Where the When the Moon Hatched family tree is printed
The When the Moon Hatched family tree that Sarah A. Parker made herself is printed in the book. Two book bloggers place it at the back and warn that it gives away the plot. This Splendid Shambles advises readers not to look at it, for spoilers, and Booktrovert Reader adds that the author herself told her not to look.67 Neither names the edition or the page.
This page does not copy that tree. Its own chart hides each reveal behind a story point, so a reader halfway through can stop where they are.
The publisher’s copy is short on family. Harper Voyager says that Kaan Vaegor, crushed by the loss of his great love, hunts the world for answers.1 The Avon copy makes Raeve an assassin of the rebel group Fíur du Ath and has Kaan find her in the prison of the capital.3 No review or interview opened for this page states a family tie, so every family line below rests on fan guides and recaps and is marked as a community source only.
The Burn, the Fade and the Shade
The author names the three parts of her world in an interview with The Fantasy Hive, the Burn, the Fade and the Shade, where the Moonplume dragons live.5 The book was first self-published early in 2024, and Grimdark Magazine reports that Harper Voyager in Britain and Avon in the United States took it up soon after.204 The British paperback of 8 May 2025 runs to 576 pages.2
The fan guides give each realm a Vaegor king. Kaan rules the Burn, Cadok the Fade and Tyroth the Shade.1014 The Shade was also home to the Neváns, who guard the Aether Stone.15
Ostern and Kovina Vaegor and their four children
At the top of the Vaegor side stand Ostern Vaegor, the late King of the Burn, and Kovina Vaegor. A fan guide by Esta Pinto calls Ostern the father of Kaan, Veya, Cadok and Tyroth and Kovina his partner, and the family list of Ink & Imaginings writes the same four children under the two of them.109 Recaptains and Paranormal Book Summaries both have Ostern plan to marry Elluin to his son Tyroth.1718
The four children are Kaan, Cadok, Tyroth and Veya. Veya is the youngest and the only daughter.1114 Kaan killed his father, for a wrong done to someone he loved, as Recaptains and SoBrief report.1719 Esta Pinto records Kovina as dead, so both parents carry a cross.12
Cadok is married to Dothea, Queen of the Fade, and their son is Prince Turun, as three fan sources agree.14109 The sources differ on the order of the brothers, so the chart gives none. One guide calls Kaan the youngest son and two call him the eldest.131914
Ahdrik and Eudora Neván and the Aether Stone
The Neván side is smaller. Ahdrik and Eudora Neván are the parents of Elluin and Haedeon, as the family list of Ink & Imaginings and the character guide of Esta Pinto both give it.910 Haedeon is the older brother, the former Prince of the Shade.10
The Aether Stone runs through this family. Fantasy Fangirls says the stone is passed down and guarded by the Neván bloodline, lately on the mother’s side, and Ink & Imaginings traces it through Eudora, Elluin and Kyzari.159 In the diaries Eudora wears a diadem that seems to hurt her.17
Paranormal Book Summaries and Recaptains report that Elluin’s parents and Haedeon are poisoned.1817 The chart marks Ahdrik and Eudora as dead and records Haedeon as poisoned with them, as Book 1 tells it, without following him into the second book.
Raeve, Elluin Neván and the two kings
The book is told by Raeve and by diary entries from the youth of a woman long gone, as Grimdark Magazine puts it.4 The diaries are Elluin’s.1617
Raeve is Elluin. Books That Slay says it outright, and Recaptains follows the characters as they ask why Raeve looks like Elluin, who is dead.1617 Paranormal Book Summaries notes that Raeve is Elluin’s middle name, and Fantasy Fangirls gives the full name as Elluin Raeve Neván.1814 The chart draws Raeve apart until the last chapters, where she merges into Elluin.
Elluin is the great love Kaan lost, in every fan source that names her.12016 She was bound in marriage to his brother Tyroth. Ostern forced her by threatening Kaan, Veya and her dragon Slátra, and Books That Slay says she was already pregnant with Kaan’s child.191816 The chart draws the forced binding as a dashed line from Tyroth to Elluin and keeps the couple line for Kaan and Elluin.
