Dragon Jousters series

## Genre Information

Historical Fantasy
Alt. History

Mythological Creatures
Dragons

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## About the Series

* **Genres:** Historical Fantasy, Alt. History, Dragons
* **Theme:** *dynamic fusion of the cultures of ancient Egypt and legendary Atlantis* but with Dragons.
* **Narrative style:**

## Series Description

Vetch was an Altan serf working the land which had once been his family's farm. Young and slight, Vetch would have died of overwork, exposure, and starvation if not for the anger which was his only real sustenance--anger that he had lost his home and family in a war of conquest waged by the dragon-riding Jousters of Tia. Tia had usurped nearly half of Alta's lands and enslaved or killed many of Vetch's countrymen. Sometimes it seemed that his entire cruel fate revolved around dragons and the Jousters who rode them.

He was rescued from his cruel master by a Dragon rider and taken to become his dragon-boy, the boy that takes care of his dragon, Kashet, above everything else. During his time caring for Kashet he discovered the secret of having the Dragon be willing to act as a partner as opposed to all of the other Dragons that have to be drugged so they can be controlled by their riders.

He secretly raises his own Dragon and then escapes to take the secret back to his homeland of Alta, in the hopes that they can over throw the Tian's only to discover that his homeland is now in the hands of powerful and corrupt Magi.

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1. Joust (Dragon Jousters Book 1) (2003)
2. Alta (Dragon Jousters Book 2) (2004)
3. Sanctuary (Dragon Jousters Book 3) (2005)
4. Aerie (Dragon Jousters Book 4) (2006)

## World Building

### Setting

A pseudo fusion of Ancient Egypt and Atlantis legends with the two warring countries, Alta and Tia, representing upper and lower Egypt.

### Protagonist

Vetch/Kiron
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## Brief Book Descriptions

Joust (Dragon Jousters Book 1) (2003)
Vetch was an Altan serf working the land which had once been his family's farm. Young and slight, Vetch would have died of overwork, exposure, and starvation if not for the anger which was his only real sustenance--anger that he had lost his home and family in a war of conquest waged by the dragon-riding Jousters of Tia. Tia had usurped nearly halt of Alta's lands and enslaved or killed many of Vetch's countrymen. Sometimes it seemed that his entire cruel fate revolved around dragons and the Jousters who rode them.
But his fate changed forever the day he first saw a dragon.
Alta (Dragon Jousters Book 2) (2004)
Vetch had done the unimaginable. He had secretly raised his own baby dragon, a crimson female he named Avatre, and when she first took flight he had been on her back. Although Avatre was new to flight, with the help of his trainer and friend, the dragon Jouster Ari, he had managed to evade pursuit, escaping from the compound that housed the dragon-riding troops of Tia, his homeland's enemies. Aided by the nomadic tribes of the desert, Vetch and Avatre had crossed the vast sands heading north toward the lands still held by Alta.
It was Vetch's plan to convey to his half-conquered homeland the secret which he hoped would be the key to Alta's liberation: how to tame dragons. If he imparted this secret to the Altan rulers, would it not give them the edge they needed to throw off their conquerors despite their lesser numbers? And it seemed that his good luck was holding when, after saving a young priestess of noble blood from the dangers of the Great Mother River, he was given entree into the dragon Jouster compound of Alta City.
Sanctuary (Dragon Jousters Book 3) (2005)
Kiron had achieved more than he had ever dreamed possible. On the back of his dragon, Avatre, he had crossed the vast desert and reached Alta, the kingdom of his birth. Once there, he had been accepted into the Jousters compound and had shared his most valuable secret: how to raise and tame dragons.
But there was also a dark side to Kiron's life. For he had come to learn that a powerful and unethical magical order, the Magi, were controlling Alta by systematically draining the other, gentler, magical orders of their powers--thus strengthening themselves. But that was only part of the evil picture. For Kiron soon realized that the Magi were plotting to take over and rule Alta. They had built a terrible weapon, the Eye of Light, which could kill from afar and would support their reign with terror.
Aerie (Dragon Jousters Book 4) (2006)
In the fourth and final novel of Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters series, Kiron, the man who had once been a dragon-boy called Vetch, has united the dragon riders and managed to rid their world of both war and magical domination. But are the evil Magi really gone for good? As Kiron tries to build a new civilization at the site of an abandoned cliff dweller's city, called Aerie, conflicts arise, and he soon realizes there is a vast conspiracy at work, which includes individuals who have infiltrated every walk of life-even his own family. Once the heads of the Magi, these conspirators are determined to regain their sinister control.