The Idhún's Memories
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The Idhún's Memories is a fantasy and adventure book trilogy
written by the Valencian Laura Gallego García
, authoress of other books such as Finis Mundi, Las hijas de Tara, Dos velas para el diablo, La emperatriz de los etéreos or the Crónicas de la Torre. The plot centres around three children Jack, Victoria and Kirtash, also called Christian by Victoria. All of them are predestined to change Idhún's destiny for ever.
The Spanish SM House has got the right of the book in Spanish. The trilogy has been translated into many languages, such as Catalan
, Portuguese
, German
and Korean
Books:
The SM House has relaunched the collection of new divided editions, with the result of six books. Also, comics about the trilogy are being done.
2009. The SM House published with the authoress the cover of the third comic, with the publishing date: beginnings of June
2010. Today, the SM House has published the cover and the publishing date of the fourth comic: autumn
2010. In that cover it appears Ashran, Aile and the beautiful Gerde.
and Idhún. In the last world live six races (warmbloods) in harmony: the humans, the Celestials, the Feerics, the Varu, the Giants and the Yan, and the demidivine species: unicorns, dragons and sheks (winged snakes). The sheks and the Szish, were exiled and driven to almost extinction by the dragons ages ago, but an infinitely powerful wizard, Ashran the Necromant, used his magic mixed with divine magic to cause an Astral Conjunction of the three suns and the three moons of Idhún to bring the sheks to Idhún, and kill every dragon and unicorn and help establish his dominion to the six warmblood races with the help of the coldblood (the Szish), but there's a prophecy which says that one dragon and one unicorn will make his fall.
The plot will centre around three teenagers called Jack, Victoria and Kirtash (also known as Christian). Some wizards escaped from the Astral Conjunction to Earth. There Kirtash was sent, a cold and efficient assassin, who is under the control of Ashran, to kill them. Jack and Victoria, Earth-born, will try to stop him with the Resistance
, formed by the prince Alsan of Vanissar and the wizard Shail.
Along the three books we discover that there is a complex plot behind the story. It all moves around a battle of Deities. The six gods of the warmbloods (Aldun, Irial, Karevan, Neliam, Yohavir and Wina against the Seventh, father of the coldblood. The Six created Idhún and for them, its inhabitants are only pieces to move in a grand battle. The dragons captivated the warmblood, and the shek the coldblood. While the unicorns channel the magic around Idhún with their horns in a random fashion, and being neutral in the war. The Six organized a plan (a prophecy), to make one unicorn and one dragon to survive and be Ashran's killer's. Then the Seventh God put Kirtash in the mission to kill the surviving dragon and Unicorn. The story only gets worse from there, because they will find new and powerful enemies as the beautiful witch Feeric Gerde
, who turns to be the right hand of Ashran after Kirtash betrayed him, and takes an important part in the third book.
, Idhun, Limbhad (a world between the Earth and Idhun), and Umadhun.
, Germany
, Denmark
, United States
, Italy
, England
and Japan
. Here it was born the hybrid essence of Jack and Victoria. In Germany Aslan is kidnapped and transformed into an hybrid. It appears almost in the first book, but also in the third one.
(as the animal transport, the fightings, the kingdoms, the cavalries, etc.). It is governed by Ashran the Necromant and by Zeshak (king of the sheks). The great amount of the population is divided in races, which each of them lived in one different kingdom. The Varu live in the sea (as they call, the Oceanic Kingdom), the Giants live in Nanhai (kingdom of mountains), remoted from the rest of the world. The Yan live in the Kash-Tar desert. The Celestial live in Celestia, and they can see what one person feels inside of him. The Feeric live in the Awa Forest and the humans live in Nandelt, separated in different humans kingdoms (Nanetten, Shia, Vanissar, Dingra and Raheld). The unicorns used to live in Drackwen where there is the Lunn Mt. and the Alis Lithban Forest. The dragons used to live in Awinor. And the coldblood live in the swamps of Raden. There are many demiraces in Idhun as the Shur-Kaili Barbarians, the Limyati, the Ganti and the Demivaru Pirates.
It was the exile place of the sheks in the Talmannon war. There, it's still living the oldest sheks, who don't want to come back to Idhun.
It was the place where Jack falls, won, in a fight against Kirtash. He went to Umadhun by the Fire Chasm. There Sheziss teaches him to control his hate against the shek.
