Temeraire

* Overview
* Crew
* 1805
* 1806
* 1806 cont.
* 1807
* 1808
* 1809
* 1810-1811
* 1811-1812
* 1813

* First Flight
* Shelter
* Necklace

### 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*

## Biography

Temeraire, a Celestial dragon known as Lung Tien Xiang in China, is one of the main characters of *Temeraire (series)*. He was originally meant to be Napoleon Bonaparte's dragon, but the ship that brought him out of China, the *Amitie*, ran into a string of bad luck. Subsequently, the *HMS Reliant*, captained by William Laurence at the time, captured the *Amitie* three weeks from Madeira with a full wind.

Temeraire's egg was from Lung Tien Qian and the Imperial Lung Qin Gao and was the older twin of Lung Tien Chuan. The dragon hatched from an egg delivered by Qian was destined to be the companion of the Crown Prince of China, so when twin eggs were delivered it became awkward because only an Emperor and his heir can be a Celestial Dragon's companion.

The Chinese sent the 2nd egg as a gift to an Emperor on the other side of the world from them, to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte as a way to prevent the dragon being used to contend the Chinese throne. Qian, believing that the egg that had to cross the world would need good fortune, decided to send the older (Xiang's) lying to everyone by telling that it was the other egg (Chuan's) the one she had delivered first.

His egg "shown with the full luster of marble". When hatched

## Books Temeraire Reads

* A book on mineralogy, which speaks about gemstones and their mining (Book 1, Chapter 3).
* The Naval Trident by Duncan (Book 1 Chapter 4) - Possibly *The British Trident, or, Register of Naval Actions* by Archibald Duncan, first published in 1804?
* An English translation of the *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*i> by Isaac Newton, 1687. The translation may have been the one done by Andrew Motte in 1729. Laurence was prepared to bring his Latin up to snuff to read the book to **Temeraire** in the original, but he was probably just as happy to find a translation. This becomes Temeraire's favourite book, almost sort of a bedtime story for him.
* A book by (Pierre-Simon) Laplace, possibly one of the first four volumes of the *Mécanique céleste*> published 1799-1805. Laurence finds this book to be somewhat heavy going.
* A book of Oriental tales about dragons, translated and annotated by Sir Edward Howe.
* A book by Gibbon, the second volume (Book 2 Chapter 3) - Probably *The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*, Edward Gibbon's best known work. It was published in six volumes 1776-1789.
* A French translation of the Arabian Nights (Book 2 Chapter 10) - Possibly the translation by Antoine Galland published in 1704, which was the first European version of the tales. Temeraire's reference to Ali Baba's cave (in a discussion of Requiescat's attempt to take over Temeraire's own cave) comes from the Arabian Nights.
* Classical Chinese works, including the *Analects* of Confucius, which Temeraire refers to in a discussion with Majestatis.
* *Die Leiden des jungen Werther* (Book 3 Chapter 11) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774 and published in a revised edition in 1787.
* Possibly *On the Predestination of the Saints (De praedestinatione sanctorum)* by St. Augustine of Hippo - Temeraire refers to Augustine's explanation of predestination in his brief discussion with Rev. Daniel Salcombe.

## Family Tree

**Note:** The information in this family tree is taken mostly from *Golden Age and Other Stories:Succession* by Naomi Novik and some from *Throne of Jade*.

## References

1. ↑ Novik, Naomi. Empire of Ivory: A Novel of Temeraire . Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑  His Majesty's Dragon, page 10
3. ↑ Novik, Naomi. His Majesty's Dragon: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 17). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

### Officers

* Captain: William Laurence
* John Granby✤BPW First-Lieutenant
	+ BPW: Becomes Captain to Iskierka
* Evans✤ToJ - Second-Lieutenant
	+ ToJ: Lt. Evans badly injured during the French attack and sent back to England.
* Johns **†**HMS - Lieutenant in charge of the Topmen
	+ Dies during the Battle of Dover
* Henry Ferris✤HMS,ToJ,BPW - Third-Lieutenant
	+ HMS: In charge of Topmen after Johns is killed
	+ TOJ: Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant when Evans returns to England
	+ BPW: promoted to 1st Lieutenant when Granby harnesses Iskierka
* Riggs – Lieutenant in charge of the Riflemen
* Balesworth✤TOJ**†**BPW
	+ ToJ: promoted to Lieutenant when Evans is sent back to England
	+ BPW: Dies in the Avalanche with a broken neck
* Collins - Midwingman
* Donnell
* Mwm. Dunne - Midwingman
* Donnell - Midwingman
* Portis - Mwm. Topman, loaned out to Maximus's crew for a short time, returned before the trip to China
* Macdonaugh**†**BPW - Mwm. Topman, loaned out to Maximus's crew for a short time, returned before the trip to China
	+ BPW: Dies when attacked at the Oasis in the Taklamakan Desert
* Hackley - Midwingman

