50 Fun Facts About A Court of Mist and Fury

Which Greek myth did Sarah J. Maas use as the main inspiration for A Court of Mist and Fury?

Hades and Persephone gave Maas her frame: Rhysand, standing in for the god, takes Feyre to a court everyone fears, and she ends up choosing to stay.

Which state's Mason City schools pulled A Court of Mist and Fury after vetting books with ChatGPT?

Iowa's Mason City district made international news in 2023: staff asked the chatbot whether each title depicted a sex act, then took the flagged books off library shelves.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, Rhysand first whisks Feyre away from the Spring Court on what occasion?

Her wedding day ends with Feyre in a silent panic, begging for someone to save her, and Rhysand appears to call in the deal they struck.

Which hidden City of Starlight does Rhysand reveal to Feyre in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Velaris stayed secret for millennia behind wards and spells; not even Amarantha knew it existed, so her reign never touched it.

Feyre ends A Court of Mist and Fury secretly holding which title, never before granted in Prythian?

High Lady is a rank Tamlin told Feyre did not exist; Rhysand gives it to her the night before she walks back into the Spring Court.

Which all-knowing faerie does Feyre trap in A Court of Mist and Fury to cure a poisoned Rhysand?

The Suriel names the cure, then lets slip something bigger: Rhysand is Feyre's mate, and he has known it for some time.

Feyre returns to Tamlin at the end of A Court of Mist and Fury while secretly acting as what?

A spy for the Night Court: Feyre pretends to wake from a spell so Tamlin will take her home, while her friends escape Hybern's castle.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, what does Feyre offer Rhysand to show that she accepts the mating bond?

Food offered to a mate for the first time means the female accepts the bond; Feyre heats soup for Rhysand in a remote mountain cabin.

Which winged general of Rhysand's armies teaches Feyre to fight in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Cassian offers the lessons at their very first dinner, which makes Feyre see how hollow Tamlin's reasons for keeping her untrained were.

Which basic skill does Rhysand make Feyre practice during her first week at the Night Court?

Reading is the week's so-called torture; Feyre later realizes he taught her because he already suspected they would need an ancient book.

Which art does Feyre take up again in A Court of Mist and Fury while alone in a mountain cabin?

Painting comes back to Feyre after months of being unable to pick up a brush, and she spends days covering every room of the cabin in color.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, the tattoo sealing Feyre's deal with Rhysand shows what on her palm?

An eye like a cat's sits in Feyre's palm; the mark binds her to spend one week of every month at the Night Court.

Sarah J. Maas, author of A Court of Mist and Fury, began writing which debut novel at age sixteen?

Throne of Glass first reached readers as chapters Maas posted online under the title Queen of Glass, where the story became a hit before she pulled it to publish.

Which of Rhysand's deputies alone can translate the Book of Breathings in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Amren, his Second-in-command, recognizes the script as the language of her own kind, and Rhysand hopes the pages also hold the spell that could free her.

Which shadowsinger serves as Rhysand's spymaster in Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Mist and Fury?

Azriel can merge into shadows and move through them; his hands carry burn scars left by two cruel half-brothers when he was eight.

Which cousin of Rhysand carries Feyre out of Tamlin's sealed manor in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Morrigan knocks out the guards and walks in on her own two feet; she also ranks as Third-in-command of the Night Court.

Which festival of migrating spirits do Feyre and Rhysand watch in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Starfall's lights are not stars but spirits crossing the sky; one splashes Feyre with its glow, and Rhysand watches her laugh for the first time.

Lucien stuns Hybern's throne room in A Court of Mist and Fury by declaring which woman his mate?

Elain has just been forced into the Cauldron and remade as High Fae when Lucien makes the claim, to the fury of her elder sister.

Which Sarah J. Maas novel picks up Feyre's story right after she goes back to Tamlin's manor?

A Court of Wings and Ruin followed in May 2017, a year after its predecessor, and builds to open war between Prythian and Hybern.

Which High Lord of the Summer Court does Feyre befriend, then rob, in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Tarquin shows Feyre his treasures and shares his hopes for a more equal Prythian; Rhysand, who had hoped to make a friend of him, takes the fallout hard.

Which High Priestess betrays Feyre's sisters to Hybern in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Ianthe, a childhood friend of Tamlin, coaxes details about the family out of Feyre and passes them on to the King of Hybern.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, Rhysand's cruel Court of Nightmares sits in which mountain stronghold?

The Hewn City is a whole metropolis carved from the dark stone of a mountain, and Amarantha modeled her own court on it.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, Rhysand is half High Fae and half which winged warrior race?

Illyrian fighters are raised in brutal mountain war-camps; Rhysand trained in one, where he met the two friends who became his closest allies.

Feyre's new fire magic in A Court of Mist and Fury comes from which seasonal court's High Lord?

Autumn's High Lord, Beron, was one of the seven who brought Feyre back to life, and each of them left a seed of his power in her.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, Feyre can heal a poisoned Rhysand thanks to which court's High Lord?

