DragonKeeper Chronicles

## Genre Information

Children's Fantasy
Fantasy

Mythical Creatures and Races
Dragons

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## About the Series

* **Genres:** Children's Fantasy, Mythical Creatures, Fantasy Adventure Series
* **Theme:**
* **Narrative style**:

## Series Description

The Dragonkeeper Chronicles are a five-book inspirational fantasy series by American author Donita K. Paul, following the adventures of a young former slave girl named Kale, and in the later books, a knight-in-training called Bardon.

These books are religiously inspired, but the religion is not one that is actually practice on Earth. it is a Fantasy one with lots of Paladins and Good vs Evil. Probably anyone can relate to the inspiration within the stories regardless of what your beliefs are.

## Books in order

1. DragonSpell (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 1) (2004)
2. DragonQuest (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 2) (2005)
3. DragonKnight (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 3) (2006)
4. DragonFire (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 4) (2007)
5. DragonLight (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 5) (2008)

## World Building

### Fantasy Elements

This world consists of 7 higher races and 7 lower races

#### Seven High Races

The seven high races are the seven races created by Wulder.

O'rant
The race that best represents humans. They have rounded ears and are generally five to six feet tall.
Doneel
Doneels are furry people with bulging eyes, thin black lips, and shaggy fur. They have ears that twitch, and the position of their ears often indicate their mood.
Tumanhofer
Shorter, more rotund race. They have an interest in "digging" through different things for knowledge, such as books or agriculture. They have quite complex gates used in their towns.
Emerlindian
Tall and skinny, or short and skinny. They have pointed ears and darken as they grow in wisdom.
Urohm
Well proportioned, but they are giants. Were once normal-sized, but Wulder blessed them to enable them to defeat an enemy.
Kimen
Small, fragile people, about two feet tall. They wear light and can either run fast or fly; no one's quite sure which. They are somewhat like fairies, but with deeper spiritual meaning.
Marione
This race is known for its overall ability to fight. Most are shorter but more muscular. Kale was raised in a village of Mariones.
#### Seven Low Races

The Pretender copied the seven races of Wulder, in an attempt to have races of his own. But he failed, and seven races, intelligent and unintelligent, was the result.

Bisonbecks
Bisonbecks are the most intelligent of the seven low races brought forth from Pretender's evil mind. They are described as beings with rock-hard muscles and thick skin like a crocodile melon. Known for their strength and endurance, the bisonbecks added an unholy rage into battle with their formidable ability to wipe out anyone who opposed them.
Blimmets
Blimmets are Pretender's failed attempt to create a race like the Doneels. Blimmets are weasel-like creatures with luxurious, dark fur and razor-sharp teeth. Blimmets burrow rapidly through the earth. Sometimes their movement can be seen from above as the ground bulges and sinks in a line above their tunnel. After they have eaten, they sleep for months, then wake up ravenous. They swarm out of the ground for periodic feeding frenzies.
Grawligs
They are described as beings with hairy legs, fat lips, yellowed teeth, grossly flappy noses, and tiny eyes, solid black. In stories, it is said that they eat anything that they catch, clumsy with their fingers, dumb and vicious.
Quiss
These creatures have an enormous appetite. Every three years the Quiss develop the capacity to breathe air for six weeks and forage along the sea coast, creating havoc. Their poison released from barbed tentacles dissolves flesh.
Ropma :These half-men, half animals are useful in herding and caring for beasts. While not very intelligent, they are generally benign. Common names among Ropma include Dirt, Bug, Leaf, and Rock.
Schoergs
They are much like Grawligs except they are shorter and less playful than a Grawlig is.
Mordakleeps
They are shadowy creatures with small red eyes, wide mouths, and green tonges. They are known as the embodiment of nothing as when a being is held within them, there is nothing there. A mind will writhe and eventually shut down against the pain of loneliness and isolation. If you can cut off their tails, they will become a puddle of smelly sludge.
### World

There is a constant struggle with Good vs Evil and with the Bad guys that have rejected Wulder's teachings. And with lots of Dragons.

### Protagonist

Kale Allerion
Kale was born in the Marione town of River Away. Both of her parents were assigned missions by Paladin when she was just a child, leaving her in the care of Mistress Meiger. During her childhood, Kale was raised as a slave girl, until, when she was fourteen years old, she found and quickened a dragon's egg. While on her quest she discovers that she is also a Mindspeaker.
Kale is a Dragon Keeper, a person who is gifted in raising dragons and finding and hatching dragon eggs. As a DragonKeeper her natural gift of finding dragon eggs is multiplied, which defines the difference between her and others with her gift.
Bardon
He was left at the Hall by his father, Sir Joffa when he was six years old and lived there for twelve years with five other roommates. When he was eighteen, he was sent on a quest with Kale, the late Wizard Fenworth, Dar, and Librettowit, instead of becoming a knight, to learn to become more flexible. Bardon is half O'rant and half Emerlindian.