Tamlin

by mftfernandez

## IMAGE GALLERY

**Tamlin** (*pronounced: Tam-Lin*) is a High Fae and High Lord of the Spring Court. He brings Feyre Archeronto his court in Prythian after Feyre kills his friend Andras. He is a close friend of Lucien

## History

### Early Life

Tamlin was born in the Spring Court, the youngest of three son's of the High lord of the Spring Court. Tamlin's father was a friend and ally of the King of Hybern and Amarantha and often went on trips to Hybern sometimes bringing Tamlin with him, that was how he first met Amarantha and when she first decided that she desired him to be her lover but he never reciprocated her feelings.

During The War, Tamlin was too young to fight. He never expected - never wanted - his father's title. Tamlin's brothers would have never let him live to adolescence if they had suspected that he did. So the moment Tamlin was old enough, he joined his father's war band and trained so that he might someday serve his father, or whichever of his brothers inherited the title. In the war band, there were contests to see who could write the dirtiest limericks. Tamlin didn't particularly enjoy loosing, so he took it upon himself to become good at them. Tamlin realized from an early age that fighting and killing were about the only things he was good at.

During various court functions over the years, Tamlin and Rhysand, the heir to the Night Court got to know each other. Rhys being a half-breed Illyrian who had to prove himself and defend his power, saw that Tamlin was going through and befriended him. Rhys sought Tamlin out whenever he was able to get away from war-camps or court and taught him some Illyrian techniques. Rhysand's family disapproved, but Tamlin's father felt threatened by him, sensing Rhy's power and knowing that he would become the most powerful High Lord and that his court supported mortals. And because he was weaker than both Tamlin and Rhys, he wanted to prove to the world he wasn't.

When Rhys told Tamlin that his mother and sister were going to camp alone and that he had plans to meet them but in the end he didn't go, Tamlin told his father. Tamlin's father, brothers and Tamlin himself set out to the Illyrian wilderness and slaughtered Rhysand's mother and sister. They put their heads in boxes and sent them down the river - to the nearest camp. Tamlin's father kept their wings as trophies pinned to the wall of his study.

When Rhys and his father heard, they winnowed to the edge of the Spring Court that night, then went the rest of the way on foot to Tamlin's Manor. When they got there, Rhys slew Tamlin's brothers on sight. However, when he got to the High Lord's bedroom, he found the High Lord and his wife dead, killed by his father, even after he promised not to touch her. Then the High Lord of Night went for Tamlin's room. Rhys tried to stop him, but his father didn't listen. He was going to kill Tamlin too, but Rhysand couldn't let his father do it. So he stopped his father before the door. But when his father tried to go through him, Tamlin opened the door, saw them - smelled the blood spilled from his father's room, and killed Rhys' father in one blow.

Moments later, the powers from the two deceased High Lords shifted to both of them respectively, crowning both of them as the new High Lords of their court. After that, Rhys ran from the Spring Court, and they had a deep hatred for each other ever since.

At some point, shortly after the murders, Tamlin burned the wings of Rhysand's mother and sister.

Most High Lords are trained from birth in manners and laws and court warefare but Tamlin was never intended to become High Lord so when he inherited his father's title, many of the late High Lord's courtiers defected to other courts rather than "have a warrior-beast snarling at them".

After Beron Vanserra the High Lord of the Autumn Court killed his youngest son's lover, Lucien cursed his father, aabandoned his title and the Autumn Court leaving for the Spring Court. Without his title protecting him, Lucien's brothers thought to eliminate one more contender to the High Lord's crown. Three of them went out to kill him. They crossed into the Spring Court territory, Tamlin, now High Lord could do what he wanted with trespassers threatening the peace of his lands so Lucien killed on and Tamlin killed aother, only one returned hom. He claimed Lucien as his own - named him emissary of the Spring Court since he's already made many friends across the courts and had always been good at talking to people, something that Tamlin found difficult.

Years later, Amarantha still desired Tamlin but even though Tamlin rejected her she kept resisting, so she attacked Lucien, gouging out his eye and leaving his face full of scars. Enraged, Tamlin taunted her by telling her that not even her sister wanted her, that she had preferred a human over to her. Later, Amarantha invited the Spring Court to a masquerade as a peace offering, and the reason it was a masquerade was so that Lucien could hide his scarred face. The entire court went. During the party, Amarantha cursed them to never take off their masks and told Tamlin that she gave him seven times out of seven years to find a human who hated Fae but would love him. If that happened the curse would be lifted and they could take their masks off and be free, otherwise Tamlin would be her lover and his entire court would live as prisoners int her court Under the Mountain.

Tamlin sent his men to the other side of the Wall every day to see if they could find a human with a hatred for the Fae in her heart to love him, but after many years of not finding her, he had given up hope.