### Crew

* Digby✤BPW**†**BPW - Ensign
	+ BPW: Promoted to Midwingman
	+ BPW: Killed during the Escape from Istanbul
* Allen - Ens.
* Harley - Ens.
* Salyer - Ens.
* Turner - Ens. Signals
* Ezekiah Martin
* Dilly Challoner **†**HMS
* Wright
* Croyn**†**ToJ - Topmen
	+ ToJ: Unnamed Dover Channel engagement, ch. 2
* Donnell**†**ToJ - Rifleman
	+ ToJ: Dies during the Valérie Engagement
* Therrows
* Miggsy**†**ToJ - Belman
	+ ToJ: Dies during the Valérie Engagement

#### Runners

* Andrew Morgan**†**ToJ - Cadet
	+ Dies during the Valérie Engagement
* Peter Dyer - Cadet
* Emily Roland - Cadet

#### Harness Men

* Willoughby**†**ToJ
	+ ToJ: Dies during the attack in Peking
* Porter
* Winston
* ?
* ?
* 4 unnamed**†**ToJ
	+ ToJ: Dies during the Valérie Engagement

### Ground Crew

* Keynes - Dragon Senior Surgeon
* Hollin – Head✤HMS – Becomes Captain to Elsie a Winchester, courier dragon
* Fellowes - Harness Master - Becomes Head of the ground crew
* Pratt – armorer
* Bell – leatherworker
* Blythe - armorer's mate
* Calloway - Gunner

### Unofficial Crew Members

* Gong Su✤BPW - BPW: Joins the crew as Temeraire's cook

## References/Footnotes

**†** denotes Killed in Action

✤ denotes a status change

## Temeraire

* Choosing
* Greetings
* Training

### 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*

### Hatching

The French ship *Amitie* is transporting the Dragon egg as a gift to the French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte.  After months of ill luck, *Amitie* is intercepted by the *HMS Reliant,* then under the command of Captain William Laurence, who takes the egg as a prize of war.

Realizing that the egg is close to hatching, Laurence has all the officers draw straws to see who would have the duty of harnessing it, a choice that fell to Midshipman Jonathan Carver.

When Temeraire hatch's; he ignores Carver, instead inspecting the ship and finally settling on Laurence as his companion. Temeraire spends his next few weeks aboard the Reliant eating, sleeping and growing. During his second week aboard the ship, the Reliant is struck by a viscous storm while Temeraire and Laurence are out on their first flight. Gordon, one of the ship's hands who has helped fish meals for Temeraire, is thrown overboard, though they are able to rescue him. From then on Temeraire spends every day of the remaining voyage flying and catching his own meals.

The Reliant eventually comes into port at Funchal, the capital of Madeira. Being forced to remain on the island until they receive formal orders from the Aerial Corps. Laurence and Temeraire explore much of the island, eventually making the acquaintance of Sir Edward Howe, a dragon expert, who incorrectly identifies Temeraire as an Imperial. Shortly after this, Temeraire, for the first time, meets another dragon: Volatilus and his captain: Langford James. Less than a day later, Captain Portland, his dragon Laetificat and Lieutenant Dayes arrive in Madeira, intending to supplant Laurence with Dayes, a plan that doesn't go over well with Temeraire, who insists on keeping Laurence. Captain Portland then leads them to a Dragon Transport that will take them to Aerial Command, where they are ordered by Admiral Powys to proceed to Loch Laggan for their formal training. Laurence and Temeraire stop at Nottinghamshire while en route, where Temeraire makes the acquaintance of Laurence's mother: Lady Allendale.

### Loch Laggan covert

Temeraire and Laurence proceed to Loch Laggan, where they meet their training instructor the dragon Celeritas. Celeritas begins their training with formation flying, learning aerial maneuvers and signals and acquainting Temeraire with a crew. During the first few weeks at Loch Laggan, Temeraire prove himself different from the other dragons through his love of reading, swimming and having his harness off whenever possible. He also meets Lily, a Longwing, and Maximus, a Regal Copper, who become his formation partners and close friends. He and Laurence also meet Levitas, a small and poorly neglected courier dragon.

Temeraire and Maximus, are sent off to support a Parnassian dragon, Victoriatus, who is injured in a battle near Aberdeen. Temeraire arrives before Maximus because of his greater speed and just in time to relieve the two smaller dragons that are attempting to carry Victoriatus to the covert medical center. Before Maximus arrives, Temeriare is gravely injured by Victoriatus claws which also damaged his harness. With the harness damaged, his crew is in danger of falling including Laurence.  Temeraire is ready to drop Victoriatus and his crew to catch Laurence, but Granby comes to Laurence’s rescue which becomes the turning point in their relationship.

Temeraire is assigned to Lily and Captain Harcourt's formation, alongside Maximus, the Yellow Reapers Messoria and Immortalis, the Grey Copper Dulcia and the Pascal's Blue Nitidus.

Temeraire gains his full growth and maturity when his Ruff and whiskers grow in which makes him even less like the other British Dragons and causes him to become a bit more lacking in self-confidence. But his speed and agility is noted and at one point Laurence clockes him as traveling twenty-five knots. But Edward Howe sends Temeraire a book of Chinese stories translated into English and on the cover is a picture of the Yellow Emperor, a Celestial Dragon that looks just like Temeraire.

