Tenebrak : The Founding
United States of America (USA)
:
Anna Jacobs
,
2010
6902328
2010
single work
novel
fantasy
'Violence has shattered the peaceful world, and bands of raiders are looting and killing. Karialla's settlement is destroyed while she's away and she loses husband, home and friends.
'She returns to Tenebrak, helped on her way by the strange creatures called deleff. She's planning to undertake further training as a healer of the First Cadre, but finds the Healers' Courts destroyed. The town's Elders give her a huge empty house and she sets up as a healer. But she keeps seeing an image of a huge building on the ridge overlooking the town.
'Other people with the necessary gifts to help Karialla struggle back to Tenebrak after facing great adversity and go to live with her.
'Some people don't want a return of peace, however, and the whole town is threatened by a new band of raiders. Will they succeed or will Karialla and her friends help return peace to this troubled land?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Quest
Chippendale
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
1993
Z512207
1993
single work
novel
fantasy
'At fourteen, Katia is chosen to serve at the Sisterhood's temple in Tenebrak. But violent Discord engulfs the planet threatening the 20,000-year-old Sisterhood's existence. In a satellite far above Tenebrak, Davred, brilliant xeno-anthropologist, studies the Sisterhood, and risks everything by deciding to help them. But neither Davred nor the Sisters know all the secrets of this mysterious planet.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Lands of Nowhere
Sydney
:
Pan
,
1995
Z246277
1995
single work
novel
fantasy
'Lands of Nowhere continues the story of Herra and her group of Kindred, who have fled from the city of Tenebrak and are trying to find sanctuary in the Lands of Nowhere. They are being hounded by Those of the Serpent, whose incense-choked shrines are filled with pain and suffering in the worship of their dread god. The evil cult has spread rapidly throughout the Twelve Claims, and has even affected Robler, the increasingly unbalanced Exec in charge of the Confederation satellite that circles above them. The Lands of Nowhere are the legendary lands of the deleff, told of only in children's tales, for no humans have ever been known to visit them. The mysterious deleff have already saved the Kindred twice, but are they really allies in the Kindred's Quest against Discord? And why are the deleff so reluctant to let them leave the closed community of Dsheresh Vale? As the Kindred encounter new threats to their Quest, meet new allies and develop new Gifts - the planet Sunrise reveals itself as more baffling than ever ...'. Source: author's website (http://www.annajacobs.com/shannahjay.asp).
Shadow of the Serpent
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
1995
Z198535
1995
single work
novel
fantasy
'Shadow of the Serpent starts as the members of the Kindred have just passed through one of the deleff's strange portals and suddenly find themselves scattered across the Twelve Claims. They have been sent to seed the land with rebellion, to start a blaze of defiance that will one day consume the evil of the Serpent. Each small group of characters faces grave danger, especially the dark threat of being dicovered and killed by Those of the Serpent. As they journey towards their rendezvous, they meet up with some unexpected allies and overcome great difficulties. Will their Quest against the Discord which has swept their planet be successful? As the depraved evil of the Serpent threatens to engulf the whole world, only the Kindred are left to save their people ...'. Source: author's website ( http://www.annajacobs.com/shannahjay.asp). Sighted 15/2/11.
The Price of Wisdom
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
1996
Z192073
1996
single work
novel
fantasy
'The final volume in The Chronicles of Tenebrak. Across the length and breadth of the Twelve Claims, the armies of the Serpent are massing. Discord is everywhere - even on the satellite circling above the planet Sunrise - and the Serpent's cult of evil and suffering is threatens to spread throughout the Confederation itself. In the woodland fastness of the high Alder the Kindred prepare to make their stand. Only Herra's wisdom can defeat the Serpent. But can the Kindred afford the bitter cost?' Source: bookseller's website.
