Teresa Reynoso

Teresa Josefa Reynoso Cielos, also known as Tere, is the sister of Luz and a princess of the Sun Court. She is the second eldest of the family.

Dates fellow musician, Fatima Ayad (flute)

Early Life
Teresa Reynoso was born to Nicolas Reynoso and his wife, Ariel Cielos, Los Angeles. She began taking violin lessons during the third grade and encouraged her sisters to all pick up an instrument.


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Personality
"My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me." Aelin is very passionate about many things, and especially so with the people whom she loves. When she cares for someone, she cares for them deeply and has experienced enough loss in her life to never want to feel it again. Aelin's passionate nature also often extends to her interests, which include books, sweets, and music. Aelin can often be called rude or even evil, but it is obvious that she loves her homeland and her friends very much

Aelin feels things both strongly and deeply. While she is often teasing, witty, and carefree when she is happy, Aelin's most immediate reaction when angry or sad is to channel her darker emotions into a barely-contained rage or killing calm. This gets her into trouble more often than not, such as when she is captured due to her rash actions and desire for vengeance after the murder of Sam Cortland.

Even during her time as an assassin, she was meticulous in managing her appearance. She has a fixation on finery and insists on wearing fashionable clothing.

Aelin also has a strong moral compass. Though she often tries to suppress the memories of her tumultuous past, her experiences have shaped her into the woman she is, and that is a woman who does not tolerate injustices. Aelin absolutely loathes slavery and unnecessary cruelty, as is evidenced when she allows her contracted targets to go free while acting as the King's Champion and when she freed the slaves at Skull's Bay with the help of Sam Cortland.

Physical description
Aelin is described as being particularly beautiful, with long golden hair that shines in the sunlight, her hair is quite long because the healers at Doranelle left it to grow and her hair has grown down to her navel as a result. She also possesses Ashryver eyes—bright turquoise eyes with golden rings around the pupils, which serves as the major giveaway to her true identity since they are so distinctive and only run in her family. In her fae form, she has pointed ears and pointed canines. Also, her body becomes taller and leaner in this form. Standing at 5'7" Aelin’s body is lithe and toned, nevertheless, she is blessed with impressive curves and well-formed breasts. She had many scars, including those on her back which she received from whips during her time in the Salt Mines of Endovier, but these were erased. She also has five tattoos that each describe the stories of how she lost her loved ones, these include Lady Marion Lochan, her mother, father and uncle, her people of Terasen, Sam Cortland, and Princess Nehemia of Eyllwe. All her scars later disappeared in Kingdom of Ash because of Doranelle's healers' ministrations. In Queen of Shadows, she dyed her hair red for a while as a cover to become less recognizable, fortunately, it worked. Nesryn admitted she would find Aelin earlier if her hair appeared golden.

Powers & Abilities
Standard Fae abilities (shifted)=
 * Enhanced Hearing
 * Enhanced Speed
 * Enhanced Healing (than mortals)
 * Presence of elongated canines
 * Secondary Animal form:Due to her Fae heritage, Aelin is able to shift between two different forms. Her first form is her Fae form, and her secondary form is her human body, which acts as her animal form.
 * Immortality/Long-Life: As a Demi-Fae, Aelin is entitled to go through the Settling - which will determine whether she becomes immortal and loses/retains her magic. Maeve informs Aelin that she is "likely five years away from Settling". Aelin will retain her full magic, her full Fae gifts, her shifting abilities, and the full extended life of the Fae, due to her great-grandmother's blood flowing through her veins. Mab's line was mentioned by Maeve to run true - so that her descendants will successfully transition into Fae when Settling.

Fire Magic=
 * This is the main type of magic Aelin can wield strongly
 * She was able to manifest flame at an early age, although she had little to no control over it - as shown when she accidentally burnt a part of Orynth's Grand Library.
 * After her extensive training at Mistward with Rowan, she now has greater control over this magic.
 * She can shape her fire into shields, daggers, arrows, and even a rose.
 * She was able to set Doranelle's rivers steaming, and turn a massive wave of deadly glass shards into an extensive glass wall - to save the citizens of Rifthold.
 * She can burn her opponent's internal organs, burning them inside out by merely breathing at them.
 * She was able to take out an army of 500 ilken with her full Fire-Bringer gifts.

After Kingdom of Ash she is left with only an ember of her fire magic.

