The Immortals
1 - Wild Magic
2 - Wolf-Speaker
3 - Emperor Mage
4 - In the Realms of the Gods
Chapter 1: Girl With a Pony
Onua meets Daine at a fair in Cria, Galla, and hires her as her assistant. Daine has an uncanny knack with animals. Onua and Daine head south towards Tortall. Daine has her first meeting with the Badger God and he gives her a silver claw. She hangs it around her neck.
Chapter 2: The Hawk
Onua and Daine cross over the River Drell. Daine has her first meeting with Zhaneh Bitterclaws, the Stormwing queen, when she is searching for a spy. The Stormwings attack Daine and Onua and wild birds come to their rescue. Daine finds the hawk that the Stormwings were after and brings him back to Onua. He has a broken wing and refuses to eat. Onua finally uses her Gift to call for help. It arrives in the form of the King's Own and the Lioness. Alanna enlists Daine's help to heal the hawk and Daine is surprised to see that the hawk is actually a man.
Chapter 3: Spidrens and Meditation
Daine senses trouble and Alanna's ember-stone warns her of danger. Spidrens attack them and they manage to kill them. Daine learns that the hawk, Numair Salmalin, is a mage and a shape-shifter. He was spying on Lord Syntha, who was trading with Carthak, but he was caught. Alanna and the King's Own leave. Numair wakes up and upsets Daine by asking if she has the Gift. Numair and Onua start teaching Daine how to meditate. On the road, they meet the King's Own and Alanna again. They head into Corus.
Chapter 4: The Queen's Riders
Onua hires Daine permanently. Daine meets Buri, Sarge and Queen Thayet. She also meets some of the Queen's Rider's trainees and helps them choose their ponies. That night the Stormwings attack and the animals come to the rescue again.
Chapter 5: Wild Magic
Daine meets King Jonathon and Numair tells her that she has wild magic. They also discuss the situation with the Immortals. Numair starts teaching Daine how to use her magic and she almost forgets she's human when she loses control. They see a water-sprite. Numair also gives her books on animals to read.
Chapter 6: Magelet
Daine loses control of her magic again in meditation and Cloud brings her out of it. The trainees set out for the summer camp (at Pirate's Swoop this year) and Daine practices calling animals to her. On the beach, she hears the whales and meets a sea lion. The Badger God also comes again. Daine tells Onua and Numair about what happened to her family and her madness.
Chapter 7: Buzzard Rocks
Numair helps Daine separate herself from the animals so that she doesn't lose control and she heals an otter with a broken leg. She stops her own heart when she tries to hear the dolphins. Alanna brings her back. She senses Stormwings and finds out that they are lined up along the coast watching them. They run into griffins near the village of Buzzard Rocks and Daine convinces the griffins to leave the villagers alone if the villagers stay away from their nests.
Chapter 8: Pirate's Swoop
The trainees reach Pirate's Swoop. Daine meets George. Thayet's eldest children, Prince Roald and Princess Kalasin are there as well. Daine, Alanna and Numair scry for the Stormwings but they have vanished. Thom, Kally and Roald take a liking to Daine and follow her around, helping in the stable. Alanna is called off to fight ogres and the bats bring Daine word that they have been surrounded by raiders in the dark.
Chapter 9: Siege
A fog comes over Pirate's Swoop, carrying with it dampening spells. Numair manages to get word out to the King before the fog comes over. When the fog leaves, Carthaki boats and war-barges are seen. A Stormwing comes with the terms that Thayet and her children must be surrendered. George rips the piece of paper up. The Stormwings and the Carthakis attack. Numair holds off the dampening spells so that others with the Gift can work and Daine holds back her animal friends, who want to help fight. A dragon tries to attack them, desperate to get back to the Divine Realms and Daine realizes that she is pregnant. She sets the dragon straight and the dragon flies off along the cliffs.