A new dragon arrives at the covert and the dragon is given precedents over Temeraire which he did not like at all. It is the impetus for Temeraire to push his rights of precedence in feeding by joining the others without invitation.  When the two largest dragons do not dispute it, everyone goes along with the new order and Temeraire joins the other, large dragons in eating first. The new dragon is Praecursoris, captained by the French royalist Jean-Paul Choiseul.

To help keep boredom from setting in and to give Temeraire a challenge, Laurence and his crew begin experimenting with and designing their own aerial maneuvers, which become of great interest to Celeritas. Demonstrating these maneuvers; however, has to wait as Lily's formation is deployed to the Channel, replacing Mortiferus's formation, who has gone to fight the French fleet.

### Dover Covert

On their way to their new posting at Dover Covert their wing is attacked by French dragons. Temeraire and Laurence has their first encounter with French dragons: a battle near the Channel against a Fleur-de-Nuit, Pecheur Couronne and a Grand Chevalier. During the battle Temeraire is able to successfully defend Lily from the attacks of the Grand Chevalier, though she was still badly injured. The battle is won upon the arrival of Excidium, another Longwing. Afterwards Temeraire laments on the pointlessness of the battle, though Laurence assures him he had fought well and honorably.

Only a few days later Temeraire, along with Nitidus and Dulcia are ordered to trail Excidium's formation on the first led of their Channel patrol, whereupon Temeraire teaches the other two dragons how to fish. The next couple of weeks are quiet for Laurence and Temeraire, allowing them both to rest and read.

When Temeraire hears noises in the night, Laurence goes to investigate and discovers Choiseul trying to kidnap Harcourt and Lily.  When Choiseul is executed for treason and Praecursoris shipped to a breeding colony Temeraire, Maximus and Lily consoled each other, but Temeraire expresses his views that Preaecursoris was just as much to blame for letting Choiseul attempt the kidnapping and betrayal. Temeraire enters into an agreement with Maximus and Lily: that if any of their captains are ever scheduled for execution, they would all band together to prevent it.

### Battle of Dover

Almost immediately after Levitas's death is the Battle of Dover; which Temeraire's formation participates in, under the overall leadership of Admiral Lenton and his dragon: Obversaria. The battle primarily consists of the British dragons trying to destroy Napoleon's dragon troop carriers, most of which are carried by middle weight Pecheur-Raye's. The battle is decidedly won by the British when, for the first time, Temeraire uses his unique Celestial ability: The Divine Wind, to great effect, shattering several of the French dragon transports and causing the French Marshal to retreat. Several of Temeraire's crew: Lieutenant Johns, Midwingman Challoner, Midwingman Wright and Midwingman Collins are killed during the battle.

### Epilogue

After the battle, Temeraire and other members of the Covert attend a musical performance organized specifically for them, wherein he is visited by Sir Edward Howe, who informs him and Laurence that Temeraire is a Celestial, the rarest breed of dragon in the world.

*See also: William Laurence*

## Temeraire

* Friends
* Route Map
* Peking
* Attack

### 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*

### London

Before the story starts, the Chinese delegation has arrived in London to protest the British using one of their Celestial Dragons as a Beast of burden. Nor do they recognize that the egg was captured from the French ship transporting it and they demand Temeraire be returned to the Chinese. The British Admiralty is willing to let them take Temeraire back with them, but Temeraire refuses to go. The Admiralty separates Laurence and Temeraire and they haven’t seen each other for a couple of weeks. Since Temeraire is refusing to go with them willingly, the Admiralty orders Laurence to lie to Temeraire to get him on the transport and taken to far out at sea so he can not fly back to land.

This is the point where the story begins with the First Lord of the Admiralty, Barham, threatening to arrest Laurence. After their meeting is over with Barham along with the Chinese delegation and a company of Marines go to the London Covert to meet with Temeraire where Barham lies to Temeraire and tells him that Laurence has taken another dragon. This upsets Temerare enough that he unleashes the Divine Wind on them, at that time Laurence is at the London Covert preparing to go back to the Dover Covert with Jane when he hears Temeraire and rushes to his clearing. Barham orders the Marines to arrest Laurence, so Temeraire snatches up Laurence with his claw and heads for the Dover covert where all of the dragons are preparing to take off to engage the French.

### Dover Covert

When they land in Obversaria’s clearing to talk to Lenton and Laurence has explained everything to him, Lenton tells them that he has no time to deal with them right then but realizes that there is no way that Temeraire will stay behind so orders them to get armored up.

Temeraire fights fiercely during the battle and Laurence is injured. Upon their return Barham is there with the Marines ready to arrest Laurence and pepper spray Temeraire if he doesn’t behave. All of the other officers of his crew stand ready to protect with drawn pistols and swords, until Keynes comes back and yells at the Marines and Barham for stirring up all of the dragons that are fresh from battle. Once the marines look around at all of the dragons looking into Temeraire’s clearing they put away their guns and leave, leaving Barham behind.

