS PROMISED BUT THE QUEEN WHO WALKED BETWEEN WORLDS” (sorry Maeve stole your title) *edit later… maybe Dorian can give Aelin back powers similarly?*

99. ✅ WYRDMARK TATTOO GENIUS (really they are equals) — RHYS? — SHE GOT HOME

100. ✅ … there’s still more to go … I’m nervous but also can finally breathe now that we’re not ya know fighting fate — WHY IS LONG LIVE STUCK IN MY HEAD ITS MAKING THIS HARDER TO READ TOO SOON BRAIN TOO SOON — I’m just glad I have 200+ pages left cause I’m not ready to say goodbye yet — Okay watching Manon grieve is such representation it hurts and heals and is gutting but the line “she had to keep moving or else she would cease functioning at all” hit home — LysAedion hugs🥹 — I love Ansel😭 — Petrah lives — Cresseida where r u??? — I love sassy Murtaugh — we’d all pick him as a grandfather if we could🥹😭

101. ✅ new theory there is something important in those books because they keep re-reading — I LOVE ELIDE — I LOVE BORTE — I LOVE YRENE — WTF WHY R THEY ALL MAD AT AELIN — I MISS RENIA — THANK YOU LORCAN — the ring😭 — they both still have magic — LIVE being the book trope — character growth “Live.”

102. ✅ WHAT-WHAT-and just like that Murtaughs dead😱🫥😭😵 NOOOOOO *checks e-book for missed page😅😂* poor ren is left with no one… they all are *quote echo: what will be left?* is she Evangeline’s mother now or sister I think mother but I wonder the dynamics of Evangeline between grandfather and father/brother… I know I have a heart for my heart is breaking… a common enemy — timing it all in my head they will make it if they hold on 3 days and Aelin will be there just hold on

103. ✅ dam they’re stuck bad timing — misread powers can still do a lot — the power had never mattered to him — so basically the scale is knives shields skinwalkers function etc just not encircling not burning the ilken not unleashing at the river perhaps a crown for her and Rowan but not a dress and body of flame not on her own still a grand gift still enough same with each of them — THE LORD OF THE NORTH — help lol why do they sound like elves in my brain — crying a better world — I KNEW THAT BOOK KNEW SOMETHING! See she’s sharing… also Elide and Dorian don’t know about the 13 and I’m dreading it

104. ✅ I officially forgive Darrow — LADY CARAVERRE (how do you say that places name)? — everyone just adopting Evangeline — I’d have liked to see it a better world — she’ll be there just hold on

105. ✅ this is where Elena was don’t you understand now? The LysAedion speech — ITS AELIN

106. ✅ the first time she’d been home — the cadre — the first time she’s been back — the signal — “to home.” — she wept with them and the call went out to the unknown like the chapters but more and Manon’s help and their power together and the line and there she is it worked there through — OUR QUEEN

107. ☑️ shell want to face them so he’ll “let” her but never alone “stay close” the way he said that doesn’t sound like a thought more like a quote perhaps her book plan a carranam of sorts ps i like that he’s calling the power reduced cause yeah it’s still pretty damn powerful it’s a full body shield — Gavriel be safe — “together” (the first ones that taught him that) — BROTHERS😭 — Lysandra reunion (always great enterance) it’s entrancing — SAM ITS A SAM REFERENCE IS SAM WATCHING ROWAN AELIN SAM AGH — lol that’s where she is — DONT BE DEAD FALKAN — DAN IT MORATH DAM AUTOCORRECY — CAN WE GET A FUCKING BREAK — and shit there’s still spiders and still no Maeve or Erowan like most books it’s like duh do abcd and ur find but legit I have no idea how they survive this like what — GAVRIEL PAPA KITTY

108. ✅ his father had come for HIM — Together. — NO NONONO I TAKE IT BACK GAVRIEL GET THE HELL BACK TO AEDION SARAH DONT YOU DARE DO IT NONONO — I think my heart just stopped and eyes bugged out and I’m never sleeping again how could you no Nono this isn’t happening not now not like that why why didn’t he get behind the gate how could you do this to Aedion no what the fuck no — don’t tell me Aelin will feel it — Rowan — no — I’m not even crying I mean I am but I’m in shock — what just happened — literally what just happened — why hasn’t Borte or Falkan gotten up yet? … no. — NO ROWAN SARAH DONT MAKE ME WATCH THIS PLEASE wait this isn’t horrible what’s going on Rowan your being weird wait is he alive no wait find her WHO WHO IS SHE FIND WHO nope making it hurt I take it back ow — the lion who fell for his son — ROWAN FOLLOWED HIM😭 he could’ve stayed — what’s Rowan saving his power for — his brother — I’m dead again — no the kharankui — where the hell is Aelin and what is she doing — FLY FAST😭

