The Throne of Glass family tree of Aelin and the royal lines

In Throne of Glass the assassin Celaena Sardothien is brought out of the salt mines to fight for the place of the King’s Champion.^4,1 At the end of Crown of Midnight Chaol Westfall, the Captain of the Guard, learns that she is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, the lost heir of Terrasen whose parents were murdered when she was a child.^5,2

The Throne of Glass family tree therefore has a gap in its first position. The chart shows Aelin under the name Celaena with no royal line above her, and only from Crown of Midnight does it join her to Rhoe Galathynius and Evalin Ashryver, her father and mother.^5,6

In Heir of Fire she travels to Wendlyn, the land of her mother’s people, and comes to accept that she is Queen of Terrasen.^6,2 Chaol, who loved her in the first two novels, and Dorian Havilliard, who courted her in the first, stand beside her on the chart with lines rather than blood.^4,5

The royal line of Terrasen begins with Brannon Galathynius, the first king, and the novels tie it to Mala Fire-Bringer, the goddess whose fire Aelin carries.^6,10 The many kings between Brannon and Aelin are not named, so the Throne of Glass family tree joins Brannon to Rhoe with a dotted line of kin rather than inventing a chain of names.

The last king before the fall of Terrasen was Orlon Galathynius, the uncle of Aelin, and Aelin was his heir.^5,7 When Adarlan conquered Terrasen, Orlon, Rhoe and Evalin were killed, which is why a child of eight could be hidden as an assassin for ten years.^5,6

Evalin Ashryver came from the Fae and half-Fae line of Wendlyn, and the Ashryvers trace that line to Mab, a Fae queen known as the sister of Maeve.⁶ That double descent from Brannon and Mab is what the full name Aelin Ashryver Galathynius records.

Aedion Ashryver is Aelin’s cousin through her mother’s family and was raised to serve in the armies of Adarlan. Aelin frees him in Queen of Shadows.^7,2 His father is Gavriel, a warrior of Maeve’s cadre, a link that Queen of Shadows and Empire of Storms bring into the open.^7,8 Aedion marries the shapeshifter Lysandra by the end of Kingdom of Ash.¹⁰ In the same book Gavriel dies in front of the gates while he shields his son and his son’s people, and the chart marks his death at that point.³

Adarlan’s royal house begins with Gavin Havilliard and his wife Elena Galathynius, a daughter of Brannon and the first Queen of Adarlan.^4,2 Elena appears to Celaena as a ghost in Throne of Glass and sets her an errand.⁴ Her marriage means that the Havilliards, too, descend from Brannon, so the Throne of Glass family tree joins the two enemy houses at its second row.

In the time of the novels the King of Adarlan reigns with Queen Georgina. Their sons are Dorian, the Crown Prince, and his younger brother Hollin.⁴ At the end of Heir of Fire the King puts his son in a collar of Wyrdstone, and in Queen of Shadows Dorian is possessed by a Valg prince. Aelin and Dorian break the King’s power, the King dies at the end of the book, and Dorian becomes King of Adarlan.^6,7,2

Maeve rules Doranelle as its Fae Queen and is known as the sister of Mab, from whom the Ashryvers descend.⁶ Kingdom of Ash shows that she is Valg, so the dotted line of kin between the two queens ends at that book.³ In Heir of Fire she sends Rowan Whitethorn, a Fae prince of her cadre, to train Aelin in Wendlyn.⁶ By Kingdom of Ash Rowan and Aelin are married, and the novel calls her his mate and wife.^10,2

At the end of Empire of Storms Maeve takes Aelin prisoner. In Kingdom of Ash Aelin escapes, and the last battle destroys Maeve and the dark king Erawan.^8,10,2 The red zigzag between Maeve and Aelin on the Throne of Glass family tree is the oldest quarrel on it, a queen of Doranelle against the heir of Mab’s line.

A square is a man, a circle is a woman and a cross marks a death. Solid lines join parents and children whom the novels name. Dotted lines join kin across generations the novels do not name, such as Brannon and Rhoe, Elena and the King of Adarlan, or Mab and Evalin.

Each line has its own ring, green for Galathynius, orange for the Ashryvers, red for Havilliard and grey for the Fae. Chaol and Lysandra stand outside the royal rings. The pink lines are love, the dashed blue lines are friendship, and the red zigzags are the King’s hold over Dorian and Maeve’s war on Aelin.

To build a Throne of Glass family tree of your own, or to add the witch clans and the southern court, open the chart in the editor from this page or start from the story charts.