Halfblood Chronicles

3 primary works

The Elvenbane

by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey

Published 1 November 1991

ELVENBANE: THE PROPHECY IS ABOUT TO BE FULFILLED

There will come a child. One born of human mother but fathered by the demons, possessed of magic more powerful than the elven lords! The child shall be hunted before its birth, yet shall escape the hunt and will rise up against the masters and cast them into the lowest hell...

The world is run by the elvenlords. Powerful, proud and secure in their dominion they keep legions of human slaves for work and take their pleasure in elven or human concubines. The breeding of halfbreeds is strictly forbidden. Then Serina Daeth - the favoured human concubine of elven overlord Dryan - finds herself pregnant.

Forced to flee into the desert, Serina dreams - as she dies - of a midwife delivering her baby, Shana; the midwife is in fact the shapechanging dragon-shaman Alara.

But Shana is no ordinary child: raised by the dragons, she is destined to become the Elvenbane.

Elvenblood

by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey

Published 1 June 1995

Elvenblood... To spill it was to invite terrible vengeance, as Shana, also known as the Elvenbane, had already discovered. She had been born into a world with one simple law - obey the elven lords, or be destroyed. Those elvenborn who had the strongest magic and pure elvenblood ruled all others: humans, halfbloods, and even elves of weaker magic, mere slaves who lived or died at the whim and fancy of their masters. Now change is in the wind, and what began with Shana's struggle has spread to become a rebellion of all the oppressed across the land.... If they could rise as one, the elven lords would be far outnumbered. But even so, none who would fight the lords are able to withstand their might. Their common cause must find in the elven masters some weakness, an Achilles' heel in the armor of their magical supremacy.

Elvenborn

by Andre Norton

Published 19 October 2003