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Mare Molly Barrow is a Red and part of the Scarlet Guard. Like her brother, Shade, she possess a superhuman ability due to a mutation.
Who is Mare Barrow?
100
Silver champions will fight in the arena.
What happens every First Friday?
100
Mare is given a false background story to pass her off as a Silver, and undergoes training to perfect her skills.
How does Mare hide her background story?
100
The earring was a gift from her older brother Shade after he got sent to war, he gave it to her and her sister Gisa to mean to never forget them.
What do the one earring in Mares ear represent?
100
She's given a post as a server. She is to serve the royals and nobles during Queenstrial.
What happens to Mare after she gets summoned to the palace at Summerton?
200
Gisa
Who is the little sister of Mare Barrow?
200
A Red medic saved him, replacing the collapsed lung with a device that could breathe for him.
How did Mare's dad survive in the war?
200
She asked a payment in full, to equivalent of thousand crowns.
What did Farley ask as a payment for Mare's favor?
200
Cal helps Mare sneak out of the palace and visit the Stilts. She discovers that her brother Shade tried to desert the army, and was executed. On the way back, she meets Kilorn and a few of his friends. Mare joins the Scarlet Guard.
Who does Mare get helped from and where too?
200
She’ll be conscripted into the army, to fight the Lakelands.
What happens when Mare turns eighteen?
300
are those born with red blood. Silver Elite believe that Reds are an inferior species because the average Red is without superhuman abilities. However, Reds whose blood has mutated do have superhuman abilities and these abilities are different from the abilities that the Silvers possess.
Who are the Red's?
300
The King forces her into the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons.
How does Mare hide her superpower ability's?
300
Mare steals what she can to help her family survive.
Why does Mare have to steal?
300
The royal palace itself where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a superhuman ability she didn't know she had.
Where does Mare find out that she has superhuman ability's?
300
Titanos
Mare is supposedly part of what house (the house that the king and queen assigned to her)?
400
Maven Calore is the current King of Norta. He is Cal's younger brother and the only child of Queen Elara to King Tiberias VI. Like his older brother and father, he has the ability to control fire.
Who is Maven Calore and his part in the story?
400
The Silver Houses are composed of various clans of elite Silvers whose daughters can participate at the Queenstrial to become part of the Royals. Each House has their own colors and abilities for distinction. Although each House possesses different abilities and are considered higher than common Silvers, there are some Silver Houses that belong to the Low Houses, while the majority belong to the High Houses
What are the Silver houses?
400
Mare is shot during the escape, but gets healed by Julian’s friend.
What happens to Mare after they helped the prisoner escaped?
400
Mare is given training in different areas – grooming, combat, and traditional knowledge.
Where is Mares training held at?
400
Upon hitting the ground, she knows she’s got to disappear and escapes through a hatch in the ground. She is pursued, and caught by Cal.
What happens when Mare powers goes off and hits the shield?
500
also known as Cal, is the eldest child of Tiberias VI and the heir to the throne of Norta. As a member of House Calore, he controls and manipulates fire.
Who is Tiberias Calore VII and his role in the story?
500
House Arven House Blonos House Calore House Carros House Eagrie House Gliacon House Greco House Haven House Iral House Jacos House Laris House Lerolan House Macanthos House Marinos House Merandus House Nolle House Nornus House Osanos House Provos House Rhambos House Samos House Skonos House Thany House Titanos House Tyros House Viper House Welle
What are all of the Silver houses?
500
When they don’t give up their secrets, they use torture. Ptolemus Samos, Evangeline’s brother and one of the targets, survives and kills Tristan, one of the prisoners.
What happens to the prisoners when they don't talk?
500
They discover that Mare can produce electrical energy.
What does Mare discover when shes training?
500
While there, news comes of a series of terrorist attacks in the capital and government buildings. A Red rebel society called the Scarlet Guard claims responsibility for the attacks.
What happens to Mare and Gisa after they go to Summerton?