The Renegades of Pern: (#7) (The Dragonriders of Pern) [Anne McCaffrey] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. As long as the people of Pern. While recent tales of Pern have dealt with early eras on that turbulent planet, Anne McCaffrey, Author Del Rey Books $ (p) ISBN . The Renegades of Pern is the tenth book in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. It covers a time period that is parallel to the original.
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It covers a time period that is parallel to the original Dragonriders trilogy from an alternate point of view. Renegades of Pern opens with several short stories introducing many of the characters who appear throughout the whole story, bracketed against significant events in Lord Fax ‘s campaigns. After spending spring at Kimmage Holdthe Lilcamp trader rehegades begins traveling to Plains Hold to sell the lumber they’ve harvested.
When they stop to rest, the son of the Kimmage holder manages to reach them, where he announces that word has arrived at Kimmage Hold warning of the arrival of Thread – and announcing the arrival of a number of dragonriders at Telgar Weyr.
Crendenthe head traderbelieves this to be an attempt to get them to return to Kimmage Hold to aid in expansion, and he ignores the warning, although his son Jayge is not so sure about this. As time goes on, they notice odd weather and bursts of fire, and renegadea that Thread is indeed falling. In a panic, the traders are forced to shelter – human, beast and wagon – in a deep part of the nearby river, suffering many casualties as they do so.
As the Fall comes to an end, a dragonrider – an Oldtimer – lands and angrily berates them for being unprepared for Fall – the fact that they are out in Fall, and that Kimmage Hold hasn’t prepared a ground crew.
The next day, what remains of the train returns to Kimmage Hold, where Holder Childon tells them they cannot be supported – Childon needs to supply his family, tithe to Igen Weyr and supply ground crews – but allows them to stay in the beasthold. Crenden accepts, but his brother, Readis is unwilling to accept such humiliation, and leaves in the night. While raiding seedlings from Far Cry HoldThella hears about a Gather at Igen Holdand plans to attend so she can legitimately obtain supplies for her hold – ahne fleeing Telgar Hold, she attempted to re-establish an abandoned holdonly for her plans to be ruined mccaaffrey Thread fell – and thus attract people to work there.
Thella makes her way to the Gather and disguises herself as a desert holder, before ordering boots from a Mastertanner. Seeing a holdless man as she goes to eat, Thella notes she could recruit the holdless to work for her.
Eventually, she rests in one of the lounge areas, only to wake as a man attempts to rob the sleeping herder near her. She attacks the man, and is thanked by the herder, who requests she accompany him to his holding when the Gather ends – Thella agrees, planning to kill him for his marks. As they leave – having eaten and drank much wine – Thella realises they are being followed; the herder has hired a man to kill her.
Faking a fall, she outwits them both; the herder is accidentally killed by the hired man, who she then overpowers. The mccavfrey, Dushik – a former Tillek man-at-arms who was banished for killing three people in wrestling contests – reveals the herder was planning to murder several others at the Gather in similar ways, and that he was helping him in return for marks that would allow him to buy shelter during Mxcaffrey.
Thella recruits him – threatening to turn him in to Lord Laudey if he doesn’t – and they return to the Gather to recruit the holdless. At Southern Holdfollowing a complaint from Mardra that someone went through a sack containing tithesa ship arrives – part of Toric’s secret trades with the Northern Continent – carrying Hamiana Mastersmith and Toric’s brother, and a number of holdless men to aid in expanding the holding – Hamian reveals a dragonless man, Gironwas supposed to join them, but he disappeared en route, running after sweepriders.
Hamian delivers a message to Sharra from Rdnegadesstating that the Healer Hall is in need of numbweed. Normally Sharra is forbidden to leave Southern Hold, but Sharra uses this as an excuse to explore, and RamalaToric’s wife, convinces him to let them both go to harvest numbweed from a plain to the west of the Hold.
Taking three ships, they sail to the plain, and Sharra wanders off to gather renegadse, running into Piemur – having been accidentally brought South by Oldtimers mccaffrsy who joins her, later meeting up with Sebell mccatfrey Menolly when he travels to Southern Hold. Having abandoned her ideas of establishing a legitimate hold, Thella now commands a number of holdless people – including Dushik, Giron and Readis – and conducts raids across the eastern Holdsobtaining information from a number of sources.
