- Chimaera (Well of Echoes)
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Chimaera Author(s) Ian Irvine Cover artist Marco Nero Country Australia Language English Series The Well of Echoes Genre(s) Fantasy, Novel Publisher Orbit Books, Penguin Books Publication date 2004 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 704 p. (paperback edition) Preceded by Scrutator Followed by The Song of the Tears Trilogy Chimaera is the fourth and final book in Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes quartet.
Official Synopsis
All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council's air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo's defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their allies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr's power and majesty.
The only one left uncaptured is Nish, but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his former lover, Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before Nish can hope to rescue his friends, he must convince Ullii to spare him, then overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world as well as the Council's four hundred crack guards.
And even if he succeeds, to win the war the allies still have to defeat the scrutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council's dread bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar.
Series Arc: The View from the Mirror
Book 1: A Shadow on the Glass
Book 2: The Tower on the Rift
Book 3: Dark is the Moon
Book 4: The Way Between the WorldsSeries Arc: The Well of Echoes
Book 1: Geomancer
Book 2: Tetrarch
Book 3: Scrutator
Book 4: ChimaeraSeries Arc: The Song of the Tears
Book 1: Torments of the Traitor / The Fate of the Fallen
Book 2: The Curse on the Chosen
Book 3: The Destiny of the Dead
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