The next day the Chinese envoy decrees that Laurence must come with them to China and Linton decides that the entire crew had better go along so Barham doesn’t cause them additional problems.

### Voyage to China

#### French attack

Soon after they set sail, the French attacks the *Allegiance* during the night, led by a Fleur-de-Nuit one that wasn’t as sensitive to bright lights as the other ones they met were.  The dragon Is accompanied by two frigates.  The Frigates send over boarding parties, when Temeriaire uses the Divine Wind and sinks the *Valérie*, with all hands aboard.

Temeriare dived two low at one point and was shot in the chest with a special Dragon bullet, the Fleur-de-Nuit was just about on him, and Temeriare unable to get away when Lily’s wing of dragons arrive. With their arrival the other ship and the boarding party threw down their arms, struck their colors and surrendered.

A Dragon transport is coming from Halifax, the *William of Orange*, bringing a new dragon for the British to cross bread with their dragons. The transport is in flight distance of the *Allegiance* so after the attack, Captain Harcourt sends off her smaller dragons to bring them in closer so that they could take her wing back to Dover and leave much needed repair supplies with the *Allegiance.*

Temeriare’s injury is major but not life threatening and he is prohibited flying for several weeks. The Prince sets out to woe Temeraire while he is recovering. Prince Yongxing regals him with all of the advantageous offered in China to Dragons, teaching him how to read Chinese and speaking to him only in Chinese so no one can overhear what he says.

When they pull in at Cape Coast to replenish the food supplies, the main slavery port, Temeriare is deeply affected by the sight of the slaves and the way they are treated, which has further impact on his views on several different subjects throughout the rest of the story.

Soon after crossing the Equator, Volly  and James arrive with dispatches and mail,  Volly is sick with what is assumed to be a cold. Since Volly spends the night with Temeriare on the dragondeck, he ends up by catching it too.

Harcourt writes to Laurence and sends the Dragons greetings to Temeriare:

#### New Year

*Mid-February 1806*

During the New Year feast Yongxing has his cooks prepares food for Temeraire the way that the Dragons in China eat.  Temeraire quickly comes to appreciate having his food cooked and prepared the Chinese way instead of eating it raw.

#### Capetown

*March 1806*

By the time they reach Capetown, Temeriare is very ill and not at all interested in eating anything.  While supplies are laid into the ship and any final repairs are made, the Chinese Delegate and the aviators stay at a castle.  Laurence grows concerned over Temeraire not eating so he prevails upon the cooks to prepare some tempting meals for him.  They start experimenting with local ingredients that the native children bring to them, one of which is a very large fungus (mushroom relative), a very smelly one.  But the cooks make it into a sauce and Temeriare pours it over his meat and devours it.   Soon after Temeriare starts to improve.  At this time, no one connects him getting better with the very smelly fungus.

#### Indian Ocean

Blown of course and not corrected by the inept Lieutenant Beckett, while on watch, they encounter weather bad enough that they have to chain Temeraire down to prevent his shifting around upsetting their ship. This caused a lot of anguish in both Laurence and Temeraire.

The storm blew for 3 days, even though Laurence spent the entire time with Temeraire, he was in a foul mood by the time they were able to remove his chains and he took off for a solo flight, without Laurence or Harness.

Almost three weeks later they came to the island of New Amsterdam where Temeraire spent time watching the Seals playing in the Ocean, but as soon as he joined them in the water, they scattered, so all Temeraire could do is watch them from a distance. They spent a few days there with the sailors "sealing", hunting the seals for their meat.

From there, they strike off across the Indian Ocean to go directly to Dutch East Indies, but a few days later
a Sea Serpent attacks the *Allegiance*. Temeraire kills it though he tries to stop it’s mindless rampaging first.  Temeraire regrets that he could not make her understand that she had to stop.

#### China

*Macao, China - June 16, 1806*

When they first arrived in the harbor at Macao, the chinese on land went crasy, shouting “Tien-lung, tien-lung!”
Xongxing explained that it was good luck to see a Celestrial, so they were excited to see him because they rarely have ever had the chance before.

Once they arrive in Peking Temeraire meets the other celestial dragons including his Mother and twin brother.  He also meets his first intimate companion, Lung Qin Mei, a charming female Imperial dragon.

Temeraire discovers that there is another way to live for Dragons, other then the way he has known in England.  In China, Dragons have full citizenship and are paid for any work they do for humans.  They are great readers and writers themselves and have appropriate tools to make it possible for them to turn pages and to write with instead of dictating.

When Temeraire is absent overnight, Laurence and his crew are attacked at the place they are staying and Willoughby is killed. Laurence believes it is the work of Prince Yongxing

When Laurence is attacked during a play being performed for everyone, Temeraire kills the knife thrower and then goes after Prince Yongxing. Lien protects him and attacks Temeraire, during the aerial fight, they destroy the scenery for the play which results in shards of wood flying everywhere, with a long shard enters Yongxing's eye, killing him instantly. This stops the fight but Lien vows revenge against Temeraire and the British.

