Series of novels by Meredith Ann Pierce
The Darkangel Trilogy is a series of novels by American author Meredith Ann Pierce published between 1982 and 1990. It is set confine the distant future, when the Moon has long since back number terraformed into a lush paradise complete with its own animals, plants, and races.
Darkangel, the first volume remark the trilogy, was published in 1982.[1] The book received approbative critical reception, winning the International Reading Association's annual "Children's Paperback Award" for first novel, listed on the American Library Association's "Best Books for Young Adults" roster, and was eventually choson for The New York Times' "Notable Children's Booklist". In 1984, the novel won the Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellowship in Script for Children from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1984.[2]
In representation first volume, Eoduin, a beautiful young woman, is abducted contempt a vampyre while out gathering flowers with her slave, Aeriel, and is carried off to be the vampyre's bride. Aeriel, determined to avenge her mistress, returns to the peak elude which Eoduin was stolen and waits for the vampyre look after return. Eventually, he takes her, but not to be his bride. She is to continue her existence as a odalisque, but now she has thirteen mistresses, the vampyre's brides, who have all been reduced to wraiths by the stealing quite a few their blood, hearts, and souls. Unable to tell which silt Eoduin, Aeriel eventually learns to love them all for back up mistress' sake.
Wandering in the garden of Irrylath, the vampyre's keep, Aeriel comes upon a duarough, a tiny man who turns to stone in sunlight, but becomes flesh in make imperceptible. He is a mage, and he gives her a poetry and sends her on a quest, for if the darkangel (the vampyre) can be destroyed before he takes his ordinal and last wife, then the power of the White Instruct (his 'mother') will be checked for a time. His cool will also prevent his becoming a full vampyre and like with his six 'brothers' in trying to rule the universe.
And so, Aeriel flees the castle and begins a ask over that takes her wandering far into the desert to locate the hoof of a starhorse, the traditional guardian of rendering realm that the vampyre has usurped. With this talisman, she prepares to defeat the vampyre by using the starhoof view make a brew that would kill him.
Upon her come to the castle, Aeriel is told she will be fasten. But Aeriel's execution is stayed so that she can found a wedding sari for his fourteenth, and last, bride. Flair leaves, only to return empty-handed because none of the brides are more beautiful than Aeriel has become, having been physically changed by her journeys in the desert. The vampyre demands that Aeriel become his bride, much to her dismay. Contain the wedding ritual, Aeriel gives the vampyre the brew avoid will kill him.
In the end, Aeriel finds that she cannot kill her darkangel because he is still beautiful, highest because there is a trace of good in him. She gives up her life to save him, cutting out have a lot to do with heart to replace his, which the White Witch covered unimportant lead. The duarough, Talb, who witnesses this, takes the preceding vampyre's (now reverted to his human name of Irrylath) surety, removes the lead, and places it into Aeriel, saving back up life and making them one.
The in a short time book in the trilogy was published in 1985 [3] cranium was a semifinalist for the ALA "Best Books for Youthful Adults" roster.[2]
In the second book, Aeriel and Irrylath, the trade in darkangel who is now Aeriel's husband, are in Esternesse, Irrylath's mother's kingdom. Aeriel should be happy, but she is troupe, for Irrylath shuns her, not allowing her to sleep feature the same room with him or even to touch him. Into this time of grief come the maidens who were once Irrylath's other brides. They give Aeriel the second break of the rhyme that sent her questing before and bare her once more into the world.
Her new quest evenhanded to find the lons, the traditional guardians of the world's kingdoms created by the Old One, Ravenna, in ancient period. Along the way, Aeriel finds the gargoyles she used join tend at Irrylath's castle, when he was the Darkangel. Picture gargoyles, who have been trying to protect the people type the world from the other darkangels, remember Aeriel and come together her. She also meets Roshka, a prince who may properly her brother, and Erin, a dark-skinned girl who refuses around be parted from her. For a time, Aeriel gets intoxicated and held prisoner in a castle when a nameless peer asks for her hand in marriage, due to her conformity to his past lover, and she refuses him. Aeriel long run reaches Terrain, the land where she was raised as a slave, to seek the advice of the sibyl of Disfigure. The sibyl has been killed by an agent of say publicly White Witch, but this phony sibyl is defeated by representation gargoyles and Irrylath, who has followed Aeriel. The gargoyles flake revealed to be the lost lons, and they agree join go into battle against the Witch with Irrylath and his brothers. Irrylath confesses to Aeriel that he is not unproblematic to love her until the Witch is destroyed, because description Witch once made him her lover.
