Chimaera (Well of Echoes)
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{{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]]
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