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My Favorite Books! By Destiny...   The Chronicles of the Emerged World is a recent Italian fantasy saga written by Licia Troisi, and published also in several other European countries. The trilogy is set in the Emerged World, where the evil Tyran Aster is launching a full-fledged war in order to take over the Eight Lands, and has almost taken control of all of them. The young girl Nihal, a Half-Elf (Half-Elves are considered a whole race in this setting) lives with her friends and her adoptive father in the Land of Wind, but then, the Tyrant invades. Armed with the precious Black Crystal sword and along with her friend Sennar and Laio and her master Ido, she begins her journey to become a Dragon Knight and fight the Tyrant and his army of monsters before it takes over the remaining free lands, and more. The trilogy's titles are: Nihal of The Land of the Wind, The Mission of Sennar and The Talisman of Power. The series was well-received by readers and became quite popular.    It also spawned two sequel trilogies known as The Wars of the Emerged World and Legends of the Emerged World but they did not reach the previous series' level of popularity.

Sennar and Nihal (Principal characters of  Chronicles of the Emerged World)

 

 

Nihal of The Land of the Wind        

 

 

The Mission of Sennar  

 

 

Italian cover of The Talisman of Power      

 

                    French cover of  The Talisman of Power

 

 

 

The story takes place on the eights ground of the Emerged World:

Land of the wind (were Nihal was born)
Land of the water
Land of the sea
Land of Fire
Land the sun
Land of the night
Land of days
Large land (where Aster, the Tyran, took up residence on his black crystal castle).

 

Nihal is a teenager a bit special: half-elf, half-human, she has "long blue hair floating around her head, violet eyes full of life, and large ears sharp." Daughter of a gunsmith, Nihal likes to fight with other children of the "world emerged," which is now subject to the power of a terrible tyrant. Her dream is becoming a warrior recognized that will overcome evil and spread peace.
One day, Nihal loses fight against a young boy who uses magical powers. She then obtained her father's permission to study magic with her aunt Soana, a renowned magician.

Learning will be long and full of ambush, but Nihal showed courage, and met with loved ones will be useful as Sennar, another student of Soana, or Phos, a funny little elf .

Nihal's father also plays a role in the success of his beloved daughter, making her a magnificent sword crystal black, beautiful as a gem and highly efficient.

But if Nihal is a true adventurer, who fears nothing and has nothing to envy the boys her age, she can not escape, however, neither in times of great sorrow, or the hassle of adolescence: first, she must overcome the tragic death of his father.

Here it is then that falls in love with a beautiful knight named Fen, which already courting her aunt Soana ...
Licia Troisi, author of the Chronicles of the world emerged, therefore cleverly alternates scenes of extreme violence (different fighting Nihal, a prestigious school to integrate Knight for example), and passages where feelings are more prevalent as dialogues with Sennar which shows a beautiful friendship.

Despite herself, Nihal is above all human, and thus it becomes a character as touching.

Determined, courageous, sometimes violent, it is especially sensitive, generous, and began to restore justice to the world emerged.

Does she succeed?

Thank you Destiny for this article: you know you can ask the school library to buy some books, if you think they might interest other pupils... Mrs P.