# The Elvenbane

**Author(s):** Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey
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**Genres:** fantasy, literary-fiction
**Pages:** 414
**Publisher:** Grafton
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 1991 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780765380517
**ISBN-10:** 076538051X
**ASIN:** 076538051X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-elvenbane

## Description

When Serina Daeth, favorite concubine of the Elf-Lord Dyran, conceives a half-blood child by him, she flees his wrath into the desert, where she quickly succumbs. But the child, born in Serina's dying moments, is rescued by a friendly dragon and raised with her own draconic brood. As the child Shana grows, she develops prodigious sorcerous powers--so strong that it seems she might be the fabled Elvenbane, powerful enough to free the enslaved humans from their elven oppressors. The dragons come to fear her unplumbed power, though, and cast her out. With a renegade elf-lord and his half-blood servant, and the aid of her remaining dragon friends, Shana prepares to challenge the elfish supremacy.

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