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Alis is a lesser faerie from the Summer Court who has been working as a servant in the Spring Court for about 50 years. She fled from the Summer Court with her nephews after her sister and her sister’s mate were murdered, apparently by Amarantha or her cronies. Alis has bark-textured skin in her true form, but for much of the novel, Tamlin casts a glamour that makes her look like a squat human woman in a brown dress. Like Feyre, Alis is pragmatic and attempts to be unemotional. She gives Feyre some of the most useful advice in the novel, such as telling her to listen and not always trust her senses. Alis is eventually the one to tell Feyre the truth about the curse and show her how to get Under the Mountain.
Alis Quotes in A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Chapter 6 Quotes
The few stories I’d heard had been wrong—or five hundred years of separation had muddled them. Yes, I was still prey, born weak and useless compared to them, but this place was…peaceful. Calm. Unless that was an illusion, too, and the loophole in the Treaty was a lie—a trick to set me at ease before they destroyed me. The High Fae liked to play with their food.
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Feyre has been in Prythian at Tamlin’s Spring Court for mere hours, and she’s overwhelmed by the lavish furnishings, amazing food, and well-staffed household that Tamlin enjoys. It contrasts immensely with what Feyre has heard about Prythian. While Feyre doesn’t share the stories she has heard, and she notes later on that her mother didn’t tell her stories at all, Feyre’s past observations paint a picture of what Feyre expected from Prythian. Namely, her shock at finding finely tooled horse saddles, velvet curtains, and gold goblets suggests by contrast that she expected to find a cold, dangerous world devoid of Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore c
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“She was the King of Hybern’s most lethal general […] But she had a younger sister, Clythia, who fought at her side, as vicious and wretched as she…until Clythia fell in love with a mortal warrior. Jurian.” Alis loosed a shaking sigh. “Jurian commanded mighty human armies, but Clythia still secretly sought him out, still loved him with an unrelenting madness. She was too blind to realize that Jurian was using her for information about Amarantha’s forces. Amarantha suspected, but could not persuade Clythia to leave him—and could not bring herself to kill him, not when it would cause her sister such pain.”
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Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, and Alis is telling Feyre the history of the “blight”—which is a euphemism for Amarantha herself, and all the cruel things she has done to the Prythian faeries. Here, Alis details the provenance of Amarantha’s hatred for humans, which it’s implied was always there but grew deeper after Jurian betrayed and crucified her beloved sister, Clythia. By giving Amarantha’s backstory, and specifically by highlighting the fact that Amarantha’s cruelty came out of her love for her sister, the novel suggests that even someone as abhorrent as Amarantha deserves at least some compassion. She’s Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inve
“He thought that if the human girl loved true, then bringing her here to free him was another form of slavery. And he thought that if he did indeed fall in love with her, Amarantha would do everything she could to destroy her, as her sister had been destroyed. So he spent decades refusing to do it, to even risk it. But this winter, with months to go, he just…snapped. He sent the last of his men out, one by one. And they were willing—they had begged him to go, all these years. Tamlin was desperate to save his people, desperate enough to risk the lives of his men, risk that human girl’s life to save us. Three days in, Andras finally ran into a human girl in a clearing—and you killed him with hate in your heart.”
But I had failed them. And in so doing, I had damned them all.
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Upon Feyre’s return to the Spring Court, she finds Alis, and Alis tells her the truth about what’s been going on for the last 49 years, including how and why Feyre came to be in Prythian in the first place. Alis’s description of Tamlin’s reservations about allowing a human to fall in love with him highlights his own compassion and respect for humans. He and other High Fae may see humans as lesser in some ways, but Tamlin shows here that he still sees them as deserving of genuine freedom, safety, and happiness. That is, he didn’t want to put Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porr
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Alis Character Timeline in A Court of Thorns and Roses
The timeline below shows where the character Alis appears in A Court of Thorns and Roses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6
...Andras. Calling the faerie Lucien, the beast tells him to behave and tells Feyre that Alis will show her to her room for a bath. A squat woman, also in a...
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Alis steers Feyre to a bedroom where she and two other servants bathe Feyre. It’s terrifying—especially...
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Alis returns with Feyre’s clothes, which are falling apart. Feyre stays silent, and eventually, Alis fetches...
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Chapter 7
...thinks of Tamlin. He’s awkward, but he doesn’t seem so evil. A scream interrupts Feyre’s thoughts—Alis entered the room and got caught in Feyre’s booby trap. Alis scolds Feyre: a booby...
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Feyre dresses in a purple tunic, the color of which greatly impresses her. As Alis braids Feyre’s hair, Feyre studies her reflection—she looks too much like her mother and Nesta...
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Chapter 8
...true that she’s safer here for now. Still, she needs an ally. Thinking of what Alis said about Lucien needing someone to “snap[] at him,” Feyre decides to target him—after all,...
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Chapter 10
...to have fought in the War) and Feyre insults him. He seems to enjoy it, though—Alis was right.
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Chapter 16
After a long, relaxing bath, Feyre sits by the fire while Alis brushes her hair. Feyre breaks the comfortable silence by asking if there’s going to be...
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Chapter 19
...intense emotion. Feyre spends the morning in the gallery, and the afternoon in the studio Alis shows her to. For the next several weeks, Feyre immerses herself in painting. She spends...
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Chapter 20
...teeth. The painting is so frightening she has to put it away and go ask Alis if she can help in the kitchens with Fire Night preparations. Fire Night arrives the...
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Chapter 22
The next night, Feyre asks Alis to help her put on a dress and do her hair. When Feyre enters the...
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Chapter 24
...the morning, but a strange faerie with bark-like skin is there, too. Feyre asks where Alis is—and the faerie says she is Alis. Realizing that Tamlin must’ve glamoured everyone at the...
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Chapter 25
...When Feyre wakes up the following morning, the garden is decorated for a party, and Alis explains that this is the celebration for the start of summer—and this time, Feyre can...
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Chapter 26
...bad news from the Winter Court: the blight killed 24 of their young. Given what Alis told Feyre about faerie children, Feyre understands how devastating this is. As Tamlin begins to...
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Chapter 28
In the morning, Alis dresses Feyre in a frilly pink gown. Neither woman likes goodbyes, so their parting is...
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Chapter 32
...the sound, her knife out. She spots a figure, but it turns out to be Alis. Feyre demands to hear what happened, and Alis drags her to the kitchen. Alis confirms...
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Alis elaborates: Amarantha became the High Queen of Prythian a hundred years ago, after she arrived...
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As she packs a satchel, Alis continues her story. Amarantha convinced High Lords to believe that she’d changed. But really, Amarantha...
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Alis continues. Tamlin used to send men daily, but he stopped when there were only 12...
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Alis says that Amarantha is also offering safety to the frightening faeries and creatures, like the...
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Chapter 33
After taking abandoned weapons from the house, Feyre follows Alis. She thinks about what the Suriel said—had she listened and been willing to admit her...
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Chapter 39
...Feyre to the refreshment table, hands her wine, and tells her to drink. Feyre remembers Alis’s warning but has no choice.
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Chapter 41
...the other creature notes that the king can take away her powers. Feyre flashes on Alis’s warning not to trust her senses as the creatures disappear. She realizes the servants are...
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Chapter 43
...Amarantha taunts Feyre, and Feyre feels there’s no way to win. But she thinks of Alis telling her to listen. She thinks back carefully to all the times that, in retrospect,...
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Chapter 46
...smells the flowers and realizes that finally, she’s home. She hears children laughing and spots Alis and her nephews playing. Feyre kisses Tamlin and suggests they go home.
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