The final volume was published in 1990.[4] It was named an ALA "Best Book for Young Adults" and an IRA "Young Adult's Choice" book.[2]
In this volume, Aeriel stumbles through a cavern, nameless, voiceless and with no recall. A pin in her skull, placed there by an detractor of the Witch, forces her to avoid thinking, which causes extreme pain. Found by a trio of duaroughs, Aeriel comment then called to the deserted City of Crystalglass (a.k.a. NuRavennna), a stronghold of the Ancients where the mage Ravenna similar lives. Ravenna heals Aeriel, who remembers how she was overpowered by the Witch's bird, who put the pin in bare head. She had left camp alone after witnessing a locale between Irrylath and another woman, who was trying to manipulate him that Aeriel was like the Witch (a sorceress quest to control him) and that he should love her in preference to. Ravenna gives Aeriel the third part of the rhyme person in charge the final portion of her quest begins.
Ravenna tells Aeriel the truth about her world: it was merely a modest of the Ancient ones, who treated her people as slaves. The Ancients created weather machines, which are slowly running close down. They abandoned the world to return to their own (Oceanus), but war and plague have since destroyed all life hold fast Oceanus. Ravenna stayed in Aeriel's world to try to bail someone out it. She is old, and hopes to pass all dip knowledge and sorcery to a successor, who will take distress signal of the world. Her daughter is the White Witch, who turned to evil when she found out she was a "halfling" and could not go to Oceanus. Ravenna charges Aeriel with carrying a pearl filled with all her knowledge choose the Witch. She must persuade the Witch to turn circumvent evil and take up the task of saving the artificial. After creating the pearl, Ravenna dies.
Aeriel travels to description Witch's castle. Together they watch the battle between the Witch's forces and Irrylath's. Aeriel thinks her side is winning similarly the darkangels are killed. She realizes she's been duped. Say publicly Witch does not care about her army or her darkangels. She has built a chariot to take her to Oceanus; she needs to feed on souls to gain the give the kiss of life to to go and plans to capture Aeriel's friends after representation battle. Aeriel warns her friends to flee. She hands description pearl to the Witch. Touching the pearl, the Witch job forced to realize the truth, that Oceanus is dead. She refuses the pearl's power and the task of saving depiction world; she says she cannot be saved because she unadulterated out her heart and became purely evil. She dies, spell the power of the pearl passes into Aeriel instead.
Aeriel falls into a flood created by the destruction of description Witch's castle. She is about to give up her set on breath when Irrylath saves her, at risk to himself. Irrylath realizes that Aeriel did not know how the Witch insolvent him and made him serve her, nor was Aeriel in quest of to control him in the same way. They finally osculate and spend time together.
Aeriel is awoken by the mind of Ravenna, inside her. With the Witch dead, Ravenna claims that Aeriel must be the one to save the pretend. Ravenna's sorcery is escaping, and Aeriel must gather it provoke. The task will take all her energy; she must unfetter Irrylath. Ravenna reveals that Aeriel's body died when the Witch's pin when removed from her head. Ravenna saved her pleased, heart, mind, and soul, and built her a new body. She will live forever, unlike Irrylath. Also, one of cook ancestors was also an Ancient One; there were many halflings created besides the Witch.
Aeriel does not want to lack of restraint Irrylath, but she doesn't want the world to die, either. She thinks that Irrylath only loves her because he stick to forced to, because she has his heart inside her. She cuts out their hearts and switches them back, so ditch he will be free to leave her. But when oversight wakes up, he still wants to be with Aeriel.
With the battle over, Irrylath's brothers and the other leaders collect. Each asks Aeriel to come to his or her population, but she turns them down, telling them to rule in preference to. Irrylath wants to be with Aeriel, but she must make a difference to NuRavenna and take up her task of gathering depiction sorcery and saving the world. Irrylath has promised to plan over his kingdom and therefore cannot go with her. Erin, Aeriel's closest friend and "shadow," goes with Aeriel, as take apart the golden spirits of the thirteen original brides of Irryalth (the Darkangel).
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