Dawn's High Lord passed on his healing power when Feyre was Made, so a few drops from her own veins are enough to save her mate.

What are mind-entering faeries like Rhysand and Feyre called in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Daemati can slip into another mind; Feyre first does it to Lucien by accident, and later uses it to calm a suspicious High Lord.

What is the teleporting magic that Feyre first manages in A Court of Mist and Fury called?

Winnowing demands great strength and focus; Feyre's first jump takes her straight to a taunting Rhysand, and she tackles him into the snow.

Which wood, deadly to faeries, forms the arrows that fell Rhysand in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Ash wood is fatal to the Fae, and these arrows carried a poison too: it suppressed Rhysand's magic and stopped his wounds from healing.

Which long-dead human general does the King of Hybern resurrect in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Jurian is remade through the Cauldron from the remains Amarantha had kept as jewelry: a ring and a necklace made from his body.

Which ancient captive appears to Feyre as a dark-haired boy in A Court of Mist and Fury?

The Bone Carver looks different to every visitor; in exchange for Feyre's truths, he reveals that the King of Hybern holds the Cauldron.

Which blind, ancient creature's cottage does Feyre rob of a ring in A Court of Mist and Fury?

The Weaver holds a ring that belonged to Rhysand's mother; the theft is a test of whether Feyre can sense objects tied to a High Lord.

Which winged servant of Amarantha ambushes Feyre in the mortal lands in A Court of Mist and Fury?

The Attor is acting on the King of Hybern's orders; Feyre later kills him herself, letting him fall from the sky.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, Feyre first dines with Rhysand's closest friends at which residence?

The House of Wind is warded against magical arrivals, so Rhysand has to fly Feyre up to that first dinner himself.

Which publishing house released Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Mist and Fury in 2016?

Bloomsbury, the British house behind the Harry Potter books, bought Maas's first novel in 2010 and reissued the faerie series with new illustrated covers in 2020.

Which streaming service optioned A Court of Thorns and Roses for TV, then scrapped it in 2025?

Hulu's adaptation, announced in 2021, had producer Ronald Moore developing it alongside Maas herself before it was officially dropped.

Which tie between Feyre and Rhysand does the King of Hybern sever in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Their bargain, the one-week-a-month deal struck under Amarantha, is all the king destroys; the mating bond and mental tie survive untouched.

Lucien serves Tamlin's Spring Court in which official role at the start of A Court of Mist and Fury?

Emissary is also the job Rhysand offers Feyre: he asks her to represent the Night Court to the human world from her sisters' estate.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, what does Feyre throw at Rhysand's head when he mocks her dress?

Her shoe flies at him moments after they arrive; she had expected a place of horrors and found a great house on a mountain instead.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, the robbed Summer Court sends Feyre which gems as a death threat?

Blood rubies, one for each of the three thieves, are the Summer Court's formal notice that they are now its mortal enemies.

Which talisman is stolen from the Court of Nightmares in A Court of Mist and Fury?

The Veritas is a silver orb of truth magic; with it, the mortal queens can be shown Rhysand's secret home without ever setting foot there.

Which jewels focus the raw killing power of winged warriors in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Siphons turn messy raw power into precise shields and weapons; Rhysand cannot wear one, because his magic would overload and shatter it.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, Feyre gives her jewelry to a hungry water-wraith at which ceremony?

The Tithe is Tamlin's twice-yearly collection of dues; the wraith's sisters later repay the kindness by saving Feyre from drowning.

What is the artists' quarter of Rhysand's hidden city called in A Court of Mist and Fury?

The Rainbow holds around a hundred galleries and the city's most famous theater; Feyre earns the title of its Defender after Hybern's attack.

Which Florence + the Machine song did Sarah J. Maas link to A Court of Mist and Fury as its theme?

Cosmic Love sat on the playlist Maas built while writing, and the track helped inspire the novel's night of falling spirit-lights.

In A Court of Mist and Fury, Rhysand breaks the arms of which steward for insulting Feyre?

Keir is also the father of Rhysand's cousin; when he refuses to apologize, Rhysand forces him to his knees and forbids him from seeing a healer.

In the War backstory told in A Court of Mist and Fury, which woman does Prince Drakon fall in love with?

Miryam was born into slavery in the Black Land; Maas has said the Book of Exodus loosely inspired her and Drakon's backstory.

Which fairy tale inspired the cottage creature who nearly traps Feyre in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Hansel and Gretel gave Maas her witch in the woods: a singing creature whose house is built from the remains of earlier visitors.

Which natural event reveals the temple where the Summer Court hides half the Book of Breathings?

Low tide uncovers the building, and inside it Feyre fools a lead door into taking her for the Summer Court's own High Lord.

Which state's school board banned Sarah J. Maas's whole faerie series from public schools in 2024?

Utah's board put all five titles on a list of 13 books removed statewide, along with one novel from another Maas series.

Which son of a faerie-hunting lord is Feyre's sister engaged to in A Court of Mist and Fury?

Graysen's family hates the Fae and hunts any who stray south of the Wall, which is why the engagement ring is made of iron.