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Blood of Dragons

Blood of Dragons

Epic FantasyFantasy
Pages
496
Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

The dragons and their keepers have at last reached the lost Elderling city of Kelsingra, but survival is far from assured. The dragons need the city's fabled silver wells to stay healthy, and the humans cannot find them among Kelsingra's vast, empty buildings. To uncover the secrets they need, the keepers risk memory walking: immersing themselves in the dangerously addictive recollections stored in the city's memory stones, reliving the lives of long-dead Elderlings. The price is steep. Rapskal, plunging deepest into the past, grows less like himself and more like Tellator, the belligerent Elderling warrior whose memories he plunders. As the keepers continue their transformation into beautiful Elderlings shaped by their dragons, threats close in from beyond the city, and the dying Duke of Chalced's agents still hunt dragon flesh, while in Bingtown Malta and Reyn's ailing infant can be saved only by a dragon's intervention. This final volume of the Rain Wild Chronicles, the second half of a sequel split by the publisher, draws together the threads of the journey, restoring Kelsingra and resolving the fates of dragons, keepers, and the Elderlings tied to the older Realm of the Elderlings stories as the dragons reclaim their place in the world.

Prose complexity
6/10

Vibe

AtmosphericTenseEmotionalHopefulReflective
Found FamilyQuestSurvivalMultiple POVsMorally GreySacrificeComing of Age

Genres

Epic Fantasy Fantasy High Fantasy

About the author

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Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb is the principal pen name of American fantasy author Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, born in 1952 in California. She spent her childhood from around age ten in Fairbanks, Alaska, and that rural Pacific Northwest and Alaskan upbringing informs much of her work. She published her first novel at thirty while working as a waitress and raising four children, her husband often away at sea as a commercial fisherman. From the early 1980s she wrote as Megan Lindholm, producing more grounded, o...

Characters

ThymaraProtagonist

Now transforming into an Elderling, she comes into her own among the keepers in Kelsingra.

AliseProtagonist

The scholar, now settled at Kelsingra and bound to Leftrin.

SedricSupporting

The once-unlikeliest keeper, now transformed into an Elderling and redeemed.

TatsSupporting

A keeper and Thymara's close companion as the keepers settle Kelsingra.

Selden VestritSupporting

Malta's brother, whose fate ties into the Chalced threat and the dragons.

All characters in Blood of Dragons

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Blood of Dragons the end of the series?

    Yes. It is the fourth and final volume of the Rain Wild Chronicles, concluding the dragons' and keepers' story at Kelsingra.

  • Why is finding the silver wells so important?

    The dragons need the city's mythical silver wells to stay healthy and survive, but the humans cannot locate them within Kelsingra's vast empty structures.

  • What is 'memory walking'?

    It is the dangerous, addictive practice of immersing oneself in the memories of long-dead Elderlings stored in Kelsingra's memory stones, used by the keepers to recover lost knowledge.

  • What happens to Rapskal?
  • Does the book connect to the Liveship Traders?

    Yes. Storylines involving Malta, Reyn, their imperiled child, and the dragon Tintaglia tie the conclusion back to the earlier Liveship Traders trilogy.

  • Was this originally part of City of Dragons?

    Yes. City of Dragons and Blood of Dragons were written as one novel that the publisher split, so Blood of Dragons completes that sequel.

  • Does the series end happily?
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