He decides to leave China with Laurence so that he can spread the word to other European dragons that they have choices and to make a difference in the way they live and are treated.

## References

1. ↑ Novik, Naomi. In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War) (p. 455). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Novik, Naomi. In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War) (p. 517). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

## Temeraire

* Desert
* Topkapi
* 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*

### Macao Harbor

While becalmed in the Macao Harbor, one of the cooks that Laurence hires to prepare meals for Temeraire accidently (presumably) starts a fire aboard the ship and in returns dies in it.  The ship is severely damaged and repairs will take months. But Laurence receives orders to take Temeriaire immediately to Istanbul to retrieve three eggs that the British bought from Turkey.

Their only option is to go over land.  Laurence hires the guide Tharkay.

### Macao to Istanbul

#### Taklamakan Desert

Just prior to starting out across the desert, they buy 30 camels and each camel carries two great casks full of water skins, enough for a day for Temeraire only. Then he eats the camel. During the day Laurence and Temeraire fly and rest somewhere in the shade, while the rest of the crew lead the camels. Four days into their trek, a great sandstorm hits them. They had enough warning to put up the tents and to secure and shelter the camels. The Sandstorm blew for two days. When it was over, they discover one of the tents for the camels is gone along with half of the camels and the water they carry. They could find no trace of them in the desert.

When they find their way to an oasis, there is a pool of clear cool water within a small building that they enlarge the opening so Temeraire can reach it and drink his fill, after several days of short supply. Tharkay has good news for them, that they would reach the city in four days so there was no longer need to ration their water and food so carefully.

They bedded down at the oasis for the night, but after full dark horsemen drive their horses through the middle of the camp, scattering the fire and spooking the camels. They are on a raiding run to get the camels and supplies. They were only able to get a few supplies before the crew and Temeraire drove them away.

Four days later they reached the town of Yutien which is hospitable to dragons, with dragons living and working among the humans. From Yutien they have only four days of travel to get to Kashgar, then through the Pamir Mountains before reaching Istanbul.

#### Pamir Mountains

When they are very high in the mountains a band of feral dragons fly down to their campsite, with three of them landing in front of Temeraire and acting like they are challenging him. Temeraire lets out a small roar with just an edge of the Divine wind to it and it echoes throughout the mountains. The snow and ice fall away from the peak and the avalanche sweeps down through the camp, catching a couple of the ferals and almost all of the crew.

After rescuing the two ferals and taking care of the wounds on one of them and rescuing all of his crew, with one death (Lt. Baylesworth), the ferals lead them to a cave for shelter.

Temeraire is annoyed when Tharkay offers the ferals all of the pigs that were killed in the avalanche.   But Laurence soothes Temeraire and explains that if they were asking to share their cave then they must offer something in return and pointed out how the ferals look half starved. Temeraire gave in and spoke to them in their own language explains about the pigs.

While talking with Temeraire in their own tongue, Arkady, the leader of the ferals tells him that another dragon just like him, but white all over and with red eyes had come through the pass and had given them 2 cows.

### Istanbul

Temeraire tries to explain to the Turkey Dragons that there are other ways to be treated, such as Dragons should be paid for their work, the way they are in China. He also finds out that the Kazilik egg that they are to retrieve, was the egg from the pair of Dragons that was sharing his courtyard the most often. From them he learned that the eggs are being kept in the Harem, near the baths.

#### Escape

As soon as they retrieved the eggs, but while boarding Temeraire, he sprang off for flight a fraction of a moment before they had finished securing all of the eggs. As the Turkish guards gave chase and Temeraire's sudden take off, the silk around one of the eggs was caught on the ground still and the egg started to fall, in a effort to save the egg Digby releases his harness and grabs for the egg, they both fall to their deaths.

Temeraire and his entire crew are shocked and grieving but they didn't have time to mourn as the Kazilik's are on their tail as they dash and Temeraire's top spead to the Austrian boarder.

When they finally cross the boarder and land at one of the forts, Temeraire is very exhausted and depressed. They only stay a day and a night, then leave again immediately for Austria.

### Prussia

Once they arrive in Prussia they are denied safe passage across the country and are held accountable for the promised 20 British dragons that never showed up. They are assigned to Prince Louis Ferdinand, commander of the advance guard. Temeraire is eager for battle but dismayed at the tight formation flying that the Prussian dragons expect him to comply with. He sees so many problems and vulnerabilities with their maneuvers but is unable to make the Prussians take his warnings seriously.

#### Battle of Saalfeld

*October 10, 1806*

Soon after their arrival in Saalfeld, Laurence hears the Prussian officers laughing about Napoleon making a Dragon an officer. When asked it is confirmed that the dragon is all white, Lien is there and in charge of the Aerial Forces.

Prince Louis advance guard is to hold the bridge at Saalfeld for the rest of the Prussian forces, which never come.

