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TORTALLBOOKS
BYTAMORAPIERCE
The Song of the Lioness Quartet
Alanna: The First Adventure
In the Hand of the Goddess
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Lioness Rampant
THE IMMORTALS QUARTET
Wild Magic
Wolf-Speaker
Emperor Mage
The Realms of the Gods
Protector of the Small
First Test
Page
Squire
Lady Knight
TAMORA PIERCE captured the imagination of readers twenty years ago withAlanna:
The First Adventure . As of August 2003 she has written twenty-one books,
including three completed quartets—The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, and
The Protector of the Small—set in the fantasy realm of Tortall. She has also
written the Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens quartets. Her books have been
translated into many different languages, and many are available on audio.
Tamora Pierce’s fast-paced, suspenseful writing and strong, believable heroines
have won her much praise:Emperor Mage was a 1996 ALA Best Book for Young
Adults,The Realms of the Gods was listed as an “outstanding fantasy novel”
byVOYA in 1996,Squire (Protector of the Small #3) was a 2002 ALA Best Book for
Young Adults, andLady Knight (Protector of the Small #4) debuted at #1 on theNew
York Times bestsellers list.
An avid reader herself, Ms. Pierce graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania. She has worked at a variety of jobs and has written everything
from novels to radio plays. Along with writer Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries
series), she co-founded Sheroes Central, a discussion board about female heroes,
remarkable women in fact, fiction, and history, books, and teen issues. She now
runs Sheroes Central and Sheroes Fans with the help of her beloved
Spouse-Creature and dedicated board members of all ages.
Tamora Pierce lives in New York City with her husband, Tim, a writer and Web
page designer and administrator, and their four cats, two birds, and various
rescued wildlife.
For more information visit:
www.tamora-pierce.com
Sheroes Central at:
www.sheroescentral.com
To Phyllis Westberg,
for knowing the best time to fire me and
for giving me the best rewrite advice
I’ve ever gotten:
read aloud
In a time of fear, the One Who I Promised will come to the raka, bearing glory
in her train and justice in her hand. She will restore the god to his proper
temple and his children to her right hand. She will be twice royal, wise and
beloved, a living emblem of truth to her people. She will be attended by a wise
one, the cunning one, the strong one, the warrior, and the crows. She will give
a home to all, and the kudarung will fly in her honor.
—From the Kyprish Prophecy, written in the year 200H.E.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
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Alan of Pirate’s SwoopAlianne’s sixteen-year-old twin brother, a
third-year page
Alanna of Pirate’s Swoop and Olauthe King’s Champion, lady knight
Alianne of Pirate’s Swoopdaughter of Alanna the Lioness and George, baron
of Pirate’s Swoop
Arakherding dog
Athan Fajeringdisgraced luarin nobleman
Bonedancerliving Archaeopteryx (dinosaur bird) skeleton
Bronau Jimajennon-royal luarin prince of the Copper Isles
Buri (Buriram)former commander of the Queen’s Riders
Chenaolfree raka servant and head cook for the Balitangs
CinnamonAly’s chestnut mare
Coram Smythessonbaron of Tortall
Daine (Veralidaine)half-goddess, called the Wildmage for her skills with
animals, Aly’s adoptive aunt
DarkmoonAlanna’s horse
Dilsubai Haiminglast raka queen of the Copper Isles
Dovasary (Dove)Mequen’s half-raka daughter from first marriage
DunevonKing Oron’s youngest child, son of third marriage, heir to Hazarin
EkitVisda’s brother, Tanair herdboy, raka
Eleni of OlauAly’s grandmother
ElsrenMequen’s second full-luarin child with Winnamine
Falthinpart-raka bowyer at Tanair
