Manipulation

The Stolen Heir explores manipulation through the acts of the faeries. Though faeries are unable to lie, they are masters of controlling situations and conversations to achieve the faeries' desired outcome. They are able to do this without revealing their methods.

One of the first examples of this theme occurs in the Prologue. Nore and Jarel manipulate the situation so that Wren's family is terrified of her. They promise that she can remain with her family only if her parents say they love and want her. Up until this moment, they have been loving parents who do want her, but Nore and Jarel use magic to reveal Wren's true appearance. More than a year after that devastating moment, Wren learned that “Jarel had enchanted their love away” (23). Nore and Jarel manipulated the situation to ensure Wren's adoptive parents played their roles. It is years later before...