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{{short description|Series of science fantasy novels by D. J. MacHale}}
[[Image:Merchant-of-Death.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Merchant of Death, the first book in the series.]]
{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space''}}
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{{Infobox book series
| name = ''Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space''
| books = ''[[The Merchant of Death]]'', ''[[The Lost City of Faar]]'', ''[[The Never War]]'', ''[[The Reality Bug]]'', ''[[Black Water (MacHale novel)|Black Water]]'', ''[[The Rivers of Zadaa]]'', ''[[The Quillan Games]]'', ''[[The Pilgrims of Rayne]]'', ''[[Raven Rise]]'', and ''[[The Soldiers of Halla]]''.
| author = [[D. J. MacHale]]
| image = Pendragon boxed set.jpg
| caption = First, second, and third installments along with the box set casing
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| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = [[Young Adult literature|Young Adult]], [[Science fiction|Science fiction novels]]
| publisher = [[Simon & Schuster]]
| pub_date = 2002–2009
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| media_type = Print (hardback and paperback)
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'''''Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space''''',<ref>"[http://djmachalebooks.com/the-author/ The Author]". D. J. MacHale (Official Website).</ref> abbreviated '''''The Pendragon Adventure''''' or simply '''''Pendragon''''', is a series of ten [[young adult fiction|young-adult]] [[science fantasy|science fiction and fantasy]] novels by American author [[D. J. MacHale]], published from 2002 to 2009. The series chronicles the adventures of Bobby Pendragon, an American teenager who discovers that he must travel through time and space to prevent the destruction of the ten "territories": critical times and locations throughout the universe. The series has sold over a million copies.<ref name="White">White, Cl). "[http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/oct04/a-conversation-with-d-j-machale-10041 A Conversation With D.J. MacHale]". ''The Internet Writing Journal''. Writer Write, Inc.</ref>
'''''Pendragon''''' is the name of a series of [[fantasy]] [[novels]] by [[D.J. MacHale]]. They mainly follow the adventures of [[Bobby Pendragon]], but also a continuing sub-plot of Bobby's friends Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde. The first book, ''[[The Merchant of Death]]'', was originally published in [[2002]] by Aladdin Paperbacks. The series currently has seven books out including ''[[The Merchant of Death]]'', ''[[The Lost City of Faar]]'', ''[[The Never War]]'', ''[[The Reality Bug]]'', ''[[Black Water (novel)|Black Water]]'', ''[[The Rivers of Zadaa]]'', and ''[[The Quillan Games]]''. The title for the eighth book is unknown, after D.J. McHale said the title printed in The Quillan Games (''[[Pendragon The Great]]'') no longer fit. The author said the eighth book may be released early in the American summer of 2007, though he wasn't making any promises. The series is planned to last 10 books, each of which switch from a first-person perspective of Bobby's journals to a narrative of Mark and Courtney's lives.
 
Each book deals with the battle over a particular territory, fought by Bobby's side against the forces of Saint Dane, a [[shapeshifting]] demon, who exploits a decisive turning point for the local people of each territory. At this turning point, Saint Dane steps in to guide the territory towards utter chaos, while Bobby and his allies attempt to stop these efforts.
==Series plot==
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The story begins in the first book in the series, ''[[The Merchant of Death]]''. Bobby Pendragon is living a normal life in Stony Brook, Connecticut, where he is the star of Stony Brook Middle School's basketball team. But when he turns fourteen, his uncle, [[#Characters|Press Tilton]], takes him to an abandoned subway station where he and Bobby travel through a portal through space and time called a flume. Bobby soon finds himself in a different [[#territory|territory]], Denduron, which is on the brink of a civil war. There Bobby discovers he was chosen to be a Traveler, a defender of the universe from [[Saint Dane]], an evil villain who wishes to rule the universe. To save it, Bobby must rescue all ten territories from destruction.
So far, Bobby has travelled to Denduron, Cloral, First Earth (Earth in the year 1937), Third Earth (Earth in the year 5010), Veelox, Eelong, Zadaa, and Quillan, each time trying to keep Saint Dane from destroying the territory.
 
