Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Strictly speaking, she didn't say Gideon wouldn't be appearing in book 2, just that her absence would be a huge mercy.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.Īfter rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. What are y'all's thoughts on who this mysterious trilogy-ender might be?
Not very likely, but hey, a girl can dream! What if Harrow was able to connect to Gideon's soul directly, leading them to become a single entity or gestalt of entities inhabiting a single body? So far, this has been portrayed as Harrow gaining Gideon's swordplay abilities, but otherwise nothing else of her appears to remain. Harrow (presumably) consumed Gideon's soul to become a Lyctor.
Alecto is the hybrid entity of Gideon and Harrow.
Muir said the in the same AMA above that the sunglasses would be returning, and let's face it, who else would wear them? Certainly not Harrow! Plus, her body was never recovered, and in a universe with literal necromancers, that may strongly suggest that she's no longer dead. Muir has implied Gideon won't be returning in book 2 -which would be a clever dodge if it turns out Gideon was really Alecto all along. Alecto is Gideon Gideon's an orphan and basically a foundling of unknown origin, and there are plenty of clues (particularly her inexplicably surviving a poison gas attack that killed all the other children) that she's more than she appears, and is perhaps not entirely human. We don't know much about her, but the trilogy's called the Locked Tomb, so presumably the occupant of said tomb is important. Alecto is the sleeping girl in the tomb, out to get even with the Emperor for imprisoning her. Some blatant speculation on my part of possible identities for Alecto: So, presumably, whoever this is looking for payback. Historically, Alecto is the name of one of the Erinyes, or Furies, spirits of vengeance from Greek mythology that would pursue those who committed certain mortal sins. Obviously, the first was about Gideon, told from her perspective the second appears to be about Harrow (though, curiously, it's told in second-person perspective, at least from the snippet that's been published but that leaves the question, who's the third book going to be about? So, Tamysn Muir has three books planned for the Locked Tomb trilogy: Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Alecto the Ninth.
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