![]() She decimates Hybern's forces by magically devouring the life force from them, literally, turning them into mummified "husks". She and the other two Old Gods are the first to march into Hybern's ranks. Stryga wears Ianthe's circlet into battle, but carries no other weapons, nor did she wear any armor. That feast bought Feyre some forgiveness from Stryga for her earlier theft of Rhysand's mother's ring.ĭuring the final battle with Hybern, Stryga appears in front of the combined Fae Court armies next to her twin brother, the Bone Carver, who she has not seen in millennia, and another monster known as Bryaxis. The Weaver eats Ianthe and the soldiers, and takes Ianthe's circlet as a prize for herself. Soon after that meeting, Feyre appears at Stryga's cottage unexpectedly, leading Ianthe and two Hybern soldiers into the Weaver's cottage and trapping them inside Stryga's home. Stryga accepts the deal and the pact is sealed with both Rhysand and Stryga receiving magical tattoos on their left forearms. Helion makes a deal on behalf of Rhysand: to free Stryga from her imprisonment in the Middle if she agrees to fight for him against Hybern. He sends Helion, High Lord of the Day Court, to act as his emissary to the Weaver, as Stryga knew him from before (that meeting was not described in the text, but the implication is that Rhysand and her do not get along). Rhysand has the idea that asking for help from the Old Gods in their war with Hybern might be their only chance of success. She discovers it is actually made up of scalped heads of hair from Stryga's victims. Feyre then scrambles up the remaining length of the chimney and escapes onto the cottage's thatched roof. The brick smashes into the Weaver's face, crushing bone and causing a spray of black blood. She becomes stuck inside the chimney, and hurls a loosened brick down at Stryga, who is attempting to come up after her. Specifically, she notices that Feyre is "like all, but unlike all" as a result of having been Made by the High Lords of Prythian.įeyre escapes Stryga's clutches with the ring only after setting fire to the Weaver's stash of tanned skins and woven hair, dashing up the cottage's chimney, and using it to crawl to freedom on the roof. The Weaver can not see Feyre, as she is blind, but she smells Feyre and senses her magical soul. When Feyre finds and takes Rhysand's mother's ring from one of the cottage shelves, Stryga stops singing and weaving, realizing a thief has come into her home and stole something. When she first sets eyes upon the Weaver, Stryga is singing and working at her loom, weaving soft, white yarn that Feyre instinctively knew was not animal in nature. From the ceiling hung all manner of chains, dead birds, dresses, ribbons, gnarled bits of wood, strands of pearls. ![]() Inside, Stryga's cottage is filled with "bric-a-brac: books, shells, dolls, herbs, pottery, shoes, crystals, more books, jewels. When Feyre first approaches the quiet, lovely cottage in the woods, she thinks the place seems harmless enough-a location one might stop if one needed shelter for the night or aid. The purpose of the test was to see if Feyre was able to discern hidden magical items, so that they might be able to find the half of the Book of Breathings when they infiltrate the Summer Court. Any thieves on their behalf either do not return or are never sent, for fear of it leading back to their High Lord.įeyre Archeron is tasked by Rhysand to retrieve his mother's ring for him from the Weaver. Most of her treasures will never be retrieved, because the High Lords do not dare be caught, thanks to the laws that protect her and her wrath. High Lords are not to interfere with her, no matter the direness of the situation. Thus, Stryga became the "Weaver in the Wood", unable to leave that parcel of land of her own free will, imprisoned with only herself for company. Somehow, this female Fae managed to trick Stryga into "diminishing her power and becoming confined to the Middle" in a small cottage in the middle of a forest. It is implied that part of the worship she enjoyed involved living sacrifices made to her.Īt some point, a lone female Fae warrior decided to put an end to Stryga's reign of terror, as well as the reign of horror created by her two brothers. She used the deaths of others to keep her body young by feasting on their life forces. Stryga "delighted" in this worship, and reveled in it. The three siblings, who were immensely powerful by this world's standards, were set up as 'gods' by the ancient Fae living in the world, and they were then worshiped out of fear by those ancient Fae. In the time before the Cauldron, the Mother, and the creation of Prythian, Stryga crossed dimensions from another world (the text states that she "fell" into their world from her own, along with her twin brother, the Bone Carver, and their older brother, Koschei).
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