The novels use a [[first-person narration|first-person perspective]] through Bobby's handwritten [[epistolary novel|journal entries]], in which he recounts the events of his adventures to his loyal friends back home, Courtney Chetwynde and Mark Dimond, as well as a [[third-person narrative]] to tell the stories of characters other than Bobby—often, Courtney and Mark themselves. Each book of the series repeatedly alternates between these two narrative perspectives.<ref name="White"/>
==Travelers==
 
==Publication history==
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The first five books in the series, ''The Merchant of Death'' (2001), ''The Lost City of Faar'' (2001), ''The Never War'' (2002), ''The Reality Bug'' (2002), and ''Black Water'' (2003) were originally published in paperback by [[Aladdin Paperbacks]]. In 2004, ''Black Water'' made ''[[The New York Times]]''{{'}} weekly nationwide top-ten list in the category "Children's Paperback Books,"<ref>"[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E6DB1530F93AA2575AC0A9629C8B63]." ''[[The New York Times]]''. The New York Times Company. September 19, 2004.</ref> and a month later, for the first time, the series as a whole ranked in the category of "Children's Best Sellers: Series."<ref>"[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E5DF143BF934A25753C1A9629C8B63]." ''[[The New York Times]]''. The New York Times Company. October 2004.</ref> The remaining five books, ''The Rivers of Zadaa'' (2005), ''The Quillan Games'' (2006), ''The Pilgrims of Rayne'' (2007), ''Raven Rise'' (2008), and ''The Soldiers of Halla'' (2009) were all originally published in hardback by [[Simon & Schuster]]. As of 2011, all books have been released in both formats.
The Travelers are a group of people with incredible wit and talent and are usually very unique to their own territory. This group believes in a natural fate-like theory that gives them the motto; ''This is the way it was meant to be.''
It is unknown who chooses whom to become a traveler, and so far it has only been determined that they are born and raised for the purpose of being a Traveler. For example, when Bobby was younger his "uncle" took him on expeditions and otherwise to prepare him for some of the things he would have to do as a Traveler. When a Traveler finds out his destiny, all traces of that person's existence disappears, including their families, except in the memories of those who knew that person. It is unknown as of yet where the families of travelers go, but they are reassured that they will see them again. This is coupled with the fact that none of the travelers are raised by their biological parents, adding to the illusion of nonexistance.
There should be only one Traveler from each territory, and at the time when there are two Travelers, the elder of the two will soon die. The previous Traveler, however, is allowed a certain amount of time to train the new Traveler in ways of judgment and responsibility.
The purpose of the Travelers is to save Halla from Saint Dane, who is also a Traveler. The Travelers have apparently been around for a very long time, but if this were always the case it would make Saint Dane ancient. All the travelers have special abilities. They can influence people's thinking, can recover from injuries that would kill any normal person, and in [[The Rivers of Zadaa]], Bobby uncovers the Travelers' ability to bring people back to life, just by willing them to come back.
 
A [[graphic novel]]ization of ''The Merchant of Death'' was also released around the time of the ninth book. The tenth and final novel, ''The Soldiers of Halla'', was released on May 12, 2009. A prequel trilogy created by MacHale but authored by other writers has also been published, collectively called ''[[Pendragon: Before the War]]''.
In The Quillan Games, Saint Dane claims that the travelers are not physical, corporeal beings, but illusions, and that is how they are able to use their "powers", how Saint Dane and Nevva are able to change form, and how the travelers are able to use the flumes. While Bobby does not fully accept this, it does answer many questions raised by fans of the series.
 
==Plot overview==
See more information on the Travelers in the [[Pendragon series#Characters|list of characters]]
Robert "Bobby" Pendragon is an everyday athletic [[junior high school]] student from (fictional) Stony Brook, Connecticut, located in the greater [[New York metropolitan area]]. Bobby's Uncle Press reveals that he will train Bobby to become one of the "Travelers": [[wormhole]]-journeying young warriors from a variety of different planets and cultures,<ref>Blasignmae, James (2006). "Pendragon Book Six: The Rivers of Zadaa". ''Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy'', 50(2), 161–162.</ref> who are tasked with stopping or reversing the destruction being enacted by the villainous Saint Dane. Saint Dane is a shapeshifting demon whose favorite form is a tall human with icy blue eyes and long grey hair, but who can variously transform into a raven, a cloud of smoke, and a variety of other forms. He plans to destroy "what separates order from chaos"—the very fabric and structure of the universe, known as "Halla"<ref>{{cite book |title=The Merchant of Death |url=https://archive.org/details/merchantofdeathp00djma_0 |url-access=registration |last=MacHale |first=D. J. |author-link=D. J. MacHale |year=2002 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0-7434-3731-4}} p. 284 "Halla is what separates order from chaos"</ref>—so that he can rebuild it according to his own twisted design. Uncle Press, the lead Traveler, introduces Bobby to the "flumes": enchanted tubes used by Travelers to journey among the ten "territories", which are especially eventful locations and time-periods in the universe. Press explains that Bobby is a resident and designated Traveler of the territory known as "Second Earth", which means planet Earth (especially centering on New York City) during the early 2000s (the present moment at the time of the series' publication).
 
