Velaris was known as the city of Starlight. Velaria, born on Starfall and named after the city her mother adored, was that starlight incarnate.
Trapped Under the Mountain beside her brother, Velaria endured Amarantha's cruelty in silence, her fire dimmed, her spirit fractured, holding desperately to the darkness as if the shadows could protect her.
Azriel, the Night Court's shadowsinger-silent, steady, and utterly devoted. As Velaria grapples with the weight of her trauma, Azriel stands by her side-not to fix her, but to love her through every step of healing.
In a world rebuilding from ruin and preparing for an incoming war, theirs is a story of quiet strength, fierce love, and the slow, beautiful rise from darkness into starlight.
Azriel x Rhysand's Sister
This story will follow the plot of the books and contain flashbacks to years before. Please see the trigger warnings below, nothing more than the ACTOAR books already explore.
Trigger Warnings:
Violence
Torture
SA
Iraden has lived in Velaris her whole life, in the silvery pools gifted to the Sirens by Rhysand's father, the High Lord before him. It wasn't the only thing she had to thank the High Lords of the Night Court for. For 100 years Iraden and her mother managed to keep her a secret, but what happens when Azriel, the Spymaster of the Night Court, and one of Rhysand's right hands, stumbles into where she works one day, a fast and unusual relationship taking root.
Azriel is in desperate need of grounding, having drifted so far away in the past 50 years after the wars that he cannot find his way back. Iraden is in desperate need of freedom after spending her entire life hidden from her true nature, and her father, Rhysand, who is beginning to worry that Nyx isn't taking on the particular glow that the High Lord's heir should take.
Will Iraden embrace who she was always meant to be? Will she dare to dream that big?