Born of Blood and Ash is the fourth and final book of the Flesh and Fire Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout, the fantasy romance story that takes place thousands of years in From Blood and Ash Series universe.
In Born of Blood and Ash, Sera has Ascended as the True Primal of Life and is taking her place as the Queen of The Gods in Iliseeum. Kolis, The False King of the Gods and the True Primal of Death however is more dangerous than ever, putting mortal realm and the fate of the universe in peril.
Read our full summary of Born of Blood and Ash. This post contains spoilers.
Synopsis
Sera Takes Charge of Her Court and Becomes the Queen of Gods
Sera and Ash enjoy each other’s company, finally together and in love.
One evening the entire Shadowlands is put to sleep. Seraphena is taken somewhere else by three beings that can be summoned only by the True Primal of Life, War, Pestilence and Hunger.
They test Sera by putting her against her brother Tavius. Sera realizes this is a test to realize there is a monster in everyone, including her and passes their challenge.
Sera and Ash continue their daily life but they are also preparing for Kolis to wake up from his stasis.
Now that the Rot is dealt with, life is returning to Shadowlands. Grass and flora has returned but water has not.
They consider who they can ally with against Kolis. Gods flock to the Shadowlands, seeking refuge.
Sera, restless and wanting to do something decides that she’ll attempt to bring the water back to the rivers. She calls upon the land to return the water which she succeeds.
Nyktos is continuously in awe of her and continuously tells her he loves her.
However, the display of power wakes Kolis from his stasis.
Sera and Nyktos address their people. Sera is immediately accepted as the Queen of the Gods and the True Primal of Life.
Seraphena deals with PTSD from her time in captivity. Worried about Kolis’s looming vengeance, she remembers the way Kolis violated her. She struggles every time Nyktos’s fangs hover on her throat, even though Nyktos never pressures her. Nyktos wants Sera to talk to him about her trauma, something Seraphena struggles with.
Seraphena begins exibiting some physical symptomps like nausea and lack of appetite.
A fate arrives at their court as an envoy to the True Primal of Death. Kolis requests an audience with Seraphena, something the True Primal of Life and Death can do with one another. Sera is required to attend this meeting with no one but the fate present. Neither of them can harm one another.
Kolis in the meeting requests the Star diamond with Sotoria’s soul in it. In exchange, he’ll let Sera and Ash live and will not wage war.
Sera counters with an offer of her own, he can live out his life but he would renounce his throne and cannot seek revenge.
Wanting some answers about how her powers of The Primal of Life work, Sera summons Holland. Being in trouble about how much he already sort of intervened on behalf of Seraphena, Holland can’t come.
He sends his wife Penellaphe instead. Penellaphe reveals two things she’s seen in the vision. This war will only end by a future King and Queen referring to Poppy and Casteel. She also reveals that two future sisters, Poppy and Millicent, will be instrumental in ending the conflict. She ends her revelations with telling Sera her and the other Primals will need to go to sleep and wait for this queen to be born.
Seraphena and the Others Make Decisions About the War
As time goes by, Sera’s powers continue to grow. Nyktos however loses some of his as Kolis claims his true seat of the True Primal of Death.
Kyn and Vessa arrive to taunt Nyktos and Seraphena. They make crude remarks about Sera’s time in Kolis’s cage and his obsession with her, Sotoria.
Seraphena visits the mortal land, revealing herself as the True Primal of Life to her sister, Queen Ezmeria and Marisol, her consort. She warns them of the conflict to come.
There, she finds Callum. They take Callum as hostage and interrogate him. They have to eventually release him to not to violate the peace between Kolis and Sera while Sera considers the deal Kolis proposed.
Attes arrives and reveals that the second time Sotoria died, she asked Eythos to kill her because she didn’t want to be with Kolis anymore.
Seraphena continues to suffer from PTSD. Nyktos grows vary that she’s not sharing her feelings with him. He tries to get her to open up revealing he could feel some of the things Sera had to go through while he was with Kolis.
Seraphena has a panic attack and shifts into a cave cat.
Nyktos reveals he hasn’t been feeding from Seraphena because he is worried it’ll remind her of her time with Kolis.
While Sera shifts, Nyktos has to go to the Pillars of Asphodel to usher the dead to the afterlife since Kolis doesn’t.
Sera wakes up, hearing thousands screaming in Lasania. She arrives at Lasania to find everyone she cares about and the entire city dead. Her mother, her sister and her sister-in-law is among the dead.
Kyn arrives to tell her this is Kolis’s answer to her proposed deal.
Sera loses control, and destroy Dalos. Then she kills Embris. Realizing her actions caused thousands of lives as well, she tries to bring them back in regret. Holland, the Arae and the closest person she has to her father arrives, and stops her.
Attes arrives and tells Sera she needs to ascend someone to take Kyn’s place. Seraphena ascends Penellaphe as the Primal of Wisdom, Duty and Loyalty.
Having baited Sera into lashing out and using a lot of her power, Kolis arrives.
They begin fighting and Kolis taunts Sera about everything he’s going to do to Sera and Nyktos. As the fighting continues, Ward (Viktor) decapitates Kolis.
Sera returns home, devastated by her actions and riddled by guilt, shifts into her cavecat form. Nektas comforts her as Nyktos ushering everyone’s souls at the pillars.
Nyktos arrives and Sera makes him promise that if she ever lashes out like this, consumed by her rage and grief, Nyktos has to put her to stasis. Nyktos reluctantly agrees.
Born of Blood and Ash Ending Explained
Sera finally catches up to the symptoms she’s been feeling and realizes she might be pregnant. They ask the god Amos, who confirms she’s pregnant with twins. Sera and Nyktos are both thrilled.
Nyktos however, grows very overprotective and asks Sera to stay back in the future fights. They eventually compromise, and Sera decides to fight as long as she’s not injured or wounded.
They decide to first take Veses’s court, realizing there is no redemption for her. They kill Veses and Sera absorbs the court into her own power.
Attes also agrees that there is no more goodness in her brother, and they decide to take Kyn. A battle ensues and heartbreaking losses happen.
They arrange another meeting with Kolis, this time in Bonelands.
Kolis shows up armed. They fight and Sera stabs Kolis. They suppress his power with ancient bones and entomb Kolis.
Sera looks for the Star to release Sotoria’s soul to find that it’s gone. The fates took the Star and tell Sera Sotoria has to be reborn.
The fates reveal that Sotoria is part of Sera’s bloodline. Realizing the importance of her bloodline once ore, Sera realizes that’s why she was Chosen.
The foreboding prophecy, however, mentions the second daughter. Therefore, Sotoria has to be reborn as a second daughter into their bloodline to fulfill the prophecy. The fates promise to let Sotoria reborn when Sera’s bloodline has two daughters.
This future daughter will achieve their ultimate goal and kill Kolis. She will also be Sotoria reborn.
The prequel series wrap up with Ash and Sera finding comfort in one another and their unborn babies.
Sera decides to hide her name from the history and conceal her identity in order to prevent someone unintentionally bringing the end of times by uttering it.
Nyktos hates this idea as he’ll take all the credit for Seraphena’s work but Sera doesn’t care as long as people who love her who she is.
With that, we’ve wrapped the prequel series! Although I’m partial to From Blood and Ash, I love Born of Blood and Ash because we finally get the complete prophecy.
Did you like the prequel series more than the current timeline? What are your biggest theories for The Primal of Blood and Bone! Let us know in the comments.
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