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Friend to All Children: Priya is shown to have a knack around them.Fertile Feet: Due to Priya's powers, plants and flowers grow from the ground that she walks on with every step she takes.The Exile: Malini was exiled to Ahiranya after refusing her brother's order that she kill herself in a sacrifice.Does Not Like Shoes: Priya is barefoot throughout the story, partly due to social rank, but also because physical contact with the earth helps channel her powers.All the lords she recruited to fight for her compassionate-but-useless brother Aditya against their sadistic, fanatical emperor Chandra already know Malini is the real brains of the operation, but the prophecy helps her overcome the ingrained prejudice against a woman ruling in her own right. A certain character's name prophesies that Malini, the imperial princess, is fated to rule. These range from Mundane Utility (a princess several generations back had a name that was three pages of advice on how to handle a drought), to predicting the person in question's death, to this. The Chooser of the One: The royal family of the client kingdom Alor all have prophetic true names that they are only to reveal when the time is right.

Cain and Abel: Technically the situation between Malini and Chandra from the beginning of the novel, but she's left in a state where it's difficult for her to face him.

Big Brother Bully: Chandra's psychological abuse toward Malini turns out to not be new.

By slaughtering attackers with animated thorns.

Beware the Nice Ones: Bhumika is a sweet, motherly woman who's just trying to protect all the people under her care.

Asshole Victim: No one is shedding any tears over the death of the condescending, bigoted, imperial lackey Lord Santosh.

Together, they will set an empire ablaze. The other a powerful priestess desperate to save her family. One is a ruthless princess seeking to steal a throne. But in order to keep the truth of her past safely hidden, she works as a servant in the loathed regent’s household, biting her tongue and cleaning Malini’s chambers.īut when Malini witnesses Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled.

The Jasmine Throne is the 2021 first novel in The Burning Kingdoms epic fantasy series by Tasha Suri.Įxiled by her despotic brother, princess Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while imprisoned in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters but is now little more than a decaying ruin.