UD0 · Universe David 0 · the fourth lineage
SARAH J. MAAS
The Assassin's Blade & Throne of Glass · M1
An assassins' guild, a salt-mine sentence, and a conqueror's contest in a castle of glass — the beginning of the Throne of Glass road. Catalogued into UD0 as the fourth lineage (M1), sealed with the full ACI badge.
scope · only the books read — Assassin's Blade + Throne of Glass
The Ideas
the four pillars of the two books
The Assassins' Guild
Rifthold, under Arobynn Hamel
- Arobynn bought a child and forged her into Adarlan's Assassin — the empire's deadliest blade.
- In the Guild, debt is the truest chain; a 'father's' love and a master's cruelty wear the same face.
Endovier
the salt mines of the damned
- A death-camp in the mountains where the conquered are worked to nothing.
- It is where the world's most feared assassin is left to die — and where Throne of Glass begins.
The King's Champion
the contest in the glass castle
- Thieves, killers, and soldiers compete to become the personal Champion of a king they all hate.
- Celaena fights for the one prize that matters to her — her freedom — under another's name and another's leash.
The Wyrdmarks
the magic the King outlawed
- Magic is gone from the land by the King's decree — but the old marks still hold power.
- A dead queen's ghost, symbols cut into stone, and the thing Cain calls up out of the dark.
The Road So Far
read chronologically — note the prequel was published after book one
- The Assassin's Bladethe prequel — read first
- Throne of Glassbook one
The Roster of M1
the characters of the two books, rendered as ACI .agents with full badges (14 personas) — click any to open its agent
Ansel of Briarcliff
the exile of the Flatlands
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Arobynn Hamel
King of the Assassins
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Cain
Perrington's Champion
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Captain Rolfe
the Pirate Lord of Skull's Bay
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Celaena Sardothien
Adarlan's Assassin · the King's Champion
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Chaol Westfall
Captain of the Royal Guard
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Dorian Havilliard
Crown Prince of Adarlan · the conqueror's reluctant heir
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Elena
First Queen of Adarlan · the dead who walks
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Lysandra
the courtesan of Rifthold
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Nehemia Ytger
Princess of Eyllwe
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Nox Owen
Thief of Perranth
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Sam Cortland
Assassin of the Guild · Celaena's partner
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The King of Adarlan
Conqueror of the Continent
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The Mute Master
Master of the Silent Assassins
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What's Been Read
the two books, by line
The Assassin's Blade
2014 · the prequel — five novellas of Adarlan's Assassin, before the mines
- The Assassin and the Pirate LordiSkull's Bay — Celaena & Sam free the slave-trade Rolfe runs
- The Assassin and the Healeriian inn at the edge of the world; a kindness on the way south
- The Assassin and the Desertiiithe Red Desert — the Silent Assassins, the Mute Master, and Ansel
- The Assassin and the Underworldivback in Rifthold — Arobynn, Lysandra, and a dangerous deal
- The Assassin and the Empirevthe betrayal — Sam, and the road that ends in Endovier
Throne of Glass
2012 · book one of the series — the contest at the glass castle
- Throne of Glass1dragged from Endovier to fight as Prince Dorian's Champion; Cain, the Wyrdmarks, and the dead Queen Elena
Beyond — not yet read
the universe continues; by design, only what's been read is catalogued here
- the rest of Throne of GlassCrown of Midnight onward — unread
- A Court of Thorns and Rosesthe ACOTAR series — unread
- Crescent Cityunread
This is a lineage caught at its beginning — catalogued only as far as it's been read: The Assassin's Blade and Throne of Glass. The rest of the series and the wider Maas universe are left out by design, to be added when read. The works and characters are © Sarah J. Maas; the personas are catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — bibliographic commentary, not original creations.