Kyzari, raised by one brother and born to another
Kyzari enters the story as Kaan’s niece and the daughter of the King of the Shade.17 Near the end of Book 1 the reader learns that she is the daughter of Kaan and Elluin. Books That Slay calls it a later revelation, and Paranormal Book Summaries places it in the chapter where Veya’s journals are recovered.1618 Ink & Imaginings sums up the position at the close of the book. Kaan is her father, though both Kaan and Kyzari believe that Tyroth is.8
The chart shows both ties. A dotted line labelled Raised as his daughter runs from Tyroth to Kyzari from the first story point, and her parent lines to Kaan and Elluin appear only at the last chapters. SoBrief adds that Kyzari was raised as Tyroth’s heir, and the line carries that note.19
Arkyn, the Scavenger King, in the epilogue
The last reveal of Book 1 comes in its epilogue. Arkyn, the Scavenger King, is a son of Ostern Vaegor born outside his marriage. Recaptains calls him the secret child of King Ostern, SoBrief a secret half-brother of the three Vaegor kings, and a Fantasy Fangirls quiz quotes the epilogue, where none of his half-brothers knows that he exists.171915 Ink & Imaginings names his mother only as an unnamed woman, and Fantasy Fangirls adds that the author’s own tree confirms him as Ostern’s son by an unknown woman.915
The chart draws Arkyn from the epilogue only, with his mother as an unnamed woman.
Where the fan sources disagree
Some recaps of the book contradict each other, and a few contradict themselves. The table sets each reading beside the other and says how the chart treats it.
| Question | One reading | The other reading | On the chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyroth and Cadok | Brothers, sons of Ostern and Kovina, in Esta Pinto, Ink & Imaginings and Paranormal Book Summaries chapter 47 | Tyroth the son of King Cadok of the Burn, in one line of Paranormal Book Summaries chapter 37 | Brothers |
| Tyroth and Kaan | Brothers, in Books That Slay, Esta Pinto and Ink & Imaginings | Tyroth as Kaan’s father, in Owl Recommends | Brothers |
| Twins | Cadok and Tyroth are twins, in Fantasy Fangirls and Esta Pinto | Brothers with no twin named, in the other sources | No twin mark |
| Kaan’s place | The youngest son, in the Fantasy Fangirls guide to Book 1 | The eldest son, in SoBrief and the Fantasy Fangirls guide to Book 2 | No order of birth |
| Haedeon’s name | Haedeon, in Ink & Imaginings | Hadeon or Haedon, in the two Esta Pinto pages | Haedeon |
The summary that makes Tyroth the son of Cadok also calls Cadok King of the Burn, and it calls Tyroth a son of Ostern at chapter 24 and a brother of Cadok at chapter 47.18 The chart follows the reading the sources share.
Each line on the chart and its source
The table sorts every line on the chart by where it is stated. Only the first rests on the publisher. Every other line is a community source only.
| Line | Sources | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Kaan Vaegor lost his great love | Harper Voyager | Publisher |
| Raeve is Elluin Neván | Books That Slay, Recaptains, Paranormal Book Summaries, Fantasy Fangirls | Community source only |
| Ahdrik and Eudora are the parents of Elluin and Haedeon | Ink & Imaginings, Esta Pinto | Community source only |
| Ostern and Kovina are the parents of Kaan, Cadok, Tyroth and Veya | Esta Pinto, Ink & Imaginings, Recaptains, Paranormal Book Summaries | Community source only |
| Cadok and Dothea are the parents of Turun | Fantasy Fangirls, Esta Pinto, Ink & Imaginings | Community source only |
| Elluin was bound in marriage to Tyroth | Books That Slay, Paranormal Book Summaries, Fantasy Fangirls | Community source only |
| Kyzari is the daughter of Kaan and Elluin | Books That Slay, Ink & Imaginings, SoBrief, Fantasy Fangirls | Community source only |
| Kyzari is raised as Tyroth’s daughter | Recaptains, Ink & Imaginings, SoBrief | Community source only |
| Arkyn is a son of Ostern by an unnamed woman | Recaptains, Ink & Imaginings, SoBrief, Fantasy Fangirls | Community source only |
How to read this chart of the Vaegors and Neváns
A square is a man and a circle is a woman, and Elluin carries the double outline. A line between two symbols is a couple, and lines down from it lead to the children. A cross is a death. The red outline gathers House Vaegor and the blue outline House Neván.
The dashed purple line is the binding of Elluin to Tyroth, and the dotted brown arrow is Tyroth raising Kyzari as his daughter.
Open this chart in the editor to add your own notes as you read, or compare the Throne of Glass family tree and the Targaryen family tree.
Questions about the When the Moon Hatched family tree
Who are Kyzari’s parents in When the Moon Hatched
Kyzari is the daughter of Kaan and Elluin, raised as the daughter and heir of Tyroth. Book 1 reveals it near the end. The fan recaps state it, and no publisher source does.16919
People and sources
A page of its own lists all 15 characters on the chart, each with a short note and the sources for it, and the 20 numbered sources this article cites. It also gives this page as a reference in the APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard styles, ready to copy.