Water Magic=
 * She is able to manipulate water - as shown when a pebble-sized droplet of water was lifted when she was with Rowan in Heir of Fire, and in Empire of Storms when she spun rivulets of water within a river in Terrasen.
 * This power can be wielded weakly, due to the dimming bloodline from its source - her great-grandmother Mab.
 *  Water Affinity  - inherited from Mab alongside her magic, Evalin tells Aelin that it reminds the bearer of their salvation, and their self-preservation. Aelin has inherited a drop of this magic, which can be used to heal others and herself. This healing magic is much stronger than the standard healing abilities of the Fae.

Moon-Fire= While Aelin delved deep into her Fire Magic at Skulls' Bay, she unconsciously let her magic touch the Amulet of Orynth. As a result, the Wyrdkey opened a door to another realm, from which Deanna was watching Erilea. Deanna then possessed Aelin, taking control of her body, magic, and Rowan's magic.

She proceeded to convert all of Aelin's Fire Magic to Moon-Fire. The Goddess's Moon-Fire was described as being the cold white light of the stars, light that was stolen from them, which would be so cold that it would burn.

This magic was able to easily burn through Anti-Magic physical properties, as evident when Deanna burned through the iron encasing Aelin's hand.

Wyrd Magic= Aelin has learned to use wyrdmarks, with the help of the Walking Dead, a book she found in Adarlan's Castle Library. The spells generated from wyrdmarks are able to be used without Magic present since the Wyrd governs all life. Nehemia also showed Aelin her use of wyrdmarks, and stated that wyrdmarks use the power stored in the user's blood. As in, those with magic dormant in their veins can use their power to generate wyrdmarks. There is a limit to how much power one can use in their blood, as Aelin needed Dorian's help to close a portal. As of now, Aelin is capable of using the wyrdmarks for the following spells:
 * Unlocking Doors - Aelin was able to unlock even an iron door, immune to magic, with wyrdmarks chalked up to the door, when she was about to face the Valg-possessed human captive under Adarlan's Castle
 * Binding Spell - When Chaol was held by Manon Blackbeak, Aelin used his blood in the grass to form a binding spell that froze the Wingleader in place for a limited amount of time.
 * Protection Spell - She was able to cover her body in wyrdmarks covered in blood - to ward off the Valg, and their powerful Valg Magic (when facing Dorian and the King)
 * Portal Generation - When Nehemia passed away, Aelin strived to see her friend again, and so she created a portal via a dome of wyrdmarks from her blood, near Elena's Tomb.
 * Locking Spell - She was able to seal the portal to the Valg realm near Elena's tomb, using Dorian's blood.

Near-unlimited magic= She originally thought that her well of magic was as great as Brannon Galathynius, her ancestor. In Heir of Fire, during the Battle of Mistward, while fighting Valg princes, she discovers what seems to be the bottom of her chamber of magic.

However, this is later proved to be just a threshold, as Aelin found out another 'bottom' when she delved into her power for a day - to prepare to face Maeve in Doranelle.

In Empire of Storms, she delves into her magic for three days, when preparing for a possible skirmish with the Valg at Skulls' Bay. Aelin then breaks through this barrier, when Deanna possesses her. She discovers that her magic is as great as Mala Fire-Bringer's - due to being her heir and descendant. When preparing for an inevitable encounter with either Maeve's or Erawan's forces as she sailed for the Stone Marshes, Aelin had hovered over her magic for days - still no burnout.

It was only until after she obliterated 500 ilken, that her well of magic reserves became drained - which Maeve took advantage of to leash her.

In Kingdom of Ash Aelin has been delving into her power for three months to face and kill Maeve. Instead, she uses that power to stop a giant tidal wave from destroying Anielle.

When she forges the Lock later in the book, she loses her mortal body and her fire magic and is left only with her drop of water magic and a Fae body. When Aelin is about to send the Gods back to their realm, Mala Fire-Bringer gifts her an ember of fire magic, as thanks for trying to save her daughter Elena.

Development
In an interview prior to the series' debut, Maas discussed the process of creating her protagonist:"I grew up reading books like Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown and Garth Nix's Sabriel —both of which feature strong heroines, and both of which profoundly shaped my identity and empowered me. I started writing knowing I wanted to create books like that—mostly because that's what interests me and where my passion lies, but also because I'd love for some young woman to read [ Throne of Glass ] and feel empowered, too."

