ianthe is the only living lyctor who hasn’t done any of the following:
1) been romantically involved with a dead body
2) fucked god
3) consumed the soul of someone she actually loved
and additionally ianthe has DIRECTLY been responsible of saving the life of:
- camilla hect
- gideon nav
- harrowhark nonagesimus
- god (and by proxy, the whole nine houses)
in any other book series we could probably mark her down as a protagonist but all of this is negated by the fact that ianthe is just totally, completely, unforgivably and unapologetically AWFUL and a girlbossing, gaslighting, gatekeeping BITCH