Learning from his previous mistakes, he frees these slaves and takes responsibility for their actions to gain their allegiance. Darrow prefers that his captured foes swear their allegiance and join him, rather than serve him. Darrow and Mustang begin to amass an army by recruiting many Oathbreakers, the wandering slaves who have chosen to disobey orders, with Minerva's standard. Conquered students are systematically "enslaved" by other Houses, forced by their honor to serve their conquerors. They begin to develop romantic feelings for each other as they flee to avoid discovery by Cassius, now Primus of House Mars. Cassius challenges Darrow to a duel outside Mars' fortress, wounding him and leaving him to die.ĭarrow is rescued and nursed back to health by Mustang. Lilath, a messenger from the Jackal, secretly reveals to Cassius that Darrow killed Julian. Antonia and some of Titus' former followers attempt to overthrow Darrow, but he manages to thwart their plan. Mustang reveals the existence of "the Jackal", the leader of House Pluto who is terrorizing other Houses. Darrow captures Minerva's fortress and defeats their strongman Pax au Telemanus. To maintain his cover, Darrow allows Titus to be executed. Darrow realizes from the captive Titus' manner of speech that he is a fellow Red impersonating a Gold.
Darrow takes over as the Primus (leader) of Mars, and Sevro and his group of "Howlers" declare their loyalty to him. Sevro helps Darrow escape and capture Minerva's standard, which he trades to reclaim Mars' castle. Mustang and her troops take the Mars fortress and imprison Titus. To neutralize the violent Titus, who has been raping the female slaves left in Mars' fortress, Darrow manipulates House Minerva, led by the young woman he met briefly upon his arrival at the Institute and whom he has dubbed "Mustang". Mars fractures into factions: one led jointly by Darrow and Cassius, one by Antonia, one by Titus au Ladros, and the antisocial Sevro going off on his own. Darrow is forced to murder Cassius' brother Julian to survive, but Cassius can only guess who killed him.Įach House is assigned a fortress and a scepter, called a standard, to defend within the Institute's confines, with the goal of warring with each other until one House enslaves the others with the standard. To continue to the next stage, Darrow must complete the Passage, a test in which the 100 newly chosen students in each of the twelve Houses are paired with another house member and tasked to kill each other as a means to eliminate the weaker half. Darrow is selected for House Mars by Fitchner. Using a fabricated identity Darrow is accepted into the Golds' elite Institute, where he befriends Cassius au Bellona and alienates the arrogant Antonia au Severus. He is physically transformed by Mickey, a Violet "carver", who gives him the abilities and appearance of a Gold. Ares have adopted the video of Eo's song and execution as a rallying vehicle for their cause.ĭarrow is given the chance to infiltrate the Society to bring it down from within. However, Darrow awakes to find that he has been drugged and delivered into the hands of the Sons of Ares, a group of Red and others who fight against the oppression of the "low Colors". Darrow cuts down and buries his wife's body, a crime for which he is also hanged. She is subsequently hanged on the orders of the Mars' ArchGovernor. While Eo is publicly whipped for her crime she sings a forbidden folk song as a protest against the Reds enslavement.
He and his wife Eo are captured after entering a forbidden area and are arrested. Sixteen-year-old Darrow is a Red, a class of workers who toil beneath the surface of Mars mining helium-3 to terraform the planet.
The powerful ruling class of humans has installed a rigid, color-based social hierarchy where the physically superior Golds at the top rule with an iron fist. It has been seven hundred years since mankind colonized other planets. A six-issue prequel comic book series, Red Rising: Sons of Ares, was published in 2017.
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Brown began developing Red Rising as a television series in 2018, and later announced that the potential series had a director and a showrunner with either Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, Amazon Prime or HBO interested in adapting the series as of September 2021. In 2014, Universal Pictures secured the rights for a film adaptation, but the project was eventually scrapped. Red Rising has received generally positive reviews. The novel, set in the future on Mars, follows lowborn miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite Golds. Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown, and the first book and eponym of a series.
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