Dragon Quest (Usborne Fantasy Adventure) (Usborne Fantasy Adventure S.)

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Now that the villagers have finally accepted Darek’s dragonling, Zantor, they’ve all fallen in love with him. Dragonquest was the first Dragonriders book I ever ran across, albeit not the first I ever read since only a glance at the introduction showed thirteen year old me that the book was part of a series.

As Brekke considers the possibility of Mirrim Impressing a fighting dragon, F'lar arrives at Southern Weyr, and F'nor goes to meet with him. She immediately assumes that her mother is there to try and talk her out of avenging her brother's murder and tells her off. As Fandarel examines a strange object that allows for objects to be magnified — a microscope — F'lar wonders if a similar apparatus would allow them to see the Red Star, and allow them to travel there. Mentioning Meron, Brekke suddenly fears that he might be training it to go between, and she gets F'nor to promise he'll tell F'lar. F'nor is asked to take them to Mastersmith Fandarel, and ends up travelling to the Mastersmithhall, where he witnesses two dragonriders from Fort Weyr — one of whom, T'reb, is being affected by his green dragon, nearly ready to mate — attempting to claim a knife from Master Smith Terry as a tithe, despite it being a wedding gift for Lord Larad.Following this, F'lar requests the Weyrleaders assemble to deal with this matter, and travels to Fort Weyr — the eldest of the Weyrs, and thus the senior — for a meeting which begins after T'kul of High Reaches Weyr — already known for missing meetings — and R'mart of Telgar Weyr fail to arrive. Groghe demands the dragonriders travel to the Red Star to destroy Thread; F'lar says he will launch an expedition if they desire it, and goes on to explain how long it would take and what supplies they would need, noting that this would leave Pern completely unprotected.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. In the air, Prideth slashes at Wirenth's eye before the other queens arrive to separate them, only for Wirenth to evade them and go after Prideth again, causing both of them to fall. As they discuss a time when the Northern Continent will be covered in grubs, F'lar explains what dragonriders will do if they are no longer needed to fight Thread; they will explore the remainder of Pern, and the planets that surround it. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.While talking with F'nor, Brekke realises what Rannelly meant: Wirenth may be nearly ready to rise to mate, and she goes to check on her. Unfortunately though, McCaffrey makes some odd decisions with his character, for example when he speaks of wishing someone would “thrash Kylara” to “put her in her place. They discuss what they've seen, and what parts of the Red Star — which strangely appears to have clouds and water — might be safe to land on. Prideth falls asleep — Kylara realises she probably shouldn't have let her gorge — and Kylara goes to find Brekke to get numbweed for her arm, scratched when the fire lizard fled, only to find her involved with F'nor. Dragonquest, ISFDB lists cover artist Gino d'Achille for all three US editions before 1978, and none for contemporary UK editions.