*Further information: Battle of Saalfeld*

##### Aerial Battle

A band of small dragons with no effort at formation flying harry Erocia’s formation madding the dragons with small cuts and wounds. When finally, Captain Dyhern gives the signal for the formation to break up and fight the small harrying dragons individually, the French troops break from the forest. Temeraire is the first to see them and the only one in a position to do any good, he dives down and lets loose the Devine Wind before the French reaches the Prussians. Right after his assault, the rest of the French forces rush out of the forest and engages directly with the Prussians, overwhelming them and Prince Louis is killed.

Erocia’s formation and Temeraire are ordered to collect their ground crews and retreat to Jena.

##### Aftermath

Temeraire at first was despondent on not making the Prussian dragons listen to him about the problems with their formation, until Laurence sooths him with the fact that they had to see for themselves that there were problems and he should instead figure out slight changes that wouldn’t make it so they had to learn totally new formations. Temreaire eagerly redesigns the formations and Laurence take the new plans to Dyhern. Dyhern agrees to try it and chivies all of the other Captains to go along with it.

Other dragons came to watch along with their captains and when Dyhern’s formation lands they are swamped with questions, soon the other dragons are flying the modified maneuvers. There is a new sense of excitement that dispels the depression of defeat.

#### Battle of Jena-Auerstedt

*October 14, 1806*

It is during this battle that Temeraire calls Laurence’s attention to an oddity that the horse he is eating is wearing. It is hood with blinders and herbal scents around the noise. The purpose is so the horse wont scent or see the dragons and the Calvary can fight closer to the dragons then before.

*Further information: Battle of Jena-Auerstadt*
##### Aerial Battle

The small light French dragons harassed the Prussian dragons while the French heavy weights rest and eat. When the battle looks like it is turning in the Prussian favor the French heavy weights launch, but the smaller dragons keep fouling the view of the Prussian dragons and their crews so no one can see what the French are up to. When the Prussian dragons meet the French the heavy weights are in a wedge formation, but instead of giving battle to individual dragons they sweep by them and the middle weights which make up the middle of the wedge, crammed with extra crew, surround the Prussian dragons while their boarding parties jump over. Every Prussian heavy weight dragon, leaders of their formation are captured this way.

Temeraire is also harassed but his quickness saves him from being captured even though he has a small boarding party land on him. The boarding party lands near Laurence and young Badenhaur throws himself on top of Laurence and takes a knife wound. Granby sees the boarders and throws off his harness to make haste to Laurence’s rescue, but two of the boarders grab Granby and throw him off, Temeraire immediately dives after Granby and saves him within his talons before it is too late.

##### Aftermath

The King has gone to Sömmerda, which is the fall-back location. As soon as Laurence gets the word they fly their themselves taking in as many of the lost dragons ground crews and supplies as they can manage.

#### Iskierka

Laurence finally decides to quit the field and head for England, fleeing North as fast as Temeraire can carry them. Temeraire flies to exhaustion each day while trying to avoid Napoleon’s dragons, then hide at night while hunting for supplies to feed Temeraire and themselves and for Temeraire to get the rest he needs. While holed up in a derelict Castle Iskierka is born.

As the egg cracks and the hatchling is born, Temeraire instantly looses his protective instincts and is very upset that Granby will harness Ishierka. Temeraire suggests Ensign Allen could more easily be spared, not Granby and his food. There are four French dragons right outside the Castle waiting for them, so they are in a rush to get aboard and to leap into action. Ishierka is ready to fly and fight the enemy, but Temeraire just picks her up with his mouth and sets her on his back, while Granby scrambles aboard so he can strap her down.

They continue their flight towards the Baltic Sea and the British Ships waiting there, but have to sit down for more food for Ishierka, so when they spy a heard of cattle, Laurence decides that they will help themselves. This results in a conversation between Temeraire and Laurence concerning stealing and not stealing. As soon as they land, Ishierka jumps on one of the cows and starts gnawing it, trying to break through it's hide. The only thing this did is set the cow off making a big enough racked to wake up the entire farmhouse. Temeraire sweeps down and picks up Ishierka and her cow in one claw and another cow in his other claw, while Laurence throws down some gold coins to cover the cost.

A French patrol soon finds them as they continue their journey north and follows close behind them the entire time until they reach Danzig.

#### Siege of Danzig

*November 6 - 20, 1806*

Fleeing before the French across Prussia, Temeraire and Laurence are forced to set down at Danzig. All hope of surviving the Siege is lost until Thackery arrive with the 20 feral dragons  Arkady’s band.

It is Temeraire’s idea to make the type of fastenings that they use in China for Dragon transports and take the Prussian troops with them when they flee Danzig. The British transports are waiting just a few miles away, waiting for Russian troops that will never come.

While waiting for night to fall to start transporting the Prussians, Temeraire is despondent over loosing to Napoleon as it means that the British will be at war much longer so waiting to improve the lives of the Dragons will have to wait. But Laurence has changed his opinion and now agrees that improvements must be made now as Napoleon has shown how it strengthens a nation that seeks for a better relationship between humans and dragons.

