The Dragon's Pearl is alternate world fantasy focusing on the search for identity and obligatory duty. Kasandra, the Shamamic priestess, serves a simple island's people with help from Geoys, the silver dragon, whose pearl acts as a filter for the negative and evil. Kasandra's powers are fading as she approaches the time to turn the temple over to her daughter. Contrary to usual, she has had twins who have not yet learned to handle their powers, in spite of the fact the day of transition is close. The dragon's third 1,000 year cycle is also drawing to an end. Kasandra has realized the world is being threatened by a black shadow creature from the bowels of the earth, making the loss of her and the dragon's powers and the need to transfer the priestesshood to the young more critical. / Kasandra learns of a third daughter the elder wife thought was a curse and thus abandoned in the hills. Believing the Shamamic powers to be split among the three girls, Kasandra sends her mother and daughters in search of the third child, hoping their reunion will allow the girls to wield their powers and defeat the encroaching darkness. / The two daughters mature as they face the larger world and death, and the third child journeys from a free-spirited life towards her true family and destiny. The girls' eventual meeting is bittersweet; their reunion with Kasandra fraught with danger as they fight against the consuming darkness. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-03, Section: A, page: 0931. / Major Professor: Sheila O. Taylor. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76882 |
| Contributors | Harding, Wendy Lynn., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 301 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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