Difference between revisions of "Summary:The Hope of Elantris"

;Characters

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* [[Ashe]]

* [[Teor]]

* [[Tiil]]

* [[Riika]]

* [[Idotris]]

* [[Mareshe]]

* [[Taid]]

* [[Karata]] (mentioned only)

* [[Mai]] (mentioned only)

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;Plot Summary

After Elantris' restoration [[Raoden]] sits alone in his palace noting the city's new found wealth. [[Ashe]], [[Sarene]]'s [[seon]], floats in through an open window to inform Raoden his wife will not be attending their dinner, because she is pregnant and "it's his fault." Raoden settles in to listening to Ashe's testament to his whereabouts during the last hours before Elantris' restoration.

 

 

Everyone has a role in New Elantris; [[Matisse]] looks after the children of the Roost but on this night they cannot find the will to sleep. Outside, many of the adults have begun drawing [[Aon]]s. Matisse ushers the children to bed with threats of doing more school work if they wanted to stay up. As Matisse observes many of the adults outside surrounding [[Galladon]], Idotris claims Aons are useless before Matisse leaves the Roost. Searching out her adoptive father, [[Dashe]], he explains to her that Galladon is having the Elantrians practice Aons in the new form that he and Raoden discovered in [[Elantris (city)|Elantris]] - adding the chasm line.

Dashe repeats the mantra of a [[Hoed]], his mind broken. Instead of running from the approaching soldiers, Matisse holds on to Dashe's body, not wanting to flee. The Fjordell soldier interrogates her as to the location of the children, threatening her with pain before something happens: the ground shakes and suddenly Matisse feels warm, her skin turning silvery and her wounds healing. The Fjordell man is taken aback but still intent on causing her pain. Elantris is returning to life, but she is going to die at this man's hands. However, with the city's healing came also Dashe's, as he announces before killing the Fjordell man with the same sword that had impaled Dashe not long ago.

 

 

Ashe finishes his story; Raoden understands that Ashe wanted to stay with the children until the crisis was over, explaining his absence. Raoden then inquires to Ashe which of the two seons he sent Dashe for his services he gave to Matisse, expecting it to be Ati. Instead, Matisse has been given Aeo which Raoden considers equally appropriate.