Most of the novels in the series are structured around a similar basic conflict: as one of Halla's ten territories reaches a crucial turning point, in which its people must make a critical global decision for their future, Saint Dane arrives, hoping to lead the people towards self-destruction, especially through [[cultural homogenization]], [[social inequality]], [[institutionalized discrimination|discrimination]], and [[totalitarianism]].<ref>Blackman, Harrison (2013). "[http://expedictionary.com/2013/08/01/5-books-better-than-the-hunger-games/ 5 Books Better Than The Hunger Games]". ''Expedictionary''.</ref> Bobby must then travel to each threatened territory to thwart Saint Dane's plans, sending journals back home (to Second Earth) to be received and kept safe by his best friends, Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde, who become sometimes involved with the action and are deemed Bobby's "acolytes": personal helpers and record-keepers along Bobby's journey. There is one Traveler from each territory, and Bobby cooperates with all ten along his journey. Throughout the series, Saint Dane often confronts Bobby personally and asks him to join his side, but Bobby consistently refuses.
==The Acolytes==
 
Bobby soon realizes his central role in the battle for Halla: that he is to replace his uncle as the lead Traveler, pursuing Saint Dane and helping to guide the territories back toward stability with the assistance of the other Travelers, their acolytes, and further allies. The turning points of the ten territories, in order, occur on: the medieval wilds of Denduron; the ocean-wide planet of Cloral; First Earth (the approximate time and ___location of the 1937 [[Hindenburg disaster]]); the virtual-reality wastelands of Veelox; the rainforests of Eelong; the deserts of Zadaa; the corporate monopoly-controlled arenas of Quillan; the semi-civilized island of Ibara (located on the planet Veelox, though 300 years after the "Veelox" territory); Second Earth; and, lastly, Third Earth (New York City in the year 5010).<ref>Hooper, Kat (2015). [http://www.fantasyliterature.com/author/kat-hooper/page/8/ "Posts by Kat Hooper" (page 8)]. ''Fantasy Literature.'' Fantasy Literature's Fantasy Book and Audiobook Reviews.</ref>
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Men and women who help the travelers. The Acolytes use their knowledge of Halla to help the travelers defeat Saint Dane. They supply the Travelers with information and supplies, such as transportation and clothing. They, however, cannot travel between territories as far the original rules state. However, they each receive a ring (pictured here [http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6071/travelerring6xh.jpg]) through which they can receive things from the travelers, and send things to other acolytes. There is one acolyte per territory, but Second Earth, Bobby's territory, has two: Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde, Bobby's best friends (It is assumed Courtney is the only acolyte after Mark left second earth, because he leaves Courtney the ring). When there is a new Acolyte, the old Acolyte does not die; for instance, Tom Dorney, the previous acolyte from Second Earth, remained alive when Mark and Courtney became the acolytes. On Cloral, Vo Spader's acolyte is Wu Yenza, his boss. On Veelox, Aja's acolyte is Evangeline. On Eelong, Kasha's acolyte was her friend Boon. On Zadaa, Loor's acolyte is Saangi, her little sister. On Denduron, Alder's acolyte is the Milago woman whose husband died in a Transfer ceremony.
 
Along his journeys, Bobby also learns martial arts, sometimes even dueling with Saint Dane one-on-one. Bobby also comes to respect the diverse peoples of Halla, who wildly differ in their social structures, technologies, philosophies, traditions, and other cultural aspects. He also has to adapt to each territory's environment to be ready to confront Saint Dane at a moment's notice. Bobby gradually learns the nature of what it really means to be a Traveler, first hinted at when Saint Dane mysteriously begins referring to the Travelers as "illusions". Saint Dane's long-term strategy also eventually surfaces, centering on a mysterious event called "the Convergence", in which the territories' turning points all begin to coincide, potentially causing an escalating chain reaction of chaos throughout Halla.<ref>"[http://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/raven-rise-pendragon-book-nine About the Book: Raven Rise: Pendragon, Book Nine]". ''KidsReads''. The Book Report, Inc. 2016.</ref> Matters worsen when the Traveler from Quillan, named Nevva Winter, treacherously defects to Saint Dane's side. Meanwhile, the Convergence causes some territories to undergo a devastating and unanticipated second turning point.
It is unknown whether Gunny, Patrick, and Remudi have acolytes, or even know what acolytes are, as the series has never mentioned them.
 