Saissh means seven in the snakes' language, and belongs to a girl kidnapped from the Barbarians by the Feeric Gerde to personify her body in the future, but at the end it didn't happen.
Trilogy
A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games...
written by the Valencian Laura Gallego García
Laura Gallego García
Laura Gallego García is a Spanish author of children's literature. At 21, her first novel won the Barco de Vapor Prize, and she would win the award a second time for La Leyenda del Rey Errante, which was translated to English as The Legend of the Wandering King...
, authoress of other books such as Finis Mundi, Las hijas de Tara, Dos velas para el diablo, La emperatriz de los etéreos or the Crónicas de la Torre. The plot centres around three children Jack, Victoria and Kirtash, also called Christian by Victoria. All of them are predestined to change Idhún's destiny for ever.
The Spanish SM House has got the right of the book in Spanish. The trilogy has been translated into many languages, such as Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
and Korean
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
Books:
- The Idhún's Memories I: The Resistance
- The Idhún's Memories II: Triad
- The Idhún's Memories III: Pantheon
The books' division
Originally there were six books Search, Revelation, Awakening, Predestination, Upheaval and Genesis. Nevertheless the authoress and the SM House agreed to merge every two titles into one book, both with a similar extension (fourteen chapters, one preface and three epilogues). The mergers turned into the three books we have today.The SM House has relaunched the collection of new divided editions, with the result of six books. Also, comics about the trilogy are being done.
From Novel to Comic
In 2009, it was published the first comic, which is the first part of the first book, which is going to be divided in four parts. The two first parts are published by the SM House, and the second part it was published in OctoberOctober
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the...
2009. The SM House published with the authoress the cover of the third comic, with the publishing date: beginnings of June
June
June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. Ovid provides two etymologies for June's name in his poem concerning the months entitled the Fasti...
2010. Today, the SM House has published the cover and the publishing date of the fourth comic: autumn
Autumn
Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter usually in September or March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier....
2010. In that cover it appears Ashran, Aile and the beautiful Gerde.
Editions
Today exists only one edition for the three books, based on a hard designed cover. In The Resistance and Pantheon, the cover and the Back Cover have the same design, but different colours, whereas Triad has different drawings in the cover and in the back cover. The cover has changed along the editions.Film
Most of its fans asked and still asking for a film of this Spanish trilogy, but, the authoress said in an interview that she didn't want to make a film because the rights of the book won't be only her and that gave the film factory the power to change the history as its own like.Brief Summary
The plot centres about a chain of fantastic happening which will affect to two world: the EarthEarth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
and Idhún. In the last world live six races (warmbloods) in harmony: the humans, the Celestials, the Feerics, the Varu, the Giants and the Yan, and the demidivine species: unicorns, dragons and sheks (winged snakes). The sheks and the Szish, were exiled and driven to almost extinction by the dragons ages ago, but an infinitely powerful wizard, Ashran the Necromant, used his magic mixed with divine magic to cause an Astral Conjunction of the three suns and the three moons of Idhún to bring the sheks to Idhún, and kill every dragon and unicorn and help establish his dominion to the six warmblood races with the help of the coldblood (the Szish), but there's a prophecy which says that one dragon and one unicorn will make his fall.
The plot will centre around three teenagers called Jack, Victoria and Kirtash (also known as Christian). Some wizards escaped from the Astral Conjunction to Earth. There Kirtash was sent, a cold and efficient assassin, who is under the control of Ashran, to kill them. Jack and Victoria, Earth-born, will try to stop him with the Resistance
Resistance movement
A resistance movement is a group or collection of individual groups, dedicated to opposing an invader in an occupied country or the government of a sovereign state. It may seek to achieve its objects through either the use of nonviolent resistance or the use of armed force...
, formed by the prince Alsan of Vanissar and the wizard Shail.
Along the three books we discover that there is a complex plot behind the story. It all moves around a battle of Deities. The six gods of the warmbloods (Aldun, Irial, Karevan, Neliam, Yohavir and Wina against the Seventh, father of the coldblood. The Six created Idhún and for them, its inhabitants are only pieces to move in a grand battle. The dragons captivated the warmblood, and the shek the coldblood. While the unicorns channel the magic around Idhún with their horns in a random fashion, and being neutral in the war. The Six organized a plan (a prophecy), to make one unicorn and one dragon to survive and be Ashran's killer's. Then the Seventh God put Kirtash in the mission to kill the surviving dragon and Unicorn. The story only gets worse from there, because they will find new and powerful enemies as the beautiful witch Feeric Gerde
Gerde
Gerde may refer to:*Gerde, Hautes-Pyrénées, commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, France*Gerde, Hungary, village in the Baranya county, Hungary*Oszkár Gerde , Hungarian 2x Olympic champion sabre fencer...
