The Healer's Keep

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name = The Healer's Keep


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author = Victoria Hanley
country = United States
language = English
series = Seer and the Sword series
genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = Holiday House
pub_date = October 2002
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 384 pp
isbn = ISBN 0823417603
preceded_by = The Seer and the Sword

The Healer's Keep is the second novel in the Seer and the Sword series, by Victoria Hanley.

Main Characters

;Princess Saravelda:Princess "Sara" Saravelda is the only daughter of Queen Torina and King Landen. She is fiery in spirit, yet very graceful in motion. She is highly gifted in the art of using gen, and is the first Firan to be seen at the Keep in over a hundred years.

;Dorjan:Dorjan is the first Genoven, or Dreamwen, to come to the Keep in hundred of years. He is the son of Cabis Denon and a Charmal. His eyes are the same color as Maeve's.

;Bern:Bern is a powerful Charmal who serves the Shadow King. He conspires to steal the gen from the Ellowens and the Keep and give it to the Shadow King.

;Maeve:Maeve is the daughter of Lila the Fair, a highborn, and Cabis Denon, a lowborn free. Outraged at his daughter's love for a lowborn, Lila's father marked her as a slave and threw her out of the house. Maeve, in turn, was raised as a slave, but managed to escape being marked. She has golden hair and skin, with the deep blue eyes of her father. She is able to tell a person's nature by touching them, and her mother tells her where to find the Dreamwen Stone before she dies. She also had a lovely singing voice.

;Jasper:Jasper is a lowborn free who helps Maeve and Devin to escape. Later he falls in love with Maeve.

;Devin:Devin is a young slave boy who works in the bathhouse with Maeve. He is marked by Lord Morlen, but his scars are healed through his dreams.

;Orlo:Orlo is an experienced slave who works in the bathhouse. Lord Morlen takes him along to search for Maeve and gives him vahss, a drug, to make him submissive.

;Lord Morlen:Lord Morlen is an Ebrowen who can find people through their dreams.

Minor Characters

;Lord Indol:Lord Indol is the original owner of Maeve, Lila, Orlo, and Devin

;Ellowen Renaiya:Ellowen Renaiya is the mystic instructor who names the gifts of the Keep's students.

;Ellowen Mayn:Ellowen Mayn is the Phytosen instructor at the Keep.

External links

* [http://www.victoriahanley.com/healer.html The book on Victoria Hanley's Official Site]