109. ✅ how many carranam can you do at once? Current theory the cadre all can and will by channeling enough power for Aelin to kill Maeve — she has a plan thank god and her and Ansel love it wait what why is Rowan not in the plan or is he is this the plan I am so confused — okay so Dorian let Maeve live when he could’ve killed her & gets 0 repercussions YET Aelin shows mercy & is betrayed by the gods she DIED to protect them from and she’s the “stupid cow” HOW IS THAT FAIR? I’m not saying I’m mad at Dorian I’m just saying the double standard is annoying af! I WAS FUCKING RIGHT THE SWORD IS ON FIRE I KNEW IT

110. ✅ THE LINE OF ALL LINES — what NO THIS IS NOT THE END — Aelin I AM A GOD Galathynius — together — the full circle for Lyria for her trusting her friends for her not being alone — who killed her parents solved — how are those powers still… is she channeling them thanks to Mab? — he trusts in them too — the road is open for fate a very Dorian style is he helping her fake the power

111. ✅ why would you hurt the ponies Sarah😭 — FALKANS ALIVE THANK GOD — YOU DO NOT YIELD YRENE — WHATS THE PLAN? — she has nothing left. We know. That’s why we need you — come on Aelin she can do it — THE LADY OF PERRANTHS IDEA — YOU ARE MY JOY 😭😭😭 HER HUSBAND HER DEAREST FRIEND 😭😭😭 the smell of home — Chaol progression — Dorian… what do you mean with your life YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FUCKING DIE IF THATS FORESHADOWING I CANT DO IT ELIDE DORIAN YRENE YOU ALL HAVE TO SURVIVE NO MORE CADRE DYING NO MORE WITCHES IF ONE MORE BIG CHARACTER DIES I SWEAR TO THE BANISHED GODS — it should be enough they’ve given enough — NONE OF YOU WILL BE NEXT ENOUGH ALREADY — that’s the problem she knows she can’t take them on and she did it anyway for them — the plan? — he found his better world already😭 — the fire is mostly color and light? — either way — damn it she knows — and she really just got them to turn on each other genius — truth — beat Maeve please — aren’t they both out of power? — She’s got no heir anymore

112. ✅ Every twelve is too soon — damn if she’s too close to the burn out — Maeve had seen the vision — what’s the goldryn trick? — the full circle of Yrene — I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE SWORD — line… wyrdgate? — WAKE UP NO ITS A TRICK NO WAY DONT YOU DARE LOST ME — how did Dorian not take that power? — you do not yield — dying is easy living is harder — freedom — then give it up Aelin leave to the woods and be happy — to Rowan. — counteracted oaths? — not real. — tired — spirit that could never be broken — THIS CHAPTER — NOOOOOO FENRYS ROWAN NO NO NO

113. ✅ CHAPTER 13 too soon — She set a wyrdmark brilliant girl — it’s Yrene westfall bitch — NO ITS DORIAN SAPHIRE AHHHH OUR KING YESSSSSSS DORIANNNNNN — YRENES SPEECH — how much ya wanna bet the bbs name is Hope? — not afraid😭 — LIFE GIVER WORLD MAKER — Caranam — Dorian’s power — AND ELENA — what was his name? — it is your own — sobbing😭 — which perspective — love hope sobbing they did it

114. ✅ I JUST FUCKING THREW OUT MY NECK AT THAT FIRST TLINE AN ILLUSION HOLY HELL I WAS SO INTO THE BOOK I AUDIBLY WENT WHAT AND NEARLY TIPPED OVER LAUGHING CRYING SCREAMING NOW — GRAB HIS HAND — If Fenrys dies nope can’t do it no way in hell — LYRIA — okay lilting so Scottish accent sounds right — what was that first vision perhaps hope — the fact that this is Lorcan’s — she didn’t know — Wyrdmarks awake — an anchor — the terror is its true — pain and joy — and hope — “the pain of parting because knowing how wonderful it had been” — Sam you taught them well — CARANAM DAM — But my mate does — together — GIVE FENRYS HIS POWER — the portal — WHO? — where they had been? — THE FAE — THE WOLVES — they remembered — COME ON OWL — they remembered the spiders she couldn’t erase it all had she helped with the king or is that all Valg — curious about Amren cross overs — the fae trapped in animal form — to return home — Fenrys — the threads — Lorcan why’d you say pretty face — look at me ; the fact she only ever gave him two orders each to save his life. — I AM HERE I AM WITH YOU😭 not alone — NO WHAT YES — all of them together — and the assassin gave it up for them — HIS POWER CAME BACK