, who turns to be the right hand of Ashran after Kirtash betrayed him, and takes an important part in the third book.
- In the first book the characters develop sentimental ties and fight in EarthEarthEarth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
while they discover their own true nature and they learn more about Idhún and the prophecy. The objective is to find the last unicorn and the last dragon.
- In the second book the characters must learn to live together and their emotional development is still growing, but now in Idhún. They must create the rebellion and the unicorn with the dragon must win against Ashran, because there's a prophecy which says that a dragon and an unicorn will kill him with a shek who will open them the door. Although sooner we discover that it's only a little battle of pawns inside a great divine war which may destroy everything. The relation between the characters becomes stronger because the characters are getting more mature.
- The third book explores the relation of the gods with the history of Idhun and Earth. In this book the relation of the characters makes bonds and become unbreakable. Their enemy will be Gerde who, although the Triad hates, must be helped by them.
Worlds
The plot develops in four worlds: the EarthEarth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
, Idhun, Limbhad (a world between the Earth and Idhun), and Umadhun.
The Earth
The Earth is our planet today. It has characteristic elements of nowadays, and the plot develops in many different countries, as SpainSpain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Here it was born the hybrid essence of Jack and Victoria. In Germany Aslan is kidnapped and transformed into an hybrid. It appears almost in the first book, but also in the third one.
Limbhad
Limbhad is a hidden world between Idhun and the Earth. To this world you can only arrive if you meet the Soul, one criature-machine created by the antique exiled wizards from Idhun to allow the way to any person who has the gift given by the unicorns the magic. Although, the Soul is a clever being which cans identify the bad intentions anb block the magic of the user who wants to enter to Limbhad. This world is always at night, and it's little. It's based in a little circular house (in the Celestial way), a little forest, the favorite place of Victoria, some mountains and a little river.Idhún
Idhún has essential characteristics of the Middle AgesMiddle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
(as the animal transport, the fightings, the kingdoms, the cavalries, etc.). It is governed by Ashran the Necromant and by Zeshak (king of the sheks). The great amount of the population is divided in races, which each of them lived in one different kingdom. The Varu live in the sea (as they call, the Oceanic Kingdom), the Giants live in Nanhai (kingdom of mountains), remoted from the rest of the world. The Yan live in the Kash-Tar desert. The Celestial live in Celestia, and they can see what one person feels inside of him. The Feeric live in the Awa Forest and the humans live in Nandelt, separated in different humans kingdoms (Nanetten, Shia, Vanissar, Dingra and Raheld). The unicorns used to live in Drackwen where there is the Lunn Mt. and the Alis Lithban Forest. The dragons used to live in Awinor. And the coldblood live in the swamps of Raden. There are many demiraces in Idhun as the Shur-Kaili Barbarians, the Limyati, the Ganti and the Demivaru Pirates.
Umadhun
Umadhun was the first world created by the Six: Irial (goddess of light and mother of the humans), Wina (goddess of life and mother of the Feeric), Neliam (goddess of water and mother of the Varu), Aldun (god of fire and father of the Yan), Yohavir (god of the wind and father of the Celestial) and Karevan (god of the rocks and the land and father of the Giants). It is full of underground galleries because of the heat temperatures. There is primitive life. Nowadays, (as Sheziss said it was ugly and boring). Was destroyed by the Six, when they were fighting between them, the Seventh God hasn't been created yet.It was the exile place of the sheks in the Talmannon war. There, it's still living the oldest sheks, who don't want to come back to Idhun.
It was the place where Jack falls, won, in a fight against Kirtash. He went to Umadhun by the Fire Chasm. There Sheziss teaches him to control his hate against the shek.
The world created by the Seventh
We don't know its appearance neither its real name. It's the world created by the Seventh, personified in the witch Gerde, to escape with the Sheks and the Szish from the fight of the Six, without any warmblood race, only shek and Szish, because Kirtash and Saissh didn't go there, remaining in Idhun.Saissh means seven in the snakes' language, and belongs to a girl kidnapped from the Barbarians by the Feeric Gerde to personify her body in the future, but at the end it didn't happen.