Chapter 10: Listening Far Enough
Daine allows her animal friends to help fight and she asks the whales for help to take care of the boats, but the whales refuse to kill. She searches further towards the Copper Isles where she finds a kraken who is eager to help. The dragon takes Daine from the rocks back to Pirate's Swoop. The dragon leaves again after dropping Daine off. Zhaneh Bitterclaws asks if they will surrender, and Thayet refuses. The dragon attacks the Carthakis and they kill her with liquid fire from catapults. Just before she dies, she sends Daine a vision of light coming from a cave mouth. The kraken arrives and destroys the rest of the boats. Alanna and the King's Own arrive to take care of the Stormwings and raiders. Daine kills Zhaneh Bitterclaws.
Epilogue
Alanna and Numair convince the kraken to leave. Daine finds the dragon's baby, whom the mother named Skysong. Thayet, Alanna and Numair all offer Daine a home.
Chapter 1: Encounters
Daine and Numair go to Long Lake to help Daine's wolf friends. Daine introduces Numair, Kitten, Mangle and Spots to Brokefang, the leader of the pack. Brokefang explains the situation to them. Daine also meets the Badger God again, who tells her that she can go inside animals' heads. They run into the Stormwings and Brokefang explains that the Stormwings are working with the humans.
Chapter 2: The Valley of the Long Lake
Brokefang introduces them to his mate Frostfur. Daine also meets their pups. While checking out the northern part of the valley, they see ogres being used as slaves. Daine and Numair ride to the village and book into an inn. That night they head to Castle Dunlath. Numair meets the Carthaki war-mage Tristan Staghorn.
Chapter 3: Fugitives
Daine befriends ten-year-old Lady Maura and asks the Dunlaths to stop mining and chopping down trees. They laugh at her. Numair knows something is up and he and Daine head back to the wolves in the middle of the night. Numair heads out of the valley to warn the king and Daine stays with the wolves.
Chapter 4: Brokefang Acts
The wolves steal some axes from the camp. Daine continues her experiments of going into Brokefang's mind. She also heals an injured squirrel. She and the wolves are attacked by a Coldfang and are saved by the basilisk Tkaa. He returns to camp with them.
Chapter 5: The Trap
Daine runs into the Stormwings again but Tkaa steers them away. Maura has run away from home and is found by the wolf pack. Daine discovers that a magical barrier has closed off the valley. Only Tkaa, since he's an Immortal, can go through it. Daine goes into the mind of a bat to scope it out and has an encounter with a hurrok.
Chapter 6: Rebellion
Tkaa goes through the barrier to warn Numair about the Stormwings. Daine meets the Stormwing Rikash Moonsword, who has befriended Maura. Maura tells Daine that her family is planning to overthrow Jon. Daine goes into the mind of a marmot Quickmunch to tell Numair. Tkaa finds opals.
Chapter 7: Counting Soldiers
Daine goes into the squirrel Flicker's mind. They go to have a look at the fort. Rikash catches them reading the duty roster and chases them away. Daine figures out that she can transform completely into animals. She also meets the Badger God again. Daine, Maura, Tkaa and Kitten head to the northern fort. Daine goes into Flicker again to have a look around.
Chapter 8: Friends
They meet Iakoju (an ogre) and she joins them. The hound, Prettyfoot, asks for Daine's help. Her master, Tait, has been caught in one of the wolves' traps. Tkaa delivers Daine's letter to Numair. Tait tells Daine about the bloodrain. Alanna and Raoul join Numair at the barrier but still cannot break it. Daine goes into the cat Blueness and learns about Tristan's plan for the bloodrain. She writes what she found out in a letter to Numair.
Chapter 9: War is Declared
Daine uses Quickmunch to talk to Numair, Alanna and Raoul. Numair tells Daine that she has to destroy the model of the valley that Tristan used to cast his barrier spell. Daine goes into the eage Huntsong's mind and is attacked by Stormwings. They get to the village. Daine, Kitten and the cats sneak into the castle and meet Yolane. She flees and on her way to the tower, Daine is attacked by a Coldfang.
