![]() Thymara feels uneasy about the dragon's charm, and knowing it for a glamour reacts by walling off her emotions and simply caring for her in a practical way. She eventually forms a tenuous friendship with Alise Kincarron, who seems to have an easier time responding to the dragon's glamour. Unique among the keepers, Thymara has a rather tumultuous relationship with her dragon, with them both professing dislike of each other at numerous time. She similarly rejects Greft's posturing as leader of the keepers. ![]() ![]() Thymara prefers to make such decisions for herself. She is further uncomfortable with Greft's desire to pair off the keepers and is insulted by his suggestions that she should choose a mate in order to keep the peace. She at first perceives him as self-serving, which is borne out when Greft claims he killed an elk that she had hunted herself. Thymara has a tense opposition with Greft. These three take on the task of caring for the two dragons who are left without keepers, in addition to caring for their own. Her close friends are Tats, Sylve and Rapskal. As the story progresses she learns that the web of relationships is more complex and difficult. When she joins the keepers, she first believes they are all friends and she has found a place she can call her own. When she is offered a position as a dragon keeper, she persuades her father that the experience will be good for her as someone so deeply changed by the Rain Wilds, she will not be allowed to marry, and she perceives this opportunity will allow her to have a life of her own. She is full of sympathy for their malformations but admires them all the same. She witnesses the dragons emerging from their cocoons at Cassarick and can understand them immediately. She is resourceful and works well with her father, and her father's helper Tats. Their only child to survive, she is raised as a hunter and gatherer in the canopy of the Rain Wild forest. To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist.Thymara, born with claws and deemed unfit to live by Rain Wilds standards, is saved by her father, despite her mother's disapproval of his act. But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them. The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there the dragons will find their true home. Soon, they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. But the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old.Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly some seem witless and bestial. Leftrin, captain of the liveship Tarman, also has an interest in the hatching as does Bingtown newlywed, Alise Finbok, who has made it her life's work to study all there is to know of dragons. Like everyone else, Thymara is fascinated by the return of dragons: it is as if they symbolise the return of hope to their war-torn world. ![]() But her father saved her and her mother has never forgiven him. Born with black claws and other aberrations, she should have been exposed at birth. People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise. ![]() With its acid waters and impenetrable forest, it is a hard place for any to survive. Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in generations. The first book in The Rain Wild Chronicles from Robin Hobb.ĭragon Keeper returns fans to Hobb's best-loved world, full of dragons, magical ships and unforgettable characters. ![]()
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