By the ninth book, Bobby and his friends have successfully prevented the destruction of five territories, but they have failed in their fight against Saint Dane on Second Earth, Veelox, Ibara, and Quillan. Even worse, by overrunning Second Earth, Saint Dane manages to reverse all previous Traveler victories, allowing him to establish an [[elitist]] and [[genocidal]] [[cult]] called Ravinia. Ravinia openly marches its robot army of humanoid soldiers, "dados", throughout the territories, freely breaking down the boundaries between the territories. In the tenth and final book, Bobby finally learns about the true nature of Travelers: that he and the others are not actually humans at all, but rather, human-shaped guardian spirits created by something called Solara: the accumulated energy of all positive sentient knowledge and creativity. Contrarily, Saint Dane is a spirit arisen from a dark [[antithesis]] of Solara. Reuniting one last time, Bobby and the Travelers confront Saint Dane in a final battle on Third Earth to begin Halla's process toward recovery at last.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://djmachalebooks.com/books/pendragon/ |title=Pendragon|website=djmachalebooks.com|access-date=April 17, 2018}}</ref>
Nevva does not have an acolyte because she has not had enough time to find one and believes she works better alone.
 
==TerritoriesTerminology==
MacHale uses a variety of terms and ideas for the series, which are listed in fuller detail below.
*'''Acolyte''': A person native to some territory who is chosen by that territory's Traveler as his or her own personal aid, including the receiver and keeper of that Traveler's journals.
*'''The Convergence''': The chain-reaction event toward which Saint Dane manipulates Halla in which all the territories reach critical turning points simultaneously, spiraling them all toward total chaos.
*'''Dado''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|æ|d|oʊ}}):<ref name=pron>{{Youtube|title=Pendragon Pronunciation Guide Video|id=rzfaJqbFcT0}}</ref> Any humanoid robot member of the security and police forces of the monopolistic mega-corporation Blok (on Quillan) and which Saint Dane later mass-produces on Third Earth and elsewhere into his own personal armies. The name originates from the acronym D.A.D.O. (Dimond Alpha Digital Organization), a First Earth corporation that produces forge technology.
*'''Flume''': Any of the tunnels that link each one of the territories with the other nine. At the entrance to a flume, a Traveler must speak the name of a territory, causing the flume to writhe to life, turning its rock walls into transparent crystal, emanating a jumble of pleasant musical notes, and lifting and pulling the Traveler gently into the flume towards the spoken destination.
*'''[[Forge (Pendragon)|Forge]]''': A shapeshifting, voice-activated technology patented by D.A.D.O. (though seemingly actually invented in Third Earth and stolen from that territory by Saint Dane) consisting of an object with flexible, elastic skin that can change into various simple geometric forms including a pyramid, a cube, and a sphere. Apparently, it is the main technology inside the robotic bodies of dados.
*'''Gar''': The human race on Eelong, though the gar of Eelong tend to be of smaller stature than the humans of Earth and most are not educated or civilized, largely kept as slaves in klee society.<ref>{{cite book |title=Black Water |last=MacHale |first=D. J. |author-link=D. J. MacHale |year=2004 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=0-689-86911-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/blackwater00mach }}</ref>
*'''Halla''': The [[multiverse]], including every person, thing, time, and territory there ever was. Press Tilton describes it also as "what separates order from chaos."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Merchant of Death |url=https://archive.org/details/merchantofdeathp00djma_0 |url-access=registration |last=MacHale |first=D. J. |author-link=D. J. MacHale |year=2002 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=0-7434-3731-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/merchantofdeathp00djma_0/page/284 284]|quote= Halla is what separates order from chaos.}}</ref> It includes at least seven worlds with human beings; Halla, however, is also physically divided (by Saint Dane's flumes) into ten distinct territories.
*'''The Jakills''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|æ|k|ɪ|l|z}}:<ref name=pron/> a rebellious youth subculture of seventeen critically thinking teenagers on the island territory Ibara, including Loque, Krayven, Twig, and their leader, [[Characters in the Pendragon Adventure#Siry Remudi|Siry Remudi]], who help Bobby Pendragon seek the world beyond their island's oceanic boundaries.
*'''Klee''': the dominant, [[sapience|sapient]] species of Eelong, who have bipedal feline bodies and live in treetop village societies.
*'''[[Pentagram]]''': The symbol of a five-pointed star made by interlocking lines, used by the spirits of Solara to designate the entrance to every flume and later adopted by the Ravinia cult.
*'''Quig''': Any yellow-eyed, supernatural animal created by Saint Dane to guard the flume(s) of any territory where he is present and attack the Travelers and their allies. Local people of the territories do not recognize quigs as being anything more than indigenous animals. The territories each have their own type of quig: Cloral has {{convert|20|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} sharks; Denduron has spike-backed, bear-like beasts; the Earth territories have giant dogs; Eelong has cannibalistic gars (humans); Ibara has swarming bees; Quillan has robotic spiders; and Zadaa has snakes; Veelox's quigs are never revealed.
*'''Ravinia''': A militaristic political movement and religious cult, originating on Second Earth and led by Alexander Naymeer under the manipulation of Saint Dane, embracing the view that the elite and talented members of all territories should create a ruling class that subjugates and ultimately destroys everyone else. Saint Dane uses the cult as the main driving force in his plan to bring Halla into chaos.
*'''Solara''': "The spiritual reflection of the state of Halla."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Soldiers of Halla |last=MacHale |first=D. J. |author-link=D. J. MacHale |year=2009 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4169-1420-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/soldiersofhalla00mach/page/50 50] |quote=The spiritual reflection of the state of Halla. |url=https://archive.org/details/soldiersofhalla00mach/page/50 }}</ref> Solara is the essence of all positive sentient thought and creativity and it looks different to every individual—a spiritual realm or state that is neither a territory itself nor part of any territory. When every person dies, their spiritual weight is added to the accumulation called Solara. As Saint Dane manipulates the people of the territories into making self-destructive decisions, Solara begins to split into a weakening "light" Solara and a strengthening "dark" Solara.
*'''Territory''': Any of Saint Dane's divisions of Halla characterized by some particular world in some particular time-period. There are ten territories (called Cloral, Denduron, Eelong, Ibara, Quillan, Veelox, and Zadaa, and three different time-periods of Earth, known as First Earth, Second Earth, and Third Earth) which exist in the space-time continuum on a total of seven distinct worlds (Cloral, Denduron, Earth, Eelong, Quillan, Veelox, and Zadaa).
*'''Traveler''': Any person indigenous to one of the [[Territories in the Pendragon Series|ten territories]], given certain supernatural abilities and tasked with guarding that territory against Saint Dane, who calls Travelers "illusions". There are arguably two generations of Travelers, the first of which mentor the second. All Travelers, except the klee Traveler from Eelong, take the form of humans. Travelers have occasionally demonstrated the following superpowers: heightened persuasiveness; hearing all speech and reading all writing as their own native language (also known as omnilinguality); remarkable and rapid powers to heal both oneself and others; the apparent ability to read the minds of those around them; the (exceptionally rare) ability to transform into other livings beings.
 
