The Halfblood Chronicles · Book 1
The Elvenbane
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 414
- ISBN-13
- 9781441814265
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Elvenbane opens the trilogy in 1991 at 414 pages, co-written by Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton to introduce Shana, secretly half-elf and half-human, after a rebel dragon rescues her from execution as an infant.
Its place in The Halfblood Chronicles
The Elvenbane is book 1 in the The Halfblood Chronicles series. It is followed by Elvenblood. See the full The Halfblood Chronicles reading order.
Written jointly by Mercedes Lackey and fantasy grandmaster Andre Norton, the Halfblood Chronicles is set in a world where high elves rule as slaveholding aristocrats over the humans of a Rome-like empire, treating both humans and magic itself as resources to be extracted. The Elvenbane introduces Shana, secretly raised as half-elf, half-human — a mixed heritage that should be impossible and that gives her power neither side fully understands — after a rebel dragon rescues her from execution as an infant and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781441814265