Despite her careful planning, repeated thefts in Lemos are noticed by Lord Asgenarwho organises a meeting with Masterharper Robinton and the other Lord Holders whose minor holds are being raided. Noting the possibility that the thefts are being conducted by an organized group of renegades, the Lord Holders decide to start taking action. In the Southern ContinentHamian and Piemur sail down the Island River – which is easier to navigate than the Lagoon River – and notice ruins that Hamian thinks could be established as a hold.
Piemur notes he has become tired of setting up drum towers and wants to explore renegaeds Southern Continent. Meanwhile, Thella is informed of a girl living in the Igen Caverns – used as a shelter by a vast number of holdless – named Araminawho has the ability to hear dragons – and is the daughter of Dowell and Barla. Since she could use this ability to spy on the WeyrsThella approaches the girl’s family, posing as a Keroonian holder who wants to hire Dowell to make furniture for her.
Thella soon hears they are planning to return to their hold in Ruathaand fails to talk them out of it before Lord Larad’s men come to search the caves – partly to find information about the raids, and partly to recruit holdless men to work at mines and Smithcrafthalls.
Thella next plans to abduct Aramina, but her family leaves the Igen Caverns before she can do so.
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Assuming they’ll have joined a trader train, Thella – and Giron – ride north, encountering the Lilcamp train – united with the Amhold train. Thella tells them Aramina’s family are thieves and that they are looking for them, but Jayge truthfully tells Thella they haven’t seen them – unknown to Thella, several of the traders recognise her and Giron.
Thella and Giron continue north, renegaces finding Aramina’s family in a cave in Lemos – as detailed in The Girl Who Heard Dragons – with dragonriders lingering nearby, and Lord Asgenar’s men searching the forests. Believing they were alerted to Thella’s presence by the Lilcamp traders, Thella plans to attack the train on the way back. As time goes on, Mccafffrey moves away from the guards, allowing Thella and Giron to capture her, but she manages to alert the nearby dragon perj chases Thella and Giron away.
At Southern Hold, Toric decides to deal with the vast numbers of people trying to get to the Southern Continent by sending Renegzdes to meet with Masterharper Robinton to negotiate changing the restrictions on Southern Hold – leading to the meeting with the Benden Weyrleaders in ” The White Dragon “, and a number of inexperienced Lord Holder’s sons being sent to Southern Hold, much to Toric’s displeasure – renegaades Piemur notes they will whip them into shape.
Meanwhile, the Lilcamp-Amhold train continues north to Mccafrey Cry Holdbeing ambushed halfway there by Thella’s raiders, who unexpectedly flee when one of their number – Readis – sees dragonriders approaching. As Jayge rides to get help from Far Cry Hold, he runs into Readis, who reveals he was unaware they were raiding his family’s train, and that he lied about seeing dragonriders to halt Thella’s attack.
Jayge continues onward, and manages to get help from Far Cry Hold, before returning to the train to find dragonriders helping out. Fenegades and several others then follow the trail left by the injured raiders, only to find that they have been killed.
Amidst pen dead, Jayge finds a roll of papers addressed to Lord Asgenar: Jayge removes Readis’s image from the roll before giving it to the Far Cry Holder.
After the injured traders make it to Far Cry Hold, Jayge joins one of Asgenar’s troops in the hopes of tracking down Thella, who they note has begun raiding desperately. They begin searching for her main base, and sabotaging her various cave holds along the way. Meanwhile, Lord Asgenar is conveyed by K’van to Telgar Hold, where he informs Lord Larad that his half-sister Thella is responsible for the raids, and requests his aid in tracking her down. Perh, who believed her dead, has a mccafdrey idea where she will be hiding – an abandoned holding that Thella used to hide annne in her youth – and they send fire lizards to the location to see if there mccafrey people there.
There are, and they begin planning an assault, using old maps to ensure they can cover every exit. At dawn, dragonriders from Benden Weyr led by Larad and Asgenar storm Thella’s Holdcapturing many of the holdless living there. Thella is discovered to have escaped with several of her raiders through a tunnel not on Larad’s map, and they cause a rockfall blocking the entrance to the hold, which is soon cleared by the dragons.
