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The Elvenbane

core novel 1991 The Halfblood Chronicles

Record

First published1991
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating3.97 (15,198 ratings, collected 2026-09-13)
Page count566
First-edition ISBN9780312851064
Internal chronology1

Synopsis

Opening the Halfblood Chronicles, The Elvenbane is set in a world elves entered through a portal from their own realm of Evelon and where they now rule over enslaved humans. An old prophecy holds that a halfblood, born of both elf and human, will one day spark a revolution against elven rule. When the pregnant human concubine Serina Daeth flees her elven-lord master into the desert, she dies giving birth, and her daughter Shana is found and raised not by elves or humans but by a dragon shaman named Alamarana, growing up outside either society's control. As Shana comes of age and eventually encounters secret communities of human wizards hiding their power from the elves, her presence begins to expose their existence, setting in motion the tensions between wizards and elven lords that the prophecy foretold.

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Notes

  • 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 1 of 3: next Elvenblood (1995)

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