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Alanna of Trebond is the main character in Tamora Pierce's first quartet Song of the Lioness. She later appears in Pierce's other quartets: The Immortals, Protector of the Small, and Daughter of the Lioness. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that Alanna of Trebond be merged into this article or section. ... Tamora Pierce (born December 13, 1954) is a fantasy author who writes books for young adults. ...

Biography

In Alanna: The First Adventure, Alanna wants to become the first female knight in the realm of Tortall in over 100 years. Alanna disguises herself as a boy and trades places with her twin brother Thom and is able to undertake the training required to be a page in the palace under the disguise of "Alan".

In the second book In the Hand of the Goddess Alanna wins her shield and it is revealed that she is female. She battles the King's nephew Roger, who is trying to take over the throne. As for her love life, she is romantically and sexually involved with Prince Jonathan of Conté, her best friend and knight.

After defeating Roger, Alanna leaves to have great adventures (Woman Who Rides Like a Man) in the Bazhir desert. She becames a member of a tribe who dwells there, and unknowingly becomes shaman of the tribe (though she is later replaced by two of her students, of sorts). She also ends her romantic relationship with Jonathan, though they stay friends, and instead turns to George Cooper, King of Thieves.

In Lioness Rampant, Alanna sets out on a quest to retrieve the Dominion Jewel. In her absence she has an affair with a Shang warrior and picks up many friends, among them the princess Thayet (who eventually weds Prince Jonathan). Upon arriving back home, she finds that her proud brother Thom had resurrected her enemy Roger, which causes him to eventually "fade away" and die. Soon after, Roger regains his magic and she is once again forced to kill him. At the end of the final installment in the quartet, she is wed to George Cooper (Liam, the Shang Dragon, was killed protecting the newly made King Jonathan from Duke Roger of Conté's men who were trying to kill the king.) The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ...

Alanna appears in The Immortals quartet, in the Protector of the Small quartet and again briefly in the "Trickster" books. During the former, she befriends Veralidaine (Daine) and supports her throughout her troubles. In the latter as knight, she has the ablity to take on a squire, and wishes to take Keladry of Mindelan, the first female knight who does not have to hide her identity, under her wing. But she is unable to do so because people would say that Keladry only made it to be a knight because the Lioness bewitched her. Instead, she acts as an unknown benefactor, sending anonymous gifts that help Keladry as a knight-in-training. It is also thought that she asks Sir Raoul of Goldenlake, a longtime friend, to take her on as his squire. PAGE The second Protector book, details Kels remaining years as a page. ...

Children

Alanna has three children. Thom, the eldest, named after her brother, and twins Alianne and Alan, the latter named after her disguise and her father (real one, not adoptive). Her daughter Alianne is the most prominent, whose travels in the Copper Isles are the subject of the Daughter of the Lioness duology, AKA "The Trickster Series".