Chapter 10: The Fall of Tristan and Yolane
Daine kills the Coldfang and the cat goddess Queenclaw brings the kitten Scrap back to life. Daine destroys the model and is found later on by Numair. Numair then goes in search of Tristan. They duel and Numair turns him into an apple tree. Daine meets Rikash again. Rikash leaves the valley. Daine transforms into a wolf and joins the pack on the hunt for Yolane. They find her and take her to Numair, Alanna and Raoul.
Epilogue
Daine says goodbye to Maura and her new friends. Maura has promised the ogres that she will give them some land to farm. Daine sees the two wolf-gods and she and Numair head home.
Chapter 1: Guests in Carthak
The Tortallian peace delegation arrives in Carthak. The Badger God gives Daine a new power and she is introduced to Prince Kaddar. She also saves a pygmy marmoset from crocs. She names him Zekoi (Zek for short). The tiger rug in her room comes to life.
Chapter 2: Imperial Welcome
The delegation meets Emperor Ozorne. Numair is reunited with Varice, his former lover. Ozorne takes Daine to see his birds and she cures them of their illness. The next day the delegation is invited to take a tour of Ozorne's menagerie.
Chapter 3: Hall of Bones
Daine meets caged hyenas and Immortals. Among the Immortals is the Stormwing Queen Barzha and her mate Hebakb. Daine also meets the Graveyard Hag, disguised as a slave. The tiger skin rug comes to life again. Daine asks to have it removed. The peace talks begin. Lindhall takes Daine on a tour of the Hall of Bones. That night in the banquet hall, Daine sees Ozorne talking to two Stormwings. One is Rikash.
Chapter 4: Strange Conversations
Ozorne introduces the two Stormwings to the delegation. Daine meets the Banjiku tribesmen and she tells Rikash about Barzha. Rikash flies off and she later sees him talking to the Graveyard Hag (still disguised as a slave). Rikash gives Ozorne a Stormwing feather with a promise that if he drives it into his flesh when his life and throne are in peril, he will fly from his enemies as if winged by steel. Daine visits Ozorne's birds again and she hears Numair and Ozorne arguing. Numair tries to hit Ozorne. Daine shows Alanna and Numair her new power by bringing a vulture back to life.
Chapter 5: Palace Tour
Kaddar takes Daine on a tour of the temples. They are practically abandoned. Daine sees the Graveyard Hag again and realizes that she is the slave. She also shows some boys how good she is with a bow.
Chapter 6: Carthaki Mage-Craft
Lightning melts two statues of Ozorne. This is the first of the gods' signs. Kaddar takes Daine to the university and she meets Numair there, who has snuck out of the palace. At the banquet held on Ozorne's boat a statue of the first emperor Zernou comes to life (the second of the gods' signs). The peace talks take a turn for the worse when Ozorne wants Princess Kalasin to marry Kaddar even though the princess is too young.
Chapter 7: Waking Dreams
Daine brings a lizard-bird back to life. Lindhall gets sentimental and names him Bonedancer. That night, rats come through a gateway in Varice's cake (the third and last warning). Daine forces them back in. She also visits the hyenas again and learns of the prophecy.
Chapter 8: The Badger Returns
Daine talks to the captive Stormwings and the Banjiku Tano helps her and Kaddar escape before the guards catch them. Daine meets the Graveyard Hag again and wakes up to find herself and Kitten in the Hall of Bones. Daine brings to life an entire nest of dinosaur eggs and dies. The Badger God brings her back from the Divine Realms. Daine goes to look at the Emperor's birds again and finds that they're sick again. She finds the cause of their illness and heals them. Ozorne invites Daine to eat with him and he drugs her drink. Daine falls asleep.
