The Sept Rebellion

Marvin Holmes is murdered. Damien Lannister doesn’t appoint anyone to replace him as one of the elite members of the Eight Iron Swords. Melchior’s life is threatened when Celaena Bellrose is hired by Lord DePlune to assassinate him for having premarital sex with his daughter. In The Northern Helm, Lord Stark is assassinated by the mountain tribes. The Annual Knight Ball commences with diverse dates: Melchior and Celaena, Damien and Terian, Beaumont and Arabella. Jonathan Wolfshine is advised to merge houses with a Stark girl.

Learning about his father, Ayden Stark heads north with Melchior, Pike Mercer, Celaena, Abler Lucroix and Fiona Azlen in order to claim his right as Warden of the Northern Helm. The journey north is uneventful, though a large battle unfolds when Ayden arrives and declares war against the mountain tribes. Ayden marched his forces to the center heart of the mountains and defeats the first wave of tribesmen, but almost falls to the second. In the last minutes of the battle, Jonathan Wolfshine arrives with fifteen men and pushes House Stark into victory