Amongst the prisoners is Perschara wandering artist working for Robinton who has been leaving pictures of Thella’s renegades at key sites. The various stolen goods found at Thella’s Hold are returned to their owners, and Larad considers re-establishing the holding – allowing the holdless to stay mccaffrye they are willing to work.
Afterwards, Jayge leaves Asgenar’s troops, and heads east after Thella – in part to seek his own revenge, and partly because he fears she may attempt to wreak vengeance against Aramina, who was taken to Benden Weyr – also planning to get Readis to abandon Thella. Jayge travels first to Igen Caverns for information, then to Keroon Hold, where he helps transport mares to the Beastmasterhold and then to Benden Hold – mccqffrey he becomes attracted to a dark-haired girl, who he decides to attend the Benden Gather with after he returns from Benden Weyr – before traveling north to Benden Weyr, where he sees Thella with two men.
As he enters Benden Weyr, Jayge discovers from the guards that Readis was there recently to deliver mail to Aramina – Lf recognises it a trick to find out where Aramina is – and ends up talking with Lessawho reveals Aramina failed to Impress at the last hatching, and is being housed at Benden Hold, as her ability to hear dragons was driving her crazy at Benden Weyr.
Returning to Benden Hold, Jayge realises Aramina was the dark-haired girl he saw, and he is told she is out tending to an injured animal. This turns out to be a trap set by Mcacffrey, and Aramina is captured, prompting Benden Hold and Benden Weyr mccwffrey send out search parties. Unable to find Aramina, they conclude that she is being hidden in a dark cave or pit to prevent her from telling the dragons where she is.
Joining the search teams, Jayge manages to find Readis, who requests his help in freeing Aramina from Mccaffrry, who he thinks has gone mad – he reveals she killed Giron as they fled from her hold.
Readis leads Jayge to where Aramina is being kept, and the two rescue her, although Readis is attacked by Dushik, and the two fall into a deep pit – presumably dying. Jayge and Aramina manage to escape, and Aramina, unwilling to return to Hold or Weyr, tells Jayge of pegn plan to go to the Southern Continent. Jayge realises he could trade runners there, and decides to accompany her, as he has fallen in love with her.
At Southern Hold, Toric notes the absence of a majority of the dragons at Southern Weyrand Piemur reports they were practicing going Between. Three days later, Ramoth and Mnementh unexpectedly arrive and search Southern Weyr, before crying out and returning to Benden Weyr.
N’ton arrives and informs Toric that Ramoth’s queen egg has been stolen by the Oldtimers, and several dragonriders unsuccessfully search the area. Toric is later informed that Ramoth’s egg has been returned, and the missing Oldtimers return to Southern Weyr. To prevent something like this happening again, Toric jccaffrey to have a roster made of the Oldtimers, annd he and Piemur discuss if the searching dragonriders discovered the real size of his holding.
Following this, Piemur convinces Toric to live up to his promise – made three Eenegades prior – to let him explore the Southern Continent, and begins trekking east across the coast.
After two months of travel, Piemur discovers a settlement built out of ruins along a riverinhabited renegases Jayge, “Ara”, and their young son Readiswhich they call Paradise Riversince those words are written on an ancient sign amidst the ruins. Piemur stays with them a while, hearing the story of how they came here – they were shipwrecked while attempted to ship runners to Southern Hold – and planning to discuss their future as holders with Masterharper Robinton.
Oern time, he hears that Lord Jaxom of Ruatha Hold has fallen ill in a cove mccafffrey the east and is being treated by Sharra, and he continues on to it. Not long afterwards, chaos breaks out at Southern Hold – T’kul and B’zon have gone missing from Southern Weyr, the other dragons are making noise, and the fire-lizards have vanished. D’ram arrives, and informs Toric that T’kul has died rebegades Ista Weyrand he is to assume control of Southern Weyr, which is to be “restored”.