==References==
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A realm of space-time. The territory that Bobby Pendragon comes from is called Second Earth. Most of the territories are similar to Second Earth. For example, most have the same kinds of plants, animals, and people in them. Most territories have a normal sun in the sky, with the exceptions of Denduron and Eelong, and the possible exceptions of Quillan and Ibara. Territories are interconnected by flumes, tunnels through space-time.
 
== External links ==
Territories have no official order; however they are usually listed in the order of the book they appear in: Denduron, Cloral, First Earth, Veelox, Eelong, Zadaa, Quillan...
* [http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/oct04/machale.htm An interview with D. J. MacHale]
 
Traditionally, only Travelers are allowed to use the flumes; however it is revealed in the [[Black Water|fifth book]] that acolytes can use the flumes, but damage them in doing so, and that anyone can use the flume if they go at the same time as a traveler.
 
The ten different territories are:
 
*'''Second Earth''' - The territory where Bobby comes from. Earth in modern times. Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde are Bobby's friends and become his acolytes in the fourth book, ''[[The Reality Bug]]''. This territory undergoes a chaotic change in its technology and history at the end of the Quillan Games, presumably due to Mark's assumed intervention in the past. The quigs of this territory are large dogs.
*'''[[Zadaa]]''' - Loor's home territory. Mostly desert, with two civilized tribes: The Rokador and the Batu. All the other tribes in Zadaa are uncivilized cannibals. Loor comes from the Batu tribe. Loor's acolyte is a girl named Saangi, also from the Batu tribe. Bobby visits Zadaa in the sixth book, ''[[The Rivers of Zadaa]]''. The quigs of this territory are large snakes.
*'''First Earth''' - Earth in the year 1937. A man named Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke is the Traveler from First Earth. (See the list of Characters for more detail). Bobby comes to First Earth in the third book, ''[[The Never War]]''.
*'''Third Earth''' - Earth in the year 5010. Now the Earth is in peace, pollution has been taken care of, and people are colonizing other planets and moons in our solar system. The Traveler from Third Earth is called Patrick.
*'''[[Denduron]]''' - A territory mostly covered with frozen undiscovered continents, but near the equator are three inhabited continents. One of these continents are where two battling tribes live: The Milago and the Bedoowan. The Milago are forced to hunt for glaze, a kind of valuable mineral, and give it to the Bedoowan. The Traveler from Denduron is a Bedoowan knight called Alder. His acolyte is a Milago woman who lost her husband to the Bedoowan in the first book. Bobby and his Uncle Press visit Denduron in the first book, ''[[The Merchant of Death]]''. The quigs of this territory are described by Bobby as being reminiscent of prehistoric bears, with a single yellow spike on their heads.
*'''[[Cloral]]''' - A territory completely covered by water. The inhabitants of Cloral live on huge floating cities called habitats, with the exception of the recently re-discovered Faar. Each city has a job to do. Some cities make all the machinery for Cloral, and some grow all of the food. An energetic man named Vo Spader is the Traveler from Cloral. Spader's acolyte is his boss, Wu Yenza. Bobby and his Uncle Press come to Cloral in the second book, ''[[The Lost City of Faar]]''. The quigs of this territory are sharks.
*'''[[Veelox]]''' - A territory with cities similar to those on Earth, except for Lifelight, a computer program that can plug your body into a computer and make you feel like you are in a fantasy world. Most of the people in Veelox have abandoned their homes and live in their own fantasies. The Traveler from Veelox is a girl named Aja Killian. Her acolyte is her aunt, Evangeline. (See the list of characters for more detail on Aja and Evangeline.) Bobby visits Veelox in the fourth book, ''[[The Reality Bug]]''. The quigs are unknown for this territory. It was the first territory lost to Saint Dane.
*'''[[Eelong]]''' - Probably the territory most unlike Earth. Eelong is covered in tropical jungle. The most intelligent creatures there are not human. They are beings called klees. They look like cats, but stand on two legs and have no tail. Humans there are called gars and are kept as pets, slaves, or used for entertainment purposes by the Klees. The traveler from Eelong was Kasha. Bobby visited Eelong in the fifth book, ''[[Black Water (novel)|Black Water]]''. The quigs from Eelong are savage gars.
