num_pages: 246
description: Robin McKinley's mesmerizing history of Damar is the stuff that legends are made of. The Hero and the Crown is a dazzling "prequel" to The Blue Sword.Aerin is the only child of the king of Damar, and should be his rightful heir. But she is also the daughter of a witchwoman of the North, who died when she was born, and the Damarians cannot trust her.But Aerin's destiny is greater than her father's people know, for it leads her to battle with Maur, the Black Dragon, and into the wilder Damarian Hills, where she meets the wizard Luthe. It is he who at last tells her the truth about her mother, and he also gives over to her hand the Blue Sword, Gonturan. But such gifts as these bear a great price, a price Aerin only begins to realize when she faces the evil mage, Agsded, who has seized the Hero's Crown, greatest treasure and secret strength of Damar.
language: English
title: The Hero and the Crown
titlecomplete: The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #1)
characters: Aerin
genres: Adventure, Fantasy, High Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Dragons
ratings_count: 52670
series: Damar
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Greenwillow Books