115. ✅ LONG LIVE THE QUEEN — THE NAME HAD NEVER BEEN ABOUT HER POWER — the name of love😭 — AN OATH — OH MY GOD — THE RING — then go to hell — the true power is the friends we made along the way — they all died with her OH MY GOD is it over are they okay?! — KINGDOM OF ASH — YRENES NAME — ITS ALL GONNA BE OKAY NOW

116. ✅ its over now — life was just beginning — no Matthias vibes we got it the happy ending — home she’s finally home —

117. ✅ I look like literally this 🥹 because it’s Falkan she gets to meet him😭 I am human — we decide — Aelin too — Hello Princeling Hello Witchling 🥹😭🫶 you will not find them in this sky or any other🖤 sobbing toward the mate that would never return while the city celebrated — the candles — a river home — WIN ME BACK MY KINGDOM EVANGELINE — Aedion — Lys and Rowan — Queen of Shadows full circle — she knew the shield — still noble and kind😭 — the cadre — he knew the Terrasen prayer — why am I feeling afraid — one of thirteen lived — who? All. 🖤 — Live Elide, Live. — she’s brilliant — Thank yourself — STAY — A PROPOSAL — “I’ll think about it” I just laughed out loud😂 — I always thought his name was too ALL HAIL Lord Lorcan Lochan🤣 — better be a long life — the life binding he’ll give up immortality for her 😭 who would’ve known the warrior was such a romantic — FOR THEM.

118. ✅ you never stop teaching we never stop learning — you have found love and happiness that is all I ever wanted for you — Yrene saves the world Yrene sorry if I wasted your time wow I have never related so much to her😭😂😅 — status tag officially changed to Yrene Westfall — even with an ocean… always… that was for the reader too 😭 — THE NEW TORRE — wait who’s the owl? — who run the world Torre girls — bright as the oncoming dawn — the shift from survived the battle to survived the war — wait also where’s Cressida Blueblood? — Did Ansel make it? — what then? Go home. — THE FLOWER THAT BLOOMED WASNF THE KINGSFLAME IT WAS THE WASTES — be the bridge be the light — I’m so set on a happy ending yet jumping every-time anything happens yet sure we’re getting it yet truly afraid lol — but also never end ahhh just enjoying the joy here WAIT OMG — WHEN IRON MELTS WHEN FLOWERS SPRING FROM BLOOD — THEY BROKE THE CURSE — SHES GOING HOME — no she’s going home… to them — had they known — MY HEART AND SOUL “In thanks and in love. So they would know, so Asterin would know, in the realm where she and her hunter and child walked hand in hand, that they had made it. That they were going home.” — adopted humans lol the wolves did the reverse — FLEETFOOT — Fenrys twin scar much like Ren — goodbye one oath hello another — OUR COURT — the court ladies rambling in sync humor and plans — CACKLING VAUGHAN — the quest to find Vaughan I want that book — voting? — YESS SARAH PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE A SAY ON HOW THEYRE GOVERNED POLICIES THAT IMPACT THEM YASSSS QUEEN (literally) — WHAT KINGDOM? — THEIR EMISSARY he needs a book of healing… and maybe Lucien they could get along — the scars would only fade when he willed it — a city of art and theatres and Florine — flush with gold😂 — PRINCE OF DORANELLE FOR THE WIN — wait ummm she’s always Queen of the fae now? So many things to deal with! — the ACOFAS chapters my soul needed — her allies her friends — ANSEL! — she meant it it’s Sellenes — AH ANSEL AND ILIAS — a great deal of fun sounds lovely — no she was not alright yes it had destroyed her no she did not wish to talk about it — right there people right there that is friendship and love the person that sits in grief with you quietly heavily just sits and asks nothing else — I appreciate that nothing lost its weight in joy or sorrow it shows both the reality of it of after