*'''[[Quillan (Pendragon series)|Quillan]]''' - Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games -- games in which game masters Veego and LaBerge use the people of Quillan as pawns in competitions that range from physical battles to impossible obstacle courses to computer-driven tests of agility. To triumph in the games is to live the life of a king. To lose is to die. It was the second territory lost to Saint Dane. The quigs from Quillan are robots that look like spiders.
*'''[[Ibara (Pendragon series)|Ibara]]''' - Ibara was introduced in ''[[The Guide to the Territories of Halla]]'' by name only. In ''[[The Quillan Games]]'', the Traveler from Ibara, Remudi, makes a brief appearance. He also dies shortly into ''The Quillan Games''. Bobby has not visisted Ibara yet.
 
The order of the territories for the final 3 books is under much speculation, but as [[The Quillian Games]] tells at the end, Bobby and Courtney are going to Third Earth while Saint Dane is going to Ibara. For this reason, many believe Second Earth will be the final battlefield.
 
==Characters==
===Main characters===
 
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*'''[[Bobby Pendragon|Robert "Bobby" Pendragon]]''' - At the start of the series, Bobby is a normal fourteen-year-old boy. He was the best basketball player in his school, but right before the state semi-finals, while he was kissing Courtney Chetwynde, Uncle Press took him to Denduron. He has had a crush on Courtney since the elementary school and she on him. His best friend is Mark Dimond. His journey led him through many dangerous missions. In the fourth book, he found out that he was known as the 'lead Traveler' to the other Travelers. Bobby's acolytes are [[Mark Dimond]] and [[Courtney Chetwynde]].
*'''[[Saint Dane]]''' - Saint Dane is an evil Traveler that wants to destroy Halla, so he can remake it how he wants it. He first met Bobby in the subway station in the Bronx. Saint Dane is an evil demon who can shape shift and is trying to take over Halla and the ten territories. All he needs is one, he says, and the other Territories will be like dominoes, falling after the first. He usually changes his name and appearance in order to pass unnoticed by the Travelers. His origins are unknown.
*'''Press Tilton''' - Press Tilton, or "Uncle Press," (pictured here [http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/984/tilton3os.jpg], taken from DJ MacHale's "The Guide to the Territories of Halla") is Robert "Bobby" Pendragon's uncle, his mother's brother. In "The Merchant of Death", he told Bobby he was a Traveler and took him on an adventure. Tilton was a very respected Traveler. On Denduron, the Bedoowan imprisoned him. Tilton died on Cloral (his favorite territory) of a gunshot sent through the flume from First Earth. He is buried in Cloral.
*'''Mark Dimond''' - Mark is Bobby’s closest friend since kindergarten. He is not very popular and used to get bullied by a kid named Andy Mitchell until the sixth book. His room is very messy, and he likes to read books. He once read that eating carrots makes your eyesight better, so he ate them for four months, but all they did was turn his teeth yellow. When he needs privacy, he goes to the boys’ washroom on the third floor, because no one ever goes there. Osa gave him a ring, so he’ll be able to receive Bobby’s journals. He asked Courtney to read it with him, because he knew that she liked Bobby too. Mark is one of Bobby's acolytes. Mark's parents both died, and it is suspected that, in his depression, he joined Saint Dane.
*'''Courtney Chetwynde''' - Courtney is the strongest girl in her school, and she plays for the boys’ volleyball team, because she always beats the girls easily. She is described as very attractive and has had a crush on Bobby since 4th grade. She told him about that night before Uncle Press took him to Denduron. She tells Mark what to do, because he’s really scared. Like Mark, she is Bobby's acolyte.
*'''Andy Mitchell''' - Andy is a bully from the start of the books and an all around jerk. He is (for quite some time) Mark's bully until he gets into reading Bobby's journals. Andy forces Mark to let him read the rest of Bobby's journals after he one day comes across a page of Bobby's journal that Mark had misplaced. Things start to get weirder when Andy joins Sci-Clops (the science club which Mark is in) and makes tremendous improvement. This event leads us to think that Andy is not who he really is. Towards the end of [[The Rivers of Zadaa]], Andy takes an odd turn and ends up helping Mark in order to rescue Courtney. In the very end of the book it ends with a cliffhanger in which Andy is revealed to supposedly be Saint Dane. It was confirmed that Andy is Saint Dane in ''[[The Quillan Games]]''.
 
