They form the basis for the vibrant traders community of Bingtown that is starting to see itself threatened by the incoming of outsiders, their backwards values and interest in slave trade. With Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb introduces us to a new and very different part of the Realm of the Elderlings where ships come alive. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain Wild River once more. Now he lies blind, lonely, and broken on a deserted beach. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle, and drowned his crew. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven… Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes. Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.īut how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board. The most precious commodity in the world.
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