exoticfoki.blogg.se - august 2023

He travels with Ping to the ocean where he takes a mysterious stone, but he won't explain to Ping what it is.

Long Danzi, an ancient green dragon the last wild imperial dragon in the Han Empire.

Danzi disliked Hua until Hua ate a centipede that crawled into Danzi's ear. Her only friend before she meets Long Danzi.

Hua, a rat Ping carries around with her.

She was nameless before she met Long Danzi.

Ping, a slave girl who was the first-ever female Dragon Keeper.

Ping is now left alone with the baby dragon, the last imperial dragon and the first independent dragon. Before Danzi leaves, he gives the baby a name: Long Kai Duan. The stone (now found to be an egg) hatches into a purple baby dragon. After reaching the ocean, Danzi tells Ping he must go over Ocean to reach a river of life and will take Hua, who was hurt by Diao, with him, so that the river can heal them both. After killing the Dragon hunter, they go to the Ocean. Ping chases after him, but after they are reunited, they have to fight Diao, who injured Hua, and killed Wang Cao. Long Danzi abandons Ping for Wang Cao, suddenly mistrusting his instinct that she was a Dragon Keeper. She befriends the young emperor, Liu Che, and gets accustomed to life at Ming Yang Lodge. Ping also learns the value of friendship and courage and discovers her destiny as a Dragon Keeper.

While traveling with Danzi, Ping learns many things that will, in time, help her with her struggles. A necromancer and a dragon hunter named Diao, who are determined to kill the dragon and take the dragon's stone, are chasing her and the dragon. She must protect a mysterious stone that is vital to the dragon's legacy.

Ping and the dragon must go on a dangerous journey across China to Ocean, an apparent magical healing place. The dragon, Long Danzi (meaning courageous dragon), tells the slave girl her true name: Ping (meaning duckweed). The two (Ping and Danzi) escape, but when the emperor finds out that his other dragons are dead, Master Lan blames it on her and she finds herself chased by the imperial guards, who believe she is an evil sorceress. The imperial guards discover Ping, who was hiding, and pursue her. Instead, she eavesdrops on the Emperor's conversation with a dragon hunter called Diao. Ping is ordered to obtain some wine from the emperor's palace, however, she gets carried away. She finds herself coming to the last dragon, Danzi. She is forced to pickle the dragon for her slave master, Lan, and finds her guilt growing. After one of the last remaining Imperial Dragons, the mate of the aging one, suddenly dies, the slave girl feels guilty and responsible. Nameless and alone, the slave girl is without hope and her only friend is her pet rat, Hua. In the far western mountains of the Han Empire in ancient China, an aging dragon, his wife (who soon dies), and a young slave girl are used, abused and neglected by the cruel Master Lan. This is a story of a young slave girl who believes she is not worthy of a name but finds within herself that the strength and courage to make this perilous journey, and do what must be done. Pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter, the girl and the dragon make an epic journey across China carrying a mysterious stone that must be protected. Ping is a slave girl for the evil master Lan, and saves the life of an aging dragon and escapes her brutal master. There is also a prequel to the original Dragonkeeper novel known as Dragon Dawn. In the second trilogy of the series, there is the 4th book which is called Blood Brothers, then Shadow Sister and finally Bronze Bird Tower. The second book is called Garden of the Purple Dragon and the third book is called Dragon Moon. It is the first book of the Dragonkeeper series, which consists of six books (two trilogies) and a prequel. Dragonkeeper is a fantasy novel written by Australian author Carole Wilkinson.