Making a desperate gamble, Temeraire and the feral dragons transport nearly all of the 15,000 Prussian troops out to the British transport ships waiting just off shore in the Baltic Sea.

They nearly succeed in escaping when the French realize what is happening and Lien goes after Temeraire, but once again he escapes her.
{{further|Siege of Danzig

## References

1. ↑ Novik, Naomi. Black Powder War: A Novel of Temeraire (pp. 180-181). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

## Temeraire

* 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.

## Temeraire

* 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.

## Temeraire

* Vase
* Map
* Sea Serpent

### 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*

## 1809

from *Tongues of Serpents*

Temeraire and Laurence are sent into exile with three eggs that the British considered undesirable. A few senior aviators that were also considered undesirable were sent to be the captains if the eggs hatched as well as various crew members to start a covert in New South Wales.

### Terra Australis

The seven (or eight) month voyage is uneventful, except that Iskierka with only Grandby as a passenger joins them on the ship, much to Temeraire’s disgust. Iskierka is demanding an egg from Temeraire because she things a cross between her, a fire breather and a Celestial dragon would turn out to be amazing.

Once they arrive in Australia, they discovered a nearly lawless town full of slothful and drunken people, including the royal guards, nicknamed the “rum guards”.  Soon after their arrival Jeremy Rankin arrives and Laurence receives orders to allow him to be put to the first dragonet to be born.

Temeraire does his best to instruct the first egg to harden against Rankin, but when Caesar is born, he proves to be a perfect match to Rankin and accepts him as his captain.

Temeraire is concerned over Laurence as he seems very unhappy with their situation and Temeraire becomes very disgusted with Kangroo meat.

All of the Dragons, Aviators and a gang of convicts set out to discover a way through the Blue Mountains and to build a road to the pass.

During their search they become turned around and lose their initial source of water, when Caesar gets heat stroke, amidst protests Temeraire has to carry him and Rankin. Eventually Tharkay finds them water but the yellow reaper egg is stolen. Temeraire and Iskierka become frantic to find it.

While still on the trail of the missing egg, the last, too small egg hatches. The poor dragonet doesn’t seem to be fully formed, can’t fly or hunt immediately, which many of the party include the dragons take as a sign that it won’t survive. None of the remaining aviators are willing to harness it and while they are arguing over who is going to put it down against Laurence’s insistence that if the dragonet is to die it will do it on its own self without any help,  Demane harness and names him Kulingile.

While hunting down the missing egg, Temeraire becomes ill with a cough, sore throat and loss of appetite which Gong Su is unable to revive so makes tea and broth for him to eat and everyone else has to fend for themselves.

### Sand Trap

Temeraire falls asleep on sand but in the morning discovers that it has become quick sand, other than not being able to get out of it, not in any mortal danger unless they can’t get him out.  Tharkay is convinced that the bunyip diverted a nearby spring of water to the area under Temeraire to create the quagmire.

Once freed they continue on the trail of the missing egg, until they come to a hidden port on the Indian ocean where they discover the young dragon, Tharunka as well as a Chinese port of trade.

### Chinese Port

They linger there for a few weeks recovering from their long journey.  While there they met a new breed of Dragons that the Chinese have breed, these Dragons can travel without landing for days and even weeks.

They are invited to a big feast where merchant ships from many different nations arrive to attend. After the feast they find out how the Chinese have transported many tons of goods across the Indian Ocean, by using trained Sea serpents.  The Sea serpents can carry many tons of cargo and travel very fast. A few days later two British ships arrive to put a stop to Chinese incursion onto the Australian continent.

When they plan on firing upon the port and destroying it, Temeraire starts working out how he can stop them.  He plans to recreate a tidal wave the way that Lein did in the English Channel, but not directed at the ships.  Laurence stops him and explains to him the difference between treason for selfish reasons and for a higher good.  Laurence isn’t happy with Temeraire and Temeraire is down cast that he cost Laurence again.  Before they land, the sea serpents are called to attack and destroy the ships.  Temeraire and the other dragons rescue as many of the British sailors that they can and then are told to leave. They travel with the sailors over land back to Sydney.

### Return

Once returned to Sydney they discovered a new governor and that the sea serpents have been seen in the harbor. The new governor is bent on making the Chinese pay for incursion on to the continent so plan an attack against the Sea Serpents. The same leaders that had rebelled against the previous governor understand how foolish his plan is, so stages another coup and take over.

John Macarthur one of the community leaders and one of the rebellion's leaders wants Laurence to take over the covert in Sydney or to become a Minister, the deposed governor wants to send Laurence and Temeraire to a prison in India, anywhere to keep them out of the hands of Macarthur. Laurence and Temeraire set off to their Valley that they clamed to build a pavilion and to fatten up the cows.

## References

1. ↑ Novik, Naomi. Tongues of Serpents: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 211). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

### 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*

### Terra Australis

Laurence and **Temeraire** are settling into their Valley and Temeraire is buidling an elaborate Pavilion when Hammond arrives on courier from China with an offer for Laurence to be pardon and reinstate if he would take on a mission to South America.