Fesgaoraka man-at-arms who protects Sarai and Dove
Gary (Gareth the Younger)heir to fief Naxen, King Jonathan’s principal
advisor
George of Pirate’s SwoopAlanna’s husband and Aly’s father, baron and
second-in-command of his realm’s spies
Graceherding dog
Graveyard Hagtrickster and primary goddess of Carthak, Kyprioth’s
kinswoman
Gurhartpart-raka merchant, caravan leader
Hanorenson of King Oron’s second marriage
Hasuipart-raka kitchen slave and royal spy
HazarinKing Oron’s half brother
Ianjaiwealthy raka merchant family
ImajaneKing Oron’s half sister
Imiary VIsecond-to-last raka queen
Imrah of Legannlord, knight-master to Prince Roald
Jafanaformer luarin nursemaid to Petranne and Elsren
Jonathan of Contéking of Tortall
Junai Dodekaraka daughter of Ulasim, Aly’s guard
Kaddar Iliniatemperor of Carthak
Keladry of Mindelancalled Kel, lady knight
Kypriothtrickster god
LandfallTortallan spy in Scanra
Lokeijraka hostler for the Balitangs
Ludas Jimajensecond-in-command of the luarin invasion of the Copper Isles
Maggur RathhausakScanran king and warlord
Maude Tannerhousekeeper and healer at Pirate’s Swoop
Mequenexiled luarin duke, head of the Balitang family
Musenda Ogunsanwo (Sarge)training master of the Queen’s Riders
Myles of Olau, baronAly’s grandfather, head of royal intelligence service
(spies)
Nawat Crowa crow who turned himself into a man
Numair Salmalínpowerful mage, Daine’s husband
NuritinDuke Mequen’s luarin aunt
Ochobu Dodekaraka mage and mother of Ulasim
Onua Chamtonghorsemistress to the Queen’s Riders
Oron Rittevonmentally-ill king of the Copper Isles
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Pemberypart-raka, slave of the Balitang family
PetranneMequen’s first child with Winnamine
PiliaPohon resident, watches Ochobu’s house
Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie’s Peaklord, Knight Commander of the King’s
Own, Tortallan hero, known as the Giant Killer
Rihaniraka healer
Rispahbaroness of Trebond
Rittevon of Lenmanleader of luarin invasion
Rubinyan Jimajenluarin husband of Princess Imajane, Bronau’s older brother
Saraiyu (Sarai)Mequen’s oldest daughter, half-raka, from his first
marriage
SarraDaine’s mother, now the minor goddess The Green Lady
Sarugani of TemaidaMequen’s first wife, raka, mother of Dove and Sarai,
died in a tragic riding accident
Thayet of ContéQueen of Tortall, co-ruler with her husband, King Jonathan
Thom of Pirate’s SwoopAly’s eighteen-year-old brother, a student mage
Tulpamiller’s daughter at Tanair
Tyanannewidowed luarin noblewoman
Ulasimfree raka servant and head footman to the Balitangs
Veronluarin sergeant in command of the Balitang men-at-arms
Visdaraka niece of Chenaol, goat herder
Winnamineexiled duchess, Mequen’s second wife
Wyldon of Cavalllord, district commander of Tortall’s army in the north
Zeburonroyal council member, enemy of Rubinyan
fromThe Luarin Conquest:
New Rulers in the Copper Isles
by Michabur Durse of Queenscove,
published in 312H.E.
In the bloody decades before the year 174 of the Human Era, the Kyprish Isles
were locked in strife. Rival branches of the royal house traded the throne on a
number of occasions. In turn the crown had lost control over the warring houses
of theraka, or native, nobility. Scholars said of those years that only the
jungles prospered, for the trees and vines fed on the blood of the raka. During
this time the Isles exported more slaves than imported them: victors sold their
enemies into the Eastern and Southern Lands, only to enter slavery in their own
turn when they lost the next battle.
Queen Imiary VI of the house of Haiming made repeated attempts to negotiate
peace among the raka. Her efforts failed. She was overthrown after twelve years
of rule. Her successor and murderer, Queen Dilsubai, also a Haiming, favored
those nobles who supported her shaky claim to the throne, and imprisoned their
rivals. The glorious days of the copper-skinned warrior queens of the Isles were
over.