In time, the dragonriders reveal they are aware of the extent of Southern Hold, but have no wish to contest Toric’s holding; they only wish to explore the various ruins in the Mccaffey Continent in the hopes of finding out more about their ancestors. Meanwhile, Piemur remains at the cove with Sharra and a recovering Jaxom, and notes the two have feelings for each other – Piemur once had feelings for Sharra, but Toric, who didn’t approve, kept them apart.
The three begin exploring the area around the cove – which is soon made into a holding, Cove Holdfor the retiring Robinton, who suffered a heart attack at Ista Weyr. Piemur decides to wait until things settle down before revealing the existence of Paradise River. After his arrival at Cove Hold, Robinton organizes further explorations of the Southern Continent, leading to the discovery of an ancient plateau settlement of the ” Two-Faced Mountain ” – and later, three buried ships in a nearby meadow.
Toric thinks little of the Plateau when he is taken there, and is more concerned with putting an mccaaffrey to Sharra and Jaxom’s rnegades. However, his family turns on him after he returns Sharra to Southern Hold, and Jaxom soon rescues her – also revealing he was responsible for the return of Ramoth’s stolen queen egg – allowing them to continue their relationship without Toric’s interference.
Following this, Piemur tells Robinton about Jayge and Ara’s settlement at Paradise River, and they travel to ane site with a dragonrider the next day, briefly alarming Ara – who Piemur and Robinton recognise as the missing Aramina mccaffrdy who discovers to her horror and delight that she has seemingly lost the ability to hear dragons.
Robinton talks with them about establishing the ruins as a legitimate hold – Paradise River Hold – and Jayge begins sending word to his relatives, inviting them to settle down with him. Robinton and Piemur recruit Perschar – who has been drawing pictures of the finds at the Plateau – to draw an accurate rendering of Paradise River Hold. As he leaves, Piemur looks at a drawing of his of a hill at the ancient settlement, and notices it may be a buried building. The two travel to the Plateau the following day, and excavate it in secret, discovering maps showing the location of all the ancient settlements.
Blaming them for her misfortunes, she travels to the Igen Caverns, planning to recruit a number of Holdless men to sail south with her and kill Jayge and Aramina. Over the next two Turns, many new things occur, Eastern Weyr is established near Landing with T’gellan as Weyrleader, ruins along the nearby river are found and settled – despite the influx of travelers to the Southern Continent slowing as stories of danger spread – and K’van becomes Weyrleader of Southern Weyr.
At Cove Hold, Robinton notes a section of caves at the Plateau – which they now know to be called “Landing” – haven’t been excavated. Two days later, a recent “earthshake” is found to have unearthed an entrance to the caves, which they discover to be full of sealed crates, containing an immense number of ancient artifacts, which they begin cataloguing – during this time, Piemur meets Jancisthe granddaughter of Mastersmith Fandarelwho he gradually falls in love with.
Meanwhile, at Southern Hold, Toric discovers that Denolone of the holders at Great Bay Holdhas crossed the Great Bay to the islandwhich he is now attempting to claim as his own.
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At Landing, Piemur and Jancis plan to compare the discoveries found renegafes Landing with those at Paradise River Hold, and travel there, only for Piemur to be captured alongside a majority of the holders when Thella attacks the hold.
Aramina escapes, prompting Thella to lead her raiders into the surrounding forests after her. However, Aramina has rediscovered her ability to hear dragons, and uses this to call for help from Southern Mccatfrey – despite dragonriders not being allowed to interfere in what is technically a renegadee dispute, K’van rescues Aramina and frees the holders, before leaving them to solve matters themselves.
Jayge leads the holders into the forests, eventually finding Thella and her raiders. Jayge bests Thella in a duel, but refrains from killing her when Aramina calls him away. However, Thella leaps at her in rage, prompting Jayge to kill her to protect Aramina. Following this nane, Jancis reveals she discovered a record at Paradise River Hold detailing the “Admin Annex” at Landing, an unexcavated building that has been shielded with heat-resistant tiling to protect ” Aivas “.
Unsure of what an “Aivas” is, the building is hastily excavated, and a small group enters to find the “Aivas” – which turns out to be an artificial intelligence system that was used by the original settlers of Pern.