Suren

SPOILER WARNING

* The Queen of Nothing
* The Stolen Heir

**Suren**, also known as **Wren** and **Queen Suren**, is a faerie and the child queen of the Court of Teeth. She is the daughter of Lord Jarel and Lady Nore.

## Physical Description

Suren has blue skin, the color of veins or a corpse. Her large, hungry eyes are mossy green. Her hair is a blue only slightly darker than her skin. She has shark-sharp teeth. Despite her thin build, she is very strong. Suren has pointed ears and a pointy chin.

As a child, she wore a crown of icicles, and a magical golden bridle that was placed on her by Lord Jarel as a means of controlling her. It was removed by Jude Duarte, but left scars on her face. Her nails are bitten short. Her voice is thin and rough from disuse and screaming due to the abuse she endured.

## Personality

Suren seems to have leaning towards cruelty, possibly due to the cruelty she faced at the hands of her parents. When Jude disbanded the Court of Teeth, she told Lady Nore that if she attempted to defy Jude's command, then Queen Suren could punish her in whatever way she sees fit. This made Suren smile in "a way that is not funny at all." Jude considered that perhaps Suren was being restrained for fear of what she might do if she were not.

As an eighteen-year-old, Suren has grown into a strong, independent, but traumatized woman. She wants nothing to do with Faerieland. Her education in Faerie was poor and her human education was inconsistent, but she has tried to teach herself by stealing books. Due to her time in the Court of Teeth, she grew skilled at breaking curses and is very good at hiding.

## Biography

### *The Queen of Nothing*

Jude saw Queen Suren at the war camp of the Court of Teeth with Madoc and Oriana, when she was pretending to be her twin sister Taryn. Seeing Suren, Jude recalled the Living Council warning that Courts were evading swearing fealty by hiding their children as changelings in the mortal world, then elevating them to rulers. Jude wonders if that is what happened to Suren and why she was wearing an enchanted bridle.

Queen Suren is seen with Lady Nore and Lord Jarel when Jude addresses the individual political leaders of Elfhame, after Cardan has been cursed into a snake. She appears at the official coronation of Queen Jude and King Cardan, where Oak asks for her freedom after Jude disbands the Court of Teeth. Jude forces Lady Nore to swear fealty to Queen Suren, and Queen Suren swears fealty to Queen Jude and King Cardan.

### *The Stolen Heir*

In a flashback, Suren remembers how she first arrived in the mortal realm when she was a toddler. When she was nine years old, Lord Jarel and Lady Nore bring her back to Faerieland. She spends two years being tortured by them in the Court of Teeth before she flees back to the mortal realm after the Battle of the Serpent.

It's been eight years since Suren has been living feral in the woods in the mortal realm. She has been helping mortals escape from foolish bargains when Oak saves her from the storm hag Bogdana. Oak, Wren, Tiernan, and Hyacinth embark on a quest to the Court of Teeth.

## Relationships

### Oak

Suren and Oak were childhood friends, but Suren left Elfhame and Oak stayed. Suren's parents betrothed Suren and Oak, but after losing the Battle of the Serpent, their betrothal was ended.