On the mainland, the pale-skinned easterners calledluarin by the Kyprish people
saw the disorder, and the wealth, of the Isles. Rittevon of Lenman, younger son
of a lesser noble house in Maren, found opportunity in the Isles’ disorder. He
raised funds and allies among the realms of Tusaine, Galla, Tortall, Maren,
Sarain, and Tortall’s southern neighbor Barzun.*For an army he summoned younger
sons, adventurers, and mercenaries, all bought by the promise of the Isles’
wealth. With them came battle mages trained in the arts of war at the university
in Carthak. Rittevon and his chief ally, Ludas Jimajen, son of a Tyran merchant
clan, placed their souls in pawn for the gold that bought the services of their
battle mages. They bought all the raka nobles they could in advance, promising
them status when Rittevon sat the throne.
The first assault came in stealth on April 5, 174H.E. The invaders struck not
the capital at Rajmuat, where rival Haiming cousins fought over the crown, but
the stronghold of the noble house Malubesai, on the southern island that bears
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their name. This most powerful clan was taken completely by surprise. Their
homes were left in ruins, their warriors in mass graves, and their descendants
in chains, all at the hands of the luarin mages.
For the next seven years, luarin ships and armies ranged the islands from
Malubesang to Lombyn, from Imahyn to Tongkang. Lesser raka nobles and various
clans, seeing how the wind blew, offered their allegiance to the conquerors.
These became the lesser nobility of the Isles, allowed to retain lands, freedom,
and lives, but taxed into poverty after their strongholds were destroyed. For
the greatest raka nobles and the royal house of Haiming, the luarin offered only
slavery or death. On Midsummer’s Day 181H.E. , the first Rittevon king was
crowned as ruler of the newly renamed Copper Isles.
The domination of the raka people continued. The luarin nobles—once tailor’s
sons and blacksmiths, landless younger sons and mercenaries—took for their new
houses and fiefdoms the names of the land and the old noble houses. More luarin
arrived to settle and do business. Marriage among the raka was encouraged for
the luarin lower classes, producing a multitude of part-raka servants and
slaves. The luarin were there to stay.
Like most who lose such struggles, the raka declared that only war in the Divine
Realms explained the failure of their patron god, Kyprioth, to defeat the
luarin. The luarin priests taught, and the raka people believed, that Kyprioth’s
divine brother and sister, the war god Mithros and the Great Mother Goddess, had
overthrown him. It was these gods, the priests of both races said, who took the
right to govern the islands, while they gave Kyprioth lordship only over the
local seas, to keep him occupied under their eyes.
Soon after the last battle of the luarin conquest, an ancient priestess gave
voice not to her own prayers, but to the banished god Kyprioth. His promise was
passed from raka slave to raka freeman, from raka mothers or fathers to their
part-luarin children. Kyprioth told his people that the efforts of the luarin
kings to erase the Haiming line had failed. One branch of the old royalty yet
survived. The Queen’s prophecy is his promise that, from that surviving branch,
the One Who Is Promised would come. She would be the Queen with two crowns,
chosen by the god to lead the Isles and those who love them to freedom once
more.
1
PARENTS
March 27–April 21, 462H.E.
Pirate’s Swoop, Tortall, on the coast of the Emerald Ocean
George Cooper, Baron of Pirate’s Swoop, second in command of his realm’s spies,
put his documents aside and surveyed his only daughter as she paused by his
study door. Alianne—known as Aly to her family and friends—posed there, arms
raised in a Player’s dramatic flourish. It seemed that she had enjoyed her
month’s stay with her Corus relatives.
“Dear Father, I rejoice to return from a sojourn in our gracious capital,” she
proclaimed in an overly elegant voice. “I yearn to be clasped to your bosom
again.”
For the most part she looked like his Aly. She wore a neat green wool gown,
looser than fashion required because, like her da, she carried weapons on her
person. A gold chain belt supported her knife and purse. Her hazel eyes
contained more green than George’s own, and they were set wide under straight
brown brows. Her nose was small and delicate, more like her mother’s than his.
She’d put a touch of color on her mouth to accent its width and full lower lip.
But her hair . . .
George blinked. For some reason, his child wore an old-fashioned wimple and
veil. The plain white linen covered her neck and hair completely.
