Wild Magic

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Wild Magic
Content
Protagonist(s)	Veralidaine Sarrasri
Attribution
Author(s)	Tamora Pierce
Publication Information
Publisher	Simon & Schuster/Atheneum
Chronology
Series	The Immortals

Wild Magic is the first in a series of four books, The Immortals. It details the emergence of Veralidaine Sarrasri (also known as Daine)'s powers as a wild mage and her coming to Tortall.

Cover flap summary

"Young Diane's knack with animals gets her a job helping the royal horse mistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. It soon becomes clear that Diane's talent,despite her struggles to hide it is downright magical. Horses and other animals not only obey the mysterious girl,they come to her and seem to listen to her words. But Diane will have to trust humans before she can come to terms with her powers,her past and herself."

—Cover flap summary

Dedications

"For Raquel Wolf-Sister and
Tas Horse-Hearted
who opened my heart to the songs of all the beasts."

—Dedication

Plot introduction

Wild Magic is set in the same world as The Song of the Lioness quartet. Thirteen-year-old Daine has always had a knack with animals, but it's not until she's forced to leave home that she realizes it's more than a knack-it's magic. With this wild magic, not only can Daine speak to naimals, but also she can make them obey her. Daine takes a job handling horses for the Queen's Riders, where she meets the master mage Numair and becomes his student. 

Under Numair's guidance, Daine explores the scope of her magic. But she begins to sense other beings too: immortals. These bloodthirsty monsters have been imprisoned in the Divine Realms for the past four hundred years, but now someone has broken the barrier. It's up to Daine and her friends to defend their world from an immortal attack.

Plot summary

The reader is introduced to Daine, a thirteen year old girl who can speak to animals. Daine meets Onua Chamtong, the woman in charge of the horses for the "Queen's Riders," and is hired to help bring up a group of new ponies to the capital of Tortall, Corus.

Along the way, Daine and Onua are attacked by strange creatures called immortals and later learns that nearly all of Tortall is being plagued by them. However, the immortals that attacked had been on the chase of a hawk, but not just any hawk. The hawk later turns out to be the powerful mage, Numair Salmalín. She also meets Alanna the Lioness. Upon reaching Corus, she continues as the assistant horsemistress, teaching Rider trainees and learning more about her own powers of "wild magic" (here she meets Evin Larse, who appears later in the Protector of the Small quartet).

On their way to summer camp at Pirate's Swoop, Daine, to continue her training in her wild magic, tells Onua and Numair about how she had lost her mind after the murder of her family and joined a pack of wolves to kill the bandits who had killed her family. The townspeople of Snowsdale then realized what was happening and tried to kill her, so she fled. After time, with the help of her only family left, Cloud, a pony, she gained her humanity and sanity. Relieved that her friends still like her, and after Numair, her mage teacher, enacts a spell so she will not lose her mind once again, she begins to hone her powers and soon learns to heal animals. Towards the end of the book, she saves Pirate's Swoop from an attack of pirates and immortals from Carthak. She's also left in charge of a dragonet, whos mother has died in the battle to help save Tortall. Daine nicknames the dragonet Kitten, her real name being Skysong.

Chapters

1. Girl with a Pony
2. The Hawk
3. Spidrens and Meditation
4. The Queens Riders
5. Wild Magic
6. Maglet
7. Buzzards Rock
8. Pirates Swoop
9. Siege
10. Listening Far Enough

Epilogue

Characters

In order of appearance/ mention:

• Onua Chamtong - Horsemistress for the Queen's Riders
• Veralidaine Sarrasri - protagonist; Assistant Horsemistress for the Queen's Riders
• Cloud - Daine's pony
• Horse Lords - K'miri gods/ goddesses
  • Chavi West-wind - goddess of cleansing, belief/ religion, music, and marriage
  • Bian North-wind - mother of horses, goddess of trade, sleep, and fertility
  • Shai South-wind - god of magic, volcanoes, sex, and healing
  • Vau East-wind - god of creation, travel, strength, and truth
• Tahoi - Onua's dog
• Goddess - Great God in the Tortallan pantheon
• Sarra - Daine's mother, killed by bandits
• Grandda - Daine's grandfather, killed by bandits
• Queen Thayet - Queen of Tortall; creator of the Queen's Riders
• Buriram Tourakom - Second-in-Command of the Queen's Riders
• Sarge - Trainer for the Queen's Riders
• Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau - King's Champion; Baroness of Pirate's Swoop
• Badger - animal god, watched over Daine
• Weiryn - hunt god, Daine's father
• Lord Sinthya - stole scrolls from Carthak to bring immortals into the Mortal Realms
• Zhaneh Bitterclaws - Stormwing queen
• Numair Salmalín - Daine's teacher; powerful mage
• King Jonathan - King of Tortall
• Hakim - member of the King's Own; rode with Alanna
• Darkmoon - Alanna's warhorse; Moonlight's grandson
• Miri - trainee Rider, Daine's friend
• Evin Larse - trainee Rider, Daine's friend
• Kuri Taylor - responsible for Rider girls
• Farant - trainee Rider
• Padrach - trainee Rider
• the Doi - fortune tellers
• Father Storm - god of the K'miri pantheon; father of the Horse Lords
• Mother Rain - goddess of the K'miri pantheon; mother of the Horse Lords
• Emperor Ozorne - Emperor of Carthak
• Selda - trainee Rider; quit at Pirate's Swoop
• Tarrus - trainee Rider
• Stefan - Chief Hostler at the Royal Palace
• Mangle - pack horse
• Spots - Numair's horse
• Ox - one of Sarge's horses
• General - one of Sarge's horses
• Whisper - one of Onua's ponies
• Silk - one of Onua's ponies
• Lory - Rand's wife; Gallan friend of Sarra's
• Rand - Lory's husband; Gallan friend of Sarra's
• Mammoth - Daine's dog; killed by bandits
• Hakkon Falconer - Gallan villager; tried to shoot Daine
• Mithros - Great God; head of the Tortallan pantheon
• Mynoss - god of the Carthaki pantheon
• Shakith - goddess of the Carthaki pantheon
• Prince Roald - Jonathan and Thayet's oldest son; Crown Prince of Tortall
• Princess Kalasin - Jonathan and Thayet's oldest daughter
• George of Pirate's Swoop - Alanna's husband; Baron of Pirate's Swoop
• Minchi - Padrach's pony
• Thom of Pirate's Swoop - George and Alanna's oldest son
• the Twins - Thom's younger siblings; remained unnamed in Wild Magic (Alan and Alianne)
• Jacy - trainee Rider; quit at Pirate's Swoop
• Kenelm - trainee Rider; quit at Pirate's Swoop
• Maude - nursemaid at Pirate's Swoop; healer
• Gimpy - Thom's bloodhound
• Lord of Mandash - killed by ogres along with his son
• Captain Josua - Captain of the Guard at Pirate's Swoop's
• Elnore - trainee Rider
• Mahil Eddace - head of the Lord of the Free Corsairs who attacked Pirate's Swoop
• Skysong's mother - dragon who attacked the Carthaki ships at Pirate's Swoop
• Graveyard Hag - patron goddess of Carthak
• Skysong - baby dragon; found by Daine

External links

• Excerpt from WILD MAGIC