Temeraire/1807

* Africa
* Capetown

### Appearance

glossy black hide with opalescent blue and pale grey markings on the edges of his wings

## Military

### Status

* Alive
* Exiled from Britain
* Active

## Book Appearances

### Books

* *His Majesty's Dragon*
* *Throne of Jade*
* *Black Powder War*
* *Empire of Ivory*
* *Victory of Eagles*
* *Tongues of Serpents*
* *Crucible of Gold*
* *Blood of Tyrants*
* *League of Dragons*

### Dragon Plague

*December 18, 1806*

Temeraire, Laurence and the 20 feral dragons arrive back at Scotland along with nearly a thousand Prussian soldiers and their commander that they rescued before the French overran their position.

Laurence and the Dragons are ordered to London, where Laurence and Temeraire learn about the Dragon Plague; that all of the British Dragons are out of commission and that several of the Dragons have already died. They are sent to Dover to be the only force available to guard the Channel.

Keynes stays in Scotland to help with the Plague, Dorset is assigned as Temeraire's surgeon, much to Temeraire's dismay for loosing Keynes.

Laurence is sent back to London on a mission to raise funds to improve the care of the Dragons, but he has no luck with the Admiralty.  While in London, Lord Allendale brings Mr. Wilberforce a well-known and passionate abolitionist to meet Laurence and Temeraire by default.  Temeraire joins their conversation and Wilberforce comes up with a plan to combine their two missions, to outlaw slavery and improve the conditions of the Dragons, by holding a subscription-party. The focus would be to meet Captain Laurence, the adopted son of the Emperor of China but in reality Temeraire ended up being the center of attention. At the party Temeraire discusses advance mathematics and conversed in both Chinese and French as well as used his sand-table to write upon.  His vast intelligence and civilized manners helped to open a few eyes of important people, including Lord Admiral Nelson where he and Temeraire held an in depth conversation about the "Battle of the Nile".

After the party they returned to their patrol of the channel.

On a visit to fly over where his friends were quarantined, Temeraire intercepted one of the Plein-Vite French Dragons, Sauvignon hovering over where the sick dragons are. Temeraire chassed after her and brought them down in the Sand pits, where the Long-Wings are quarantined.

Landing at the Sand pits, exposes both Sauvignon and Temeraire to the plague.  When the French dragon comes down with it, but Temeraire doesn’t seem to, Dr. Keynes returns to examine Temeraire and finally decides that Temeraire already had the plague and something about their earlier stop over in Africa cured him so is now immune to catching it again.  A trip back to Africa for Lily’s entire wing is arranged.

### Voyage to Africa

Once again, they are assigned to the HMS Allegiance with Tom Riley it’s captain.  But the entire wing of dragons is sent with Temaraire as they were very hard hit. Maximus not thought to live much longer and Lily in nearly in as bad of condition.   The two middle-weights were a little better and the two light-weights in the best condition.

To help relieve the boredom of the sick dragons, Temeraire prevailed upon Laurence to read to them all. At first he was esitant about reading the advance Mathematics and Science that Temeraire adored because he thought that Temeraire was unique in his ability to grasp it, but after reading everything else he finally gave in and was reading a treatise on geometry when the other Dragons joined
in on the discussion.

### Capetown

Temerairee and part of his crew arrived ahead of the ship in the hopes of getting a fast start on finding the cure, but it eluded them. With effort and a lot of help from Temerairee the sick dragons were brought ashore and stationed on the parade grounds near the beach.

After much experimenting, two of the group of children finally brought in a couple of the smelly fungus that Temeraire had eaten on his last trip.  Maximus was given a dose as soon as it was prepared but didn’t show an immediate improvement.  But after several more dosages he slowly started to become well.

### Tswana Kingdom

After searching and only finding a small amount of the mushrooms, they decide that they needed to go further inland.  Soon after their party set off, they discovered a cave of the mushrooms growing and set about in a frantic rush filling up everything they could with them, then sent the Dragons back with the fungus and to get more containers.

When the Dragons return to the cave they discover all of their captains and crews are missing and disobeying orders, Temeraire, Lily and Dulcia set out to find them.

Temeraire is captured by the Tswana so the rescue is left up to Lily and Dulcia in which they succeed.

Once they are all back in Brittan, the aviators learn that the plague infected French courier dragon was released to escape back home, where her captain had already been sent, this sickened many of the aviators.

When Temeraire learns that the plague was purposely released to the continent he suggests to Laurence that they should take some of the cure to France.  Napoleon and Lein try to seduce Laurence and Temeraire into betraying Britain with further information and offer rich rewards, but Laurence holds fast and insists on being returned.

## References

1. ↑ Novik, Naomi. Empire of Ivory: A Novel of Temeraire . Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Novik, Naomi. Empire of Ivory: A Novel of Temeraire . Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Novik, Naomi. Empire of Ivory: A Novel of Temeraire . Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.