119. ✅ this is the happy ending, I have a little time left, it’s time to read what there is one last time, and try not to jump everytime Sarah does anything lol here we go final 3 well 4 thankfully cause I’m not ready but also I’m so happy — WEDDING OR CORONATION? — just no funeral please — DOUBLE WEDDING COME ON I WANT THIS BOOK — fae queens west and north and East — the goal be Nesryn — okay I forgive you for never giving us a wedding this was pretty damn great — the lady (autocorrect said last which is also true) of Perranth the lady of caraverre — and began her final walk home. (Gonna have to go google what people think this dress is cause it sounds amazing also the silver like Rowan) — colors science and wow what an adaptation this would make — and it was not a weight it was joyful — I Aelin Ashryver Whitethorn Galathynius — “Could have sworn she felt them all standing there with her, those whom she had loved with her heart of wildfire. Whose stories were again inked upon her skin.” — burden and gift — the final oath in her moment for him too — the same word he gave Lysandra this life and all others — THE LITTLE FOLK — “The Fairies Queen of the West” — double crown — a Star — “No longer an assassin. No longer a rogue princess And when Aelin lifted her head to survey the cheering crowd, when she smiled, Queen of Terrasen and the Faerie Queen of the West, she burned bright as a star.” — her court — OH HELL YES GIRL POWER IM NOT CRYING NO IM FULL ON SOBBING HAPPILY — the vision… true. — “All the women who had fought by her side, or from afar. Who had bled and sacrificed and never given up hope that this day might come.” — she really wrote this for the girlies😭

120. ✅ I need to know more about these costumes — Aelin got to dance again🥹 ROWAN CAN DANCE DAMMM — WHY ARE ALL MY SPOUSES FICTIONAL — did she pick black and gold to resemble the dragon dress — what’s Dorian’s plan? — I need more Dorian Sartaq bro time — WHY HAS THERE BEEN NO SPIN OFF BOOK — so will Rowan ever be king — TWO DOZEN two thirteens — all hail the empress — okay final baby name bets: hope, Gavriel, or Dorian. — the final goodbyes… we won the war and we shall go home — what an adventure — his mothers letter — the mess of Hollin😅😬 wanting her to read it first lol — we’re going to have to build a bigger house — why am I crying all of this is getting me the last time I’ll see these characters but it’s so happy and beautiful and perfect — Yrene made for many much better meetings — Yrene is like a living Sun — superpowered sunshine — the long road back together — you could just marry each other it would be easier if you didn’t have to pretend — gods I LOVE YRENE — looking forward to tomorrow

121. ✅ THE FINAL CHAPTER … everyone’s told me the final line parallels the first? — the farewell… yes Sarah I know this part will not be easy — all but Rolfe lol she got stuck with the one person —and Darrow and Hafiza lived that’s progress though of all people why did you take Rens person AND Manon’s everyone? — The many young queens — I love Ansel and Aelin they win the most besties from near murder award — their trade zar — the three of them again — Aelin don’t you dare pull a Feyre and die in labor… Yrene your an Angel I love you — seriously where is there ACOSF — we’re a long way from Innish but lost no longer — the besties — Dorian and Rowan — the way they all became friend family all of it — just as it began it ends with them and I’m sobbing along — shattered now but not forever not forever — story after story about the lion — THE BOOK I WANT — he’s bringing her chocolate cake😭 — time, true — "I'm going to have a terrible headache from all this crying, and you're not helping." MOOD😂 — tell me tomorrow — the beauty in the fact those words exist at all — The fact it opened and ended with the prince but of course her epilogue — TO WHATEVER END😭 — some men say pretty other says eternity opening shining gloriously lovely — the final happy running off together

Epilogue: ✅ PURE POETRY A BETTER WORLD — she went to Ellywe and kept the letter like Yrene — exhausted but happy — to Aelin’s eternal amusement list — AH A WEDDING wait Aedion was Wendlyn not Terrasen? — the fae repair man— the kingsflame was blooming — wow.

And that’s it folks… there will be many posts to come… but for now that’s tomorrow… thank you fandom and Sarah and series… I’m gonna go giggle and cry now because this is one of the best series I have ever read and this is its end but the nice thing about stories they never end they just get to be reread and enjoyed with the true friends we made along the way cheesy as it is.

P. S. wow I’m glad I read TAB earlier cause that would hurt so bad to go read now😂 so my recommendation to fellow first time readers🤣 … Also while I’m here few things: did we ever find out what happened to Cressida Blueblood? … do they ever have their children? — Why is there so much fan art? And I have so many questions now I thought it would go through the future but it didn’t have to because that was enough but I want an ACOFAS but also it’s perfect as is but also between traveling Fenrys, finding Vaughan, Manorian healing, the Cadres tales, fae children to come, etc. it feels like she set it up for another but maybe CC will bring that so who knows! But yeah I’m happy processing sleep deprived but yeah WELCOME TO A BETTER WORLD FOLKS