- Sarah J. Maas The story's teenage heroine, Aelin Galathynius, is introduced as an orphan who was raised and trained by an assassin. She is largely characterized as skilled, arrogant, and witty. While shaping her protagonist, Maas was inspired by the heroism of Arwen from The Lord of the Rings, and by the characterization of Velma Kelly from Chicago. Maas has stated that the latter's "arrogance and fierceness made me want to write about a woman like her—about a woman who never once said sorry for being talented and determined and utterly in love with herself." Maas ultimately designed Aelin as a highly capable character whose talents also form a basis for numerous faults. In interviews preceding the series' release, Maas noted her heroine's issues with "impatience" and "vanity". She also suggested that Aelin would grow while adjusting to her new role. In addition to Aelin's skills as an assassin, Maas wanted the character to have several traits and hobbies befitting her age, including a fondness for "shopping, books, and fine dining", as well as a "penchant for getting into trouble."

Relation to Rowan Whitethorn
''Note: The lineages of the Galathyniuses, Ashryvers, and Whitethorns date back almost a thousand years to their respective founders. Any relation between the Galathynius and Whitethorn bloodlines is centuries old and very distant, weakened by intermarriages and time. While Aelin may be maternally related to the Whitethorns through the Ashryver line, the relation is not at all direct.''

For a more detailed family tree, see the respective pages for each house.

Trivia

 * In Queen of Glass Celaena ends up marrying Dorian
 * Celaena is a name derived from Celaeno, which means "dark one" and is also a star in the constellation of Taurus and a member of the Pleiades.
 * Sarah J. Maas said that Aelin's birthday is on the 3rd of May.
 * The ornate ruby brooch that Aelin includes in her money pouch to Yrene was gifted to her by Arobynn Hamel for her sixteenth birthday.
 * Her identity as Celaena Sardothien was so carefully protected that very few people had ever seen what she actually looked like; when meeting clients, she always wore a mask, gloves, and black clothing, which revealed only her gender. Because of this Arobynn used to introduce her to clients as his niece, Dianna Brackyn.
 * When she was young, she was infatuated with Ben, Arobynn's second-in-command, and Archer Finn, a courtesan, whom she later kills.
 * She purposely broke her right hand at the age of twelve by slamming it in a door frame; Arobynn decided she needed to be more skilled at swordplay with her left hand and had offered to break it for her.
 * She learned to play the pianoforte when she was ten, under Arobynn's order that she finds at least one refined skill other than ending lives.
 * Archer Finn used to call her by the nickname "Laena", which Celaena absolutely hated.
 * She was 10 the first time she killed a man under Arobynn's order.
 * Sarah J. Maas said that Aelin's favorite book genre is romance.
 * Sarah J. Maas said that if Aelin was a writer she would write smut and joked that she would also be the “Ultimate smut master”.
 * In an interview with Sarah J. Maas, Maas stated that in the present time, Aelin would be a fan of the Outlander Series.
 * She bears the mark of the Nameless from her ancestor Brannon.
 * She adores extravagant clothes, expensive perfume, books, chocolate, and shoes.
 * She claimed to hate the smell and taste of fish, but Rowan proved her wrong in Queen of Shadows by convincing her to try pan-fried trout, which she greatly enjoyed.
 * She believed and tried to convince herself that her favorite color was blue but as the time passed by, Aelin admitted to herself it was actually red.
 * Aelin killed her first overseer by gutting him with a pickax when he pushed her too hard.
 * AAG, Aelin's initials, is "Fire" in Hindi and Urdu.
 * The name 'Aelin' might be derived from the Turkish name 'Aylin', which means 'of the moon', which is referenced in Empire of Storms when Deanna, goddess of the moon, possesses the body of Aelin to remind her that she belonged to the gods. It also may come from Irish 'Ailin' which means noble.
 * ’Aelin’ could also be derived from the Sindarin Language from the Tolkien works(which Throne of Glass is known to pull inspiration from) which means ‘lake’, most likely paying homage to the water magic of her mother that she inherits a drop of. Both share the exact same spelling.
 * Rowan states in Queen of Shadows that her scent smells like jasmine, lemon verbena, and crackling embers.
 * Aelin, along with Dorian and Chaol, are the only three characters to get a point of view in the first book and a main point of view in six books, while other character's points of view were all added in the following books.
 * in Kingdom of Ash, Aelin, while falling through the worlds, comes in contact with a Fae couple who are most likely Rhysand and Feyre, from Sarah J. Maas' other series, A Court of Thorns and Roses.