Elvenborn
core novel 2002 The Halfblood Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (8,420 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| Page count | 471 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312864569 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Closing the Halfblood Chronicles trilogy, Elvenborn shifts its focus to a war-torn version of the elf-ruled world where the conflict begun in earlier books has intensified. Its central figure is Kyrtian, an elvenlord who breaks from his peers' customs by treating the humans under him as servants rather than slaves, a stance that sets him apart within elven society. Rising through the ranks to become a military commander, Kyrtian sets out on a quest to locate the Great Portal, the very gateway through which the elves first entered this world generations earlier, hoping that its secrets can explain both his own father's unexplained disappearance and the deeper origins of elvenkind itself. His search unfolds against a backdrop of open civil war, as younger lords across elven society rebel against their fathers' rule.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Halfblood Chronicles
- Series: The Halfblood Chronicles core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mercedes Lackey
- Author: Andre Norton
Notes
- Publication month disputed: official site gives Aug 2002; Kirkus and archive.org catalog data give Oct 2002. Year is solid; month unresolved.
- From the series record (The Halfblood Chronicles): Closed trilogy: Andre Norton died in 2005 and Lackey never continued it solo. A fourth title, 'Elvenbred', is mentioned uncited on one Wikipedia bibliography page as 'planned but never published', single-sourced, not independently corroborated, not registered.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Halfblood Chronicles: position 3 of 3: previous Elvenblood (1995)
Sources
- https://www.mercedeslackey.com
- Kirkus Reviews
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Halfblood_Chronicles
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