Temeraire/1808

* Pen Y Fan
* Map

### 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*

## 1808

from *Victory of Eagles*

Among the backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of England and his defeat, Temeraire comes to realize the terrible price their treason has had on Laurence.

### Pen y Fan Breeding Grounds

Temeraire is confined at Pen y Fan breeding grounds in Wales, and Laurence is confined in the Brigg aboard one of the ships in the Channel.
Temeraire settles in at Pen y Fan breeding grounds, not exactly happily but he knows that his good behavior is the main reason that Laurence hasn’t been hung, so it is more resign acceptance.
He gets to know a few of the other Dragons, but he doesn’t socialize too much initially. He claims and fixes up one of the caves to make himself a bit more comfortable and the lesser dragons that visit with him consider it very nice.
After a long spell of rain, Requiescat decides to claim Temeraire’s cave for himself, since his cave leaks rain in. Temeraire is very put out of that and refuses to agree to the exchange, which results in the Dragon Council being called.
With Perscitia advice, Temeraire plays politics with the older heavy weight Dragons to get them on his side about being bullied to give up his cave. He discovers that some of the small Winchesters don’t stay at the breeding grounds but often fly away and go to the coverts to get the news. Since there are always so many of the small courier dragons around, no one really ever notices that there is an extra one. Temeraire makes the acquaintance of one of them, Moncey and ask him for news on Laurence and the War.

#### Dragon Council

During the Dragon Council, the heavy weight dragons ask Temeraire to show off his abilities so they can decide which is the stronger, Requiescat or him, for whichever one is the stronger they would have precedence and their choice of caves. Just as Temeraire is ready to show them the Divine Wind aimed at a granite mountain, Moncey arrives with news that Laurence is dead, that the ship he was held on went down at sea with all hands lost. The Divine Wind that Temeraire unleased was full of his anguish and he destroyed the granite mountain.

### Invasion

Temeraire is confined at Pen Y Fan breeding grounds in Wales, and Laurence is confined in the Brigg aboard one of the ships in the Channel.

With Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire takes command of the dragons at the breeding grounds and rallies them to fight against Napoleon and to demand their rights as sentient beings.  By the time Laurence is sent to Pen Y Fan to retrieve Temeraire so they can fight with the covert, Temeraire and everyone; dragon and human are gone.

### Militia

Temeraire takes charge of his 60-dragon strong militia and head off to find the enemy.

One of their first skirmishes is to take out a French camp were they are very successful. They secure the camp and supplies as well as a cannon that they have to work out how to use, but realize that they are going to need humans too. They recruit one the local human militia groups to work with them.

Laurence and a courier eventually catch up with them, the military leaders are so impressed with the "local militia commander" that they offer him a commission as a colonel, which Temeraire accepts.

Temeraire eventually negotiates pay and recognition for all dragons, not just his group which starts many of them thinking.

### Retreat

While retreating to Scotland, their group stop overnight for a rest and food at Laurence's family estate in Nottinghamshire where Temeraire is reunited with Gong Su.

#### Edinburgh covert

As Temeraire begins to realize that their betrayal and conviction of treason is costing Laurence a lot more then it costs Temeraire and that everything will never go back to the way they had been before the delivered the plague cure to Napoleon, jhe discovers more disagreeable news.

Captain Fenter's Neck chain with an emerald sparked a conversation between Temeraire and Emily Roland, where Temeraire learns about the lawsuite from the slavers after Laurence's conviction. Since he was imprisoned he could not fight the lawsuit and lost all of his money. This news weights heavily on Temeraire's conscience for the rest of the series.

### Exiled

After the great victory against Napoleon instead of execution, Laurence is exiled to New South Wales and the British government is more then happy to see their only Celestial dragon go far, far away too. After the devastation that Lien caused on their ships with her Divine Wind everyone is leery of the devastation that Celestial dragons can cause.