After consideration Laurence accepts and they travel to Sydney where he puts together a crew for Temeraire. The pickings are pretty slim for crew, but much to his surprise and pleasure, Ferris shows up. Laurence still can't reinstate him as an officer but he brings him along in an unofficial capacity. This results in somewhat strained circumstances with Forthing who Laurence does choose has his First Lieutenant.

After an incident with Emily Roland and some members of the Rum Corps, Laurence decides that she needs a woman to help guide her, he hires a young widow that he recently had meet, Alice Pemberton through the help of Elizabeth Macarthur. In return for her help, Laurence has to take along a young orphan boy, Gerry as a runner.

### Voyage to South America

**Aftermanth**:

crew lost:

crew gained: Baggy

Died on the Island:

* Bessey - Sailor
* George -

## References

### 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*

## 1812

from *Blood of Tyrants*

Laurence and Temeraire have been been called to China, but off the coast of Japan their ship is caught in a storm.

## References

### 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*

### The Stolen Egg

While mopping up in Russia’s winter, they receive word that Temeraire and Iskierka’s egg has been stolen from China. Because of Laurence’s injury resulting from a duel, Temeraire sets out alone for the long journey overland. During the journey, Temeraire discovers just what length the Russian peasants are going to, to trap and kill any Dragon that comes in their area. Tharkay arrives just in time to save Temeraire from serious injury or death while he sleeps.

Tharkay has word that the egg is on its way to France, so he and Temeraire return to Laurence. Once again, they set out and while searching through the Alps for the Dragons transporting the egg, they encounter Iskierka and Granby. She had also heard about the egg being stolen and that Lein plans on destroying it. They continue to search together now, in tell they spy a French dragon winging through the mountains and follow it. But it turns out to be an elaborate trap that succeeds and they are all imprisoned. The two dragons are separated from the humans and taken directly to Palace of Fontainebleau where the grounds have been completely altered to make a comfortable resident for many dragons.

Temeraire and Iskierka are allowed to see their egg and discovered it was being well cared for, but they didn’t want to leave it in the hands of Napoleon and Lein.

Eventually their Captains and Tharkay arrive and Fontainebleau, but they are only allowed to see Laurence and Granby briefly. Tharkay has a bit more freedom to visit them and suggest that they may have to take care of everything on their own. Temeraire and Iskierka eventually decide that they will have to steal the egg and leave behind their Captains until they can get the egg to safety.

While they are making their plans, they discover why there are so many dragons visiting the Palace, dragons from all over the world. They discover first that they came because Napoleon had given them the cure for the Dragon plague and he has created a plan to divide up all of the land into territories for Dragons, Code Napoléon Draconique,

Of course, the Dragons all see this is a great idea, without thinking through how it would actually work and the consequences. Temeraire also discovers that the French have approximately 4000 new eggs waiting to hatch.

When there is an unexpected disturbance on the ground that has a great many guards distracted, Temeraire and Iskierka act, first Iskierka sets their pavilion on fire while Temeraire retrieves their egg and they take flight. Before they get far, Temeraire who is carrying the egg, realizes that it is trying to hatch, so they set down near a lake and the dragonette hatches. Eventually known as Ning, she proves to be a very intelligent handful from the beginning. Ning creates a distraction by setting Fontainebleau on fire so that Temeraire and Iskierka can rescue the men.

### Dover

Once back in England while Laurence is making plans for the Russian Campaign in the Spring and what is hoped to be the final push to defeat Napoleon, Temeraire is dealing with uniting the British dragons for the war effort as well as against *Code Napoléon Draconique plan*, where he is hindered by an outspoken feral dragon that thinks it is just the most perfect plan in the world. With Perscitia’s help, Temeraire convinces them that Napoleon’s plan wont work because the next Emperor after him, may not honor the plan or make changes that the Dragons’ wouldn’t like, but that real laws for the betterment of all dragons have to be put into place in each country to ensure that not one person can change them.

Before they leave for the new campaign, Perscitia submits a bill to parliament, *DRAGON Rights Act 1813*

### Final Confrontation

Laurence and Temeraire come up with a plan to ensure the Dragons in their formations stay committed even when their captains were not as willing to follow Laurence’s orders or the ferals would rather go off and scrounge for treasure and supplies. Their plan is to allot shares of any spoils of war that they get based on their how hard they fought and obedient to orders. Many Captains became up-happy with this method of reward as they came to realize just how intelligent their Dragons really are and how covetous they are.

### Aftermath

Laurence decides to resign from the Aerial Corps. while they are enjoying some rest and relaxation on an estate of Laurence's brother, Tharkay arrives with the news that his estate has finally been settled and since his estate is in one of the new districts for Dragon representation at parliament, he invites Temeraire and Laurence to come and settle there so that Temeraire can go into politics.

## References

1. ↑ Novik, Naomi. League of Dragons (Temeraire) (p. 175). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Novik, Naomi. League of Dragons (Temeraire) (p. 237). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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