===Travelers===
 
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Since the publication of the [[The Quillan Games|seventh Pendragon book]], we now know the names of at least one Traveler from all [[#Territories|ten territories]]. This is a list of them (including Bobby Pendragon):
 
*[[The Merchant of Death|Denduron]]: '''Alder''' - A Bedoowan knight. He is very tall and a trained knight. He is quite clumsy but has large, caring eyes that remind Bobby of a puppy's.
*[[The Lost City of Faar|Cloral]]: '''Vo Spader''' - Lives on the habitat of Grallion and works as an Aquaneer. He accompanies Bobby on the mission to First Earth and almost ruins the mission because he was blinded by the hate he has for Saint Dane. Saint Dane had killed his father. He also was the cause, by accident, of Bobby's Uncle Press's death. Spader is temporarily trapped in the territory of Eelong because the flume there collapsed.His acolyte is Wu Yenza, his boss and chief Aquaneer.
*[[The Never War|First Earth]]: '''Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke'''- An old African American man. Bobby first meets Gunny when he first visited First Earth in ''[[The Never War]]''. Gunny has also helped Bobby on Eelong and is currently stranded there with Spader since the flume collapsed in the [[Black Water (novel)|fifth book]].
*[[The Reality Bug|Veelox]]: '''Aja Killian''' - (Pictured here [http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/821/ajak8fs.jpg], taken from DJ MacHale's "The Guide to the Territories of Halla") The lead phader of Lifelight. She lives in a gigantic mansion outside of Lifelight which is owned by Dr. Zetlin. Aja helps Bobby to take on Saint Dane. It is mainly her fault that Veelox was Saint Dane's win because of her invention of the "Reality Bug." Nothing is known from her at the time other than that she stayed on Veelox to fix what had been wronged.
*[[Black Water (novel)|Eelong]]: '''Kasha''' - Kasha is a klee (a jungle cat who lives and acts like a human), the Traveler of Eelong. Her and her acolyte, Boon, find and save Black Water, a civilization that klees usually dismiss as a gar (human) myth. At the end of Black Water, she was killed by falling rocks as a result of the flume on Eelong crumbling, because Mark and Courtney used the flume. '''Boon''' is the acolyte of Eelong after Bobby finds out that Yorn, the original acolyte of Eelong, was Saint Dane posing as Yorn. '''Seegen''' is Kasha's father, another klee from Eelong. He was the traveler from Eelong before he passed it down to Kasha.
*[[Zadaa]]: '''[[Loor]]''' - [[Loor]] is Bobby’s partner in their adventures in Denduron. She’s a very strong warrior, and doesn’t like people that correct her. Osa is her mother. She always saves Bobby’s life because her mother told her to because he is the lead Traveler. She likes Bobby, and is "there when a warrior is needed." In the middle of the sixth book, Bobby tells Mark Dimond that he has feelings for Loor, but shows that they cannot be together because they are Travelers and it would obstruct their mission. In a desert camp in book six, Alder, Saangi, and Loor help train Bobby to fight so he can better defend himself against Saint Dane after almost being killed by him earlier in the same book. Loor was killed briefly by Saint Dane, but was brought back to life, either by Bobby or because their powers mixed. Another theory is that it wasn't supposed to be Loor's time to die.
*[[The Quillan Games|Quillan]]: '''[[Nevva Winter]]''' - She is the Traveler from Quillan. She seemed to be helping Bobby save Quillan, but she was really helping Saint Dane. She is convinced that Saint Dane will save existence. At the end of the book she jumps out of a window and is unharmed, which suggests that she has learned how to use Saint Dane's powers. She has decided to become the Ibara traveler and is headed there since it no longer has a Traveler, and it is no longer safe for her to stay in Quillan. '''Elli Winter''' is her mother and is the new traveller from Quillan since Nevva left with Saint Dane. She was supposed to be the first traveler on Quillan but she could not handle it so Nevva took over.
*Ibara: '''[[Remudi]]''' - Not much is known about Remudi besides his name, appearance (described in the [[The Quillan Games|seventh book]]), and that he is the Traveler from Ibara. He was killed in a game on Quillan called "Tato," by Saint Dane disguised as "Challenger Green." In reality, Bobby was meant to have watched him die to lead him to compete; it was a plot by Saint Dane and his accomplice Nevva Winter.
*Third Earth: '''[[Patrick]]''' - Appeared in the 3rd Pendragon Adventure. Traveler from Third Earth. Helped "Gunny" and Bobby Pendragon see what would happen to the Earth Territories.
*Second Earth: '''[[Bobby Pendragon|Robert "Bobby" Pendragon]]''' - In all books. Lead Traveler from Second Earth.
*'''[[Saint Dane]]''' is considered a traveler, although it is unknown which territory he is from.
 
