The Immortals · Book 3
Emperor Mage
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780439011594
- Type
- novel
About this book
Emperor Mage (1995) grew again to 352 pages, continuing Daine's escalating battle with the returning immortals while Tamora Pierce deepens the slow-burn mentor-student dynamic between Daine and Numair that becomes one of the quietly significant relationships in the wider Tortall universe.
Its place in The Immortals
Emperor Mage is book 3 in the The Immortals series. It follows Wolf-Speaker. It is followed by The Realms of the Gods. See the full The Immortals reading order.
The Immortals moves Tortall's focus to a new heroine, Daine, a refugee girl with an unusually powerful and uncontrolled version of wild magic -- the ability to speak with and eventually transform into animals -- who's taken in as the royal menagerie's assistant handler and, before long, apprenticed to the kingdom's most powerful mage, Numair Salmalin. The series' hook is baked into its title: immortal creatures out of legend -- griffins, dragons, spidrens, and worse -- have begun crossing back into the mortal…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439011594