Chimaera (Well of Echoes) 5125745 217906824 2008-06-08T07:06:55Z Boylo 3802355 artist {{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Chimaera | title_orig = | translator = | image = [[Image:Chimaera.jpg|200px|"Chimaera" Australian cover]] | author = [[Ian Irvine]] | cover_artist = Marco Nero | country = [[Australia]] | language = [[English language|English]] | series = [[The Well of Echoes]] | genre = [[Fantasy]], [[Novel]] | publisher = [[Orbit Books]], [[Penguin Books]] | release_date = 2004 | media_type = Print ([[Paperback]]) | pages = 704 p. (paperback edition) | isbn = | preceded_by = [[Scrutator]] | followed_by = [[Song of the Tears|The Song of the Tears Trilogy]] }} [[Chimaera (Well of Echoes)|Chimaera]] is the fourth and final book in [[Ian Irvine]]'s ''[[The Well of Echoes|The Well of Echoes quartet]]''. == Official Synopsis == All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the [[Council of Scrutators|Council]]'s [[Weapons of Santhenar (Well of Echoes)#Air Dreadnoughts|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 (Well of Echoes)|Nish]], but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the [[Council of Scrutators#Chain of Command|scrutators]] and his former lover, [[Ullii (Well of Echoes)|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 [[mancer]]s 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]]. == Characters == Characters who appear in this volume of the series include: *[[Tiaan]] *[[Irisis]] *[[Nish (Well of Echoes)|Nish]] *[[Xervish Flydd]] *[[Malien]] *[[Yggur]] *[[Gilhaelith]] *[[Ryll (Well of Echoes)|Ryll]] *[[Liett]] *[[Ullii (Well of Echoes)|Ullii]] *[[Vithis]] *[[Minis]] *[[Jal-Nish]] *[[Scrutator Klarm]] *[[Tirior]] *[[Fyn-Mah]] *[[Chief Scrutator Ghorr]] *[[Scrutator Fusshte]] *[[Scrutator Halie]] *[[Scrutator T'lisp]] *[[Great Anabyng]] *[[Amante Merryln|Merryl]] *[[General Troist]] {{Three Worlds Cycle}} [[Category:2004 novels]] [[Category:The Three Worlds novels]]