He raised an eyebrow. “Do you plan to join the Players, then?” he asked mildly.
“Take up dancing, or some such thing?”
Aly dropped her pretense and removed her veil, the embroidered cloth band that
held it in place, and her wimple. Her hair, once revealed, was not its normal
shade of reddish blond, but a deep, pure sapphire hue.
George looked at her. His mouth twitched.
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“I know,” she said, shamefaced. “Forest green and blue go ill together.” She
smoothed her gown.
George couldn’t help it. He roared with laughter. Aly struggled with herself,
and lost, to grin in reply.
“What, Da?” she asked. “Apart from the colors, aren’t I in the very latest
fashion?”
George wiped his eyes on his sleeve. After a few gasps he managed to say,
“Whathave you done to yourself, girl?”
Aly touched the gleaming falls of her hair. “But Da,” she said, voice and lower
lip quivering in mock hurt, “it’s all the style at the university!” She resumed
her lofty manner. “I proclaim the shallowness of the world and of fashion. I
scorn those who sway before each breeze of taste that dictates what is stylish
in one’s dress, or face, or hair. I scoff at the hollowness of life.”
George still chuckled, shaking his head.
“Well, Da, that’s what the students say.” She plopped herself into a chair and
stretched her legs out to show off her shoes, brown leather stamped with gold
vines. “Theselook nice.”
“They’re lovely,” he told her with a smile. “Which ‘they’ is it that proclaim
the hollowness of the world?”
Aly flapped a hand in dismissal. “University students. Da, it’s the silliest
thing. One of the student mages brewed up a hair treatment. It’s supposed to
make your hair shiny and easy to comb, except it has a wee side effect. And of
course the students all decided that blue hair makes a grand statement.” She
lifted up a sapphire lock and admired it.
“So I see.” George thought of his oldest son, one of those very university
students. “Don’t tell me our Thom’s gone blue.”
Now it was Aly’s turn to raise a mocking eyebrow at her father. “Do you think he
even notices blue-haired people are about? Since they started bringing in the
magical devices from Scanra, he’s done nothing but take notes for the mages who
study how they’re made. The only reaction I got fromhim was ‘Ma better not see
you like that.’ I had to remind him Mother’s safely in the north, waiting for
the snows to melt so she can chop up more Scanrans.” Aly had left a pair of
saddlebags by the door. Now she fetched them and put them on a long table beside
George’s desk. “The latest documents from Grandda. He says to tell you no, you
can’t go north, you’re still needed to watch the coast. Raiding season will
begin soon.”
“He read my mind,” George said crossly. “That cursed war’s going into its second
year, your mother’s in the middle of it, or will be once the fighting warms up,
and I stay here, buried under paper.” He indicated his heaped desktop with a
wave of a big hand and glared at the saddlebags. “I’ve not seen her in a year,
for pity’s sake.”
“Grandda says he’s got an assistant trained for you,” Aly replied. “She’ll be
here in a month or so. Heis right. It’s no good holding Scanra off in the north
if Carthak or Tusaine or the Copper Isles try nipping up bits of the south.”
“Don’t teach your gran to make butter,” George advised her drily. “I learned
that lesson before you were born.” He knew Aly was right; he even knew that what
he did was necessary. He just missed his wife. They hadn’t been separated for
such a long stretch in their twenty-three years of marriage. “And an assistant
in a month does me no good now.”
Aly gave him her most charming smile. “Oh, but Da, now you’ve got me,” she said
as she gathered a wad of documents. “Grandda wanted me to take the job as it
was.”
“I thought he might,” George murmured, watching as she leafed through the papers
she held.
“I told him the same thing I did you,” replied Aly, setting documents in stacks
on the long table. “I love code breaking and knowing all the tittle-tattle, but
I’d go half mad having to do it all the time. I asked him if I could spy
instead. . . .”
“I said no,” George said flatly, hiding his alarm. The thought of his only
daughter living in the maze of dangers that was ordinary spy work, with torture
and death to endure if she were caught, made his hair stand on end.
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