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==Books in the series==
#''[[The Merchant of Death]]''
#*Release Date: [[September 1]], [[2002]], Paperback
#''[[The Lost City of Faar]]''
#*Release Date: [[January 1]], [[2003]], Paperback
#''[[The Never War]]''
#*Release Date: [[May 1]], [[2003]], Paperback
#''[[The Reality Bug]]''
#*Release Date: [[September 1]], [[2003]], Paperback
#''[[Black Water (novel)|Black Water]]''
#*Release Date: [[August 3]], [[2004]], Paperback
#''[[The Rivers of Zadaa]]''
#*Release Date: [[June 28]], [[2005]], Hardcover
#*Release Date: [[April 11]], [[2006]], Paperback
#''[[The Quillan Games]]''
#*Release Date: [[May 16]], [[2006]], Hardcover
#*Release Date: [[November 16]] [[2006]], UK
On the official Pendragon website, D.J.McHale announced the eighth book would not be called ''[[Pendragon The Great]]'', saying this title no longer fits anymore. He said the real title will be announced on the Pendragon website forum in early October.
 
There is also ''[[The Guide to the Territories of Halla]]'' (2005) by Victor Lee, D.J. MacHale, and Peter Ferguson.
 
== Trivia ==
 
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*The [[:1st|The Merchant of Death]], [[:5th|Black Water]], and [[:6th|The Rivers of Zadaa]] books have class/racial issues as a major theme
*Many readers have drawn strong links drawn between the villain of the seventh book, the company called Blok, and Wal-Mart.
*All of the territories' turning points have something to do with a lot of people dying or a lot of destruction.
**The first book had an impending use of Tak to destroy all the other tribes on Denduron
**The second book had an impending plague and following war that will wipe out Cloral
**The third book had the impending doom of Nazi Germany using the Atomic Bomb first in 1944
**The fourth book had the impending threat of the Reality Bug killing everyone in Lifelight.
**The fifth book had the impending genocide of all the Gars, and the slaughter of all the Klees by the Tangs
**The sixth book had the impending genocide of the Batu, and the consequential follow-up destruction of the Rokador by the Cannibal tribes of Zadaa
**The seventh book had the impending destruction of Mr. Pop and the history of Quillan; therefore destroying the hope of the Revival and allowing Blok to continue to control the people of Quillan.
*Gunny is the only ORIGINAL Traveler of the current generation older than 30 (Patrick is in his 20's)
*Saint Dane always has at least two disguises per book, with the possible exception of the fourth. One of his guises is always immediately known (either by being told by him, being told by another character), while the second or third guise is a hidden guise, and the reader only finds out it is Saint Dane a while later.
*Saint Dane did not permanently transform after winning Quillan like he did with Veelox, though some assume he will transform to be more demon-like in Book 8.
*Nevva is the first traveler to turn evil.
*There are several mistakes in Black Water where Yorn is referred to as Boon.
*Books one through five are planned to be reprinted in hardback form, as confirmed by MacHale on his official website. The reprints are scheduled to hit shelves before Christmas.
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==External links==
*[http://www.thependragonadventure.com Official Website]
*[http://www.thependragonadventure.com/forum/ Official Forums]
*[http://s7.invisionfree.com/Welcome_to_Halla/ Pendragon Unoffical Forums]
*[http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/oct04/machale.htm An interview with D.J. MacHale]
 
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