Chapter 9: Daine Loses Her Temper
Kitten is captured by Ozorne but Zek escapes. The delegation, minus Numair, leaves for Tortall to warn the king. Daine wakes up in a magically shielded room. Zek and Tano's cheetah rescue her with stolen keys. Tano brings Kaddar to Daine and he tells her that Numair was executed. Daine uses her power and that of the rats to bring the all the dinosaurs in the Hall of Bones to life. They set to work destroying the palace.
Chapter 10: Silver Feather
Ozorne is cornered by by Daine in hyena form and the other hyenas. He drives the feather into his flesh and turns into a Stormwing. He flees and Rikash goes after him. Numair arrives and tells Daine that the Numair Ozorne executed was a simulacrum (I can spell it. Yay!) The Graveyard Hag takes her power back from Daine and Kaddar becomes Emperor of Carthak.
Epilogue
The delegation has returned to Carthak. Daine sleeps for four days. Lindhall and Bonedancer plan to go back to Tortall with the delegation. Daine asks Kaddar to free the Emperor's mutes (some agree to stay with Kaddar) and the Banjiku.
Prologue
The barrier between the Realms falls.
Chapter 1: Skinners
Ozorne plots to kill Daine and Numair. Jon's forces are stretched thin trying to deal with the rogue Immortals. Daine and Numair leave Port Legann to deal with some Skinners. They are taken into the Divine Realms and the Badger God takes care of the Skinners. Daine wakes up and meets her father Weiryn.
Chapter 2: Meetings With Gods
Daine meets Broad Foot, the duckmole god, and a darking. The skink goddess tells Daine about Chaos-vents.
Chapter 3: Dreams
Daine learns that the great gods are having trouble with Uusoae, the goddess of Chaos. She meets the dream god Gainel and is attacked by a tauros. Rikash arrives to see Daine and tells her that Ozorne escaped them. He suggests that the dragons might take her and Numair back to the Mortal Realms.
Chapter 4: Travellers
Daine, Numair, Broad Foot and the Badger God head to Temptation Lake on their way to the Dragonlands. The darking comes along with Daine. Daine saves Numair from being sucked into a Chaos-vent in the lake. Another darking joins Daine.
Chapter 5: The Bridge
While crossing the First Bridge Daine and Numair are attacked by hurroks. A third darking joins Daine and she realises that they are Ozorne's spies. They agree to help her and she names them Gold-streak, Jelly and Leaf. Numair figures out that the other darkings Ozorne created are spying on the Tortallians in the Mortal Realms. Port Legann is attacked by wyverns again.
Chapter 6: Chess Game
Gold-streak leaves to convince his kinfolk to switch sides. Daine and Numair cross safely through the Mauler's swamp. They have a dream of a large chess board where they are all pieces. Broad Foot leaves to hold back one of the Three Surrows, Malady. Daine falls off a cliff.
Chapter 7: Falling
She is caught by spidrens and Numair rescues her. Daine realises that she loves Numair. They arrive at the Sea of Sand and the Stormwings carry them over. Daine and Numair go into the Dragonlands.
Chapter 8: Dragonlands
Daine meets Kitten's grandfather Diamondflame. Wingstar and Diamondflame take them back to the Mortal Realms. After a chat with Broad Foot they agree to help them defend Port Legann from Ozorne's forces. The Stormwings also agree to help, having their own score to settle with Ozorne.
Chapter 9: The Battle of Legann
The dragons take on the ships and Daine changes into a merlin to take on the enemy. Jon uses the Jewel and Numair faces off against the Scanran mage Inar Hadensra. Rikash is killed by a serpent. Daine goes after Ozorne and kills him. Mother Flame and Father Universe banish Uusoae back to the Chaos Realm after she tries to cross into the Mortal Realms. Daine meets the great gods and they ask her if she wants to become a goddess. She chooses to stay mortal and the dragons take her back to the Mortal Realms.
Epilogue
Daine finds Numair exhausted after his fight with Inar.