King's Cage: 3 (Red Queen)

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Maven quickly marshals an army of Silver soldiers, including his new betrothed Evangeline Samos and her brother Ptolemus Samos, as well as coerced Red soldiers, into attacking Naercey.

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During her imprisonment, Maven did not visit Mare in her "cell" until he needed her to do propaganda for him. It was also revealed that Elara took away Maven's love for his brother and father when he was a small child.Maven forfeits his engagement to Evangeline in his marriage to the princess of the Lakelands, Iris Cygnet, a Silver with the ability of water manipulation. The effort fails, however, when the device's settings work too well and cause Mare's powers to react violently, allowing them to escape. She is also strong enough to control the ocean, as she does when uses it to flood Fort Patriot in Harbor Bay.

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The ambush initially succeeds, with Maven using a prototype sounder device developed in secret to suppress and render Mare unable to use her ability - Maven takes the opportunity of Mare's disorientation to brand her skin with the letter "M", as a reminder and display of dominance. Mare secretly retains them due in part of her feelings for him - often Mare remembers Maven as the boy he was and not the king he became and grew to miss the boy she loved. She attempts to convince him that they need Piedmont and that they should send people to find Prince Bracken's abducted children.

Maven appeared to be different from the other Silvers, despising the excessive pageantry of the Silver Elite and sympathizing with the Scarlet Guard. According to Victoria Aveyard, if our music still existed in the Red Queen timeline, Maven would be listening to Hans Zimmer, John Williams, and film scores like Last of the Mohicans.