Story so far
Darrow is celebrated with a Triumph through Agea and, in private, named Nero au Augustus's heir—the ArchGovernor revealing he means to imprison the Reformers once Octavia au Lune falls, using Darrow to bind Mustang to him. Darrow kneels and plays the loyal son. But at the intimate Mask presentation the trap closes: Roque, the traitor, poisons him with a needle-ring and a kiss—'thus go liars, with a bloodydamn kiss.' The Jackal, allied with the Sovereign, Cassius, Aja, and Antonia, springs a massacre.
Paralyzed against a statue, Darrow watches Lorn au Arcos's throat cut, Victra shot down, and Augustus murdered by his own son, while Cassius steals the iron wolf ring from his finger and vows to hunt Sevro and Mustang. Then Roque tilts the ivory Mask box to his face: inside is Fitchner's—Ares's—severed head, mouth stuffed with grapes. The one hope of the rebellion is dead, and Darrow, captured and bound for dissection, knows they are undone.
Appearance
Twenty, dripping in gold with a purple sash and laurel wreath, tall and scarred; then slumped and paralyzed by poison against a marble statue, wolf-ring gone from his bare finger.
Role
Protagonist; betrayed at the height of victory, captured and broken as his allies are slaughtered.
Relationships
Roque — His dearest friend revealed as the traitor who poisons him with a kiss.
The Jackal — His ally turned mastermind, who engineers the massacre and his capture.
Fitchner — Ares, whose severed head in the Mask box shatters Darrow's every hope.
Cassius au Bellona — Who steals back his wolf ring and vows to hunt his friends, believing Darrow murdered the Bellona children.
Nero au Augustus — The ArchGovernor who names him heir moments before his own son murders him.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 21 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
- A Red carved into a Gold, embedded in House Augustus as a secret sword of the rebellion.
Chapter 4
- A Red carved into a Gold, now a beaten, ship-losing Praetor mourning 833 dead.
Chapter 5
- A Red carved into a Gold, cast off by Augustus and left three days from Bellona vengeance.
Chapter 8
- A disgraced Gold gambling on the Jackal, descending Luna's gutters in Obsidian disguise.
Chapter 10
- A grieving Gold at war with his own rebellion, learning Eo died carrying his child.
Chapter 12
- A grief-hollowed Gold who refuses to bomb the gala and chooses instead to ignite civil war.
Chapter 13
- The Reaper who publicly challenges Cassius, maims him, and ignites civil war among the Golds.
Chapter 14
- The alpha of Augustus's bloodied survivors, who leads them through slaughter only to be marooned and arrested.
Chapter 16
- The Reaper who out-nerves the Sovereign's truth-game and exposes her planned betrayal of Augustus.
Chapter 20
- The Reaper who ransoms his house off Luna with a child hostage, only to have his chip stolen by Tactus.
Chapter 22
- The Reaper who launches himself through a flagship's bridge, seizes it, and wins a Stained giant's oath.
Chapter 26
- Augustus's embattled lancer, a month on the run, who unveils an audacious plan to steal an entire moon's fleet.
Chapter 32
- The Reaper, his armada swelling, who forgives a traitor and confronts the collapse of Augustus's house.
Chapter 35
- The Reaper, torn between love and his lie, who frees Ragnar and confesses to him that he was born a Red.
Chapter 38
- The Reaper, come to Mars at the head of his own armada, calling an Iron Rain on his home world.
Chapter 41
- The Reaper, who rides the Iron Rain to Mars, breaches Agea by river, and cuts himself from a drowning starShell after an EMP ambush.
Chapter 42
- The Reaper, who arms the Obsidians as free men and, abandoning caution, leaps aboard the Sovereign's escaping shuttle.
Chapter 44
- The Reaper, healed after his near-death and Ares's rescue, who wins Mars and at last gives himself to Mustang.
Chapter 47
- The Reaper, who frees the captured Sons by a staged raid, learns of Ares's plan to make him Sovereign, and resolves to go home.
Chapter 50
- The Reaper, home in Lykos after four years, who reveals his truth to Mustang and reunites with his mother.
Chapter 52
- The Reaper, honored with a Triumph and named Augustus's heir, then poisoned and captured as his world is butchered around him.