The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

by Samantha Shannon

Queendom of Inys

great continent that held the West a...

Ashen...

sirrah.”

Old english. Sire

woman in a wide-brimmed black hat

“Estina Melaugo.

Vazuva.”

King Sigoso.

day the House of Vetalda announced its allegiance to the Nameless One.”

I hear there was a great fire just before the birds flew out. Lavender fields used to grow near the capital, but they burned.”

snake pit.

European british. How lothbrok was killed

I’ve no personal dislike of Queen Sabran, but I come from a superstitious part of Yscalin, and there is something odd about the Berethnets. Each queen only having one child, always a daughter, and they all look so similar . . . I don’t know. Sounds like sorcery to—”

High Western.”

A wyrm. A monstrous, four-legged wyrm, over two hundred feet long from its snout to the tip of its tail. This was no wyverling prowling for livestock. This was a breed that had not been seen in centuries, since the last hours of the Grief of Ages. Mightiest of the Draconic creatures. The High Westerns, largest and most brutal of all the dragons, the dread lords of wyrmkind. One of them had woken.

standing in a dark gold pool.

Oh please. No way he can see the gold. Just say pool of his own maming. Or piss

Harlowe

“Fýredel, the right wing of the Nameless One, appears to have woken from his sleep.”

told the gloomy tale of the Never Queen,

Jannart.

Jan.

He shut his eyes, and he was back to that autumn morning when they had met for the first time in the rose garden of Brygstad Palace...

Edvart the...

“Muste,”

Panaya

Red Prince

have defied the Great Edict.”

ankle

It mentioned they cracked his knee but teice now mentions his ankle...

Governor of Cape Hisan.

For the love of the Saint, save my books, Panaya!”

Famous last words?

They

Names!!

Lady Arbella Glenn

Linora

sweetlemon

Just say lemon

the Priory.

pray to the Dawnsinger.”

House of Si...

The Ersyr did not adhere to the Six Virtues. Neither did its neighbor,

the Domain of Lasia,

despite its important place in the Inysh f...

Halgalant,

Shortening of halogaland?

Arch Sanctarian

Ead had never followed the Dawnsinger. Though she had Ersyri blood, she had not been born in the Ersyr and had not often set foot in it. Her true creed was known only to the Priory.

“Zāla.”

Uluma Mountains,”

Ead felt that familiar twist of irritation. It was hypocrisy at its finest for the Inysh to use Lasia as a cornerstone of their founding legend, only to deride its people as heretics.

peach

Not a sweetpeach?

Marian Square.

There were two kinds of heretic in Inys. A scattered few still followed the primordial religion of Inys, a form of nature worship that had been practiced before the foundation of the House of Berethnet, in the days when knighthood was still young and the country had been haunted by the Lady of the Woods. They could recant or be imprisoned. Then there were those who prophesied the return of the Nameless One. For the last two years, these doomsingers had trickled to Inys from Yscalin and preached in the cities for as long as they could. They were burned by decree of the

Duchess of J...

Lady Igrain