All About Tortall

Books

Song Of The Lioness

This story, all four books, is about the making of a hero. It's also about a very stubborn girl. Alanna of Trebond wants to be a knight of the realm of Tortall, in a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors. Rather than give up her dream, she and her brother--who wants to be a mage, not a knight--switch places. She becomes Alan; Thom becomes a student wizard in the school where she would have learned to be a lady. The quartet is about her struggle to achieve her goals and to master weapons, combat, polite behavior, her magic, her temper, and even her own heart. It is about friendships--with the heir to the throne, the King of Thieves, a wise and kindly knight--and her long struggle against a powerful enemy mage. She sees battle as a squire and as a knight, lives among desert people and tries to rescue an independent princess. Singled out by a goddess, accompanied by a semi-divine cat with firm opinions, somehow she survives her many adventures to become a most unlikely legend.
     1. Alanna: The First Adventure (1983)
     2. In the Hand of the Goddess (1984)
     3. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (1986)
     4. Lioness Rampant (1988)

The Immortals

The story of Veralidaine (Daine) Sarrasri, an orphan with an unusual talent that everyone else considered madness. Though convinced she has no magical gift, it is discovered that she has 'wild magic'- a magic unlike the usual kind found in her world, that gives her a special connection with animals. She can speak with, occupy the minds of, change into, or force animals to obey (though she doesn't like to do this). These books follow her as she learns how to use her unpredictable magic under the guidance of the mage Numair Salmal�n. She is forced to use her unusual magic to help her friends, animal, human, and immortal, and finally the world itself when a wall in the realms of the gods breaks and monsters enter the mortal raiders. The series covers a time span of four years.

1.Wild Magic (1992)

2.Wolf-Speaker (1994)

3.The Emperor Mage (1994)

4.The Realms of the Gods (1996)

Protector Of The Small

This is the tale of Keladry of Mindelan, a girl who wants just one thing: to copy the feat of her hero Alanna the Lioness, and win her knight's shield. She is now old enough to be a page, and the King has decreed that any nobly-born girl with her parents' consent can enter the palace school. Kel has that permission, as well as the warnings of her parents and older brothers that she will not exactly be welcomed in her new life. They are right, but she means to succeed. To stop Kel in her tracks, the training master, Lord Wyldon of Cavall, insists that she be placed on probation. FIRST TEST is the story of Kel's probationary year.

     1. First Test (1999)
     2. Page (2000)
     3. Squire (2001)
     4. Lady Knight (2002)

Daughter of the Lioness

This duology is the story of Alianne of Pirate's Swoop, a 16-year-old girl with a knack for the spy game. When her father, Baron George, and mother, Lady Sir Alanna, refuse her a job with Tortall's spy forces, she decides to go sailing for a few days without telling anyone, only to be captured by pirates and sold as a slave in the Copper Isles. She soon discovers the beginnings of a rebellion there, between the dark-skinned raka natives and the light-skinned luarin invaders. She accepts a wager from the Trickster god Kyprioth to keep her masters' children alive in order to help fulfill his plans for the Isles, but is in for much more than she bargained for. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of raka conspirators, Copper Isles nobles, and crows-turned-men, she sets out to put the Isles to right, once and for all.
     1. Trickster's Choice (2003)
     2. Trickster's Queen (2004)

Provost's Dog

 A new trilogy set in the realm of Tortall, 200 years before Alanna: The First Adventure. George Cooper is a young boy (six) who is found stealing. His ashamed mother then tells him about his famous ancestor, named Rebakah Cooper. "Beka" Cooper is a trainee for the Provost's Guard, which is like the police force of Tortall. In those days, they were called "Dogs," and similar terms such as "Puppies" for trainees, and "Kennels" for what would be like a police station (This is where the term "Provost's Dog" comes from.), are used.The first book in the new trilogy, Terrier, tells about Beka's first months as a Puppy. All of Tamora Pierce's books up to now have been in third person, but this book is told from a diary-style first person. Beka tells us how hard she works to try to make her home, the Lower City of Corus, safer. The city is full of deaths, magic, and the such. And of course, as with Pierce's other books, there's plenty of dangerous plots afoot, and Beka has to be very wary to survive.

1. Terrier (2007)

2. Bloodhound (2009)

3. Mastiff (2011)