Hello people's. Today I'm writing about the fourth and final David Eddings series. Here it goes.

The fourth series is called The Dreamers. It's the last fantasy series Eddings ever wrote because shortly thereafter he died. The story takes place on 4 separate continents separated by seas. The continents are The Land of Maag, The Trogite Empire, The Land of the Malavi, and The Land of Dhrall. Although it is 4 separate continents instead of the usual 2 from Eddings' other series the general scope is still smaller than that of the other books.

The main conflict lies in The Land of Dhrall. In the center of The Land of Dhrall is a huge wasteland that's almost completely surrounded on all sides by mountains. In the wasteland lives a monstrous intelligent insect create called The Vlagh. The Vlagh steals useful evolutionary traits from other species and it is constantly hatching millions of part reptile part insect part beast creatures. The Vlagh's only goal is to expand it's domain outside of The Wasteland until eventually it covers the whole world.

The Land of Dhrall is split into 4 different domains ruled by 4 different elder gods, Veltan, Aracia, Zelana, and Dahlaine and these gods are not allowed to directly harm any life including the creatures threatening their domains. To protect their people they wake up the sleeping younger gods before their thousand year cycle of sleep is over as children with no memory of who they are. These children who do not know they are gods can dream up catastrophic natural disasters that can hurt the creatures. The gods also travel to the other continents and recruit pirates from The Land of Maag, Calvary from The Land of the Malavi, infantry from The Trogite Empire, and warrior-women from The Isle of Akalla. The series includes this huge cast of morals and Gods fighting to stay united and keep the scourge of The Vlagh trapped forever in the wasteland.

I have to admit that so far The Dreamers is the worst series Eddings has written. The characters are not very emotional and there is very little internal conflict and drama between them. Much of the books are backstory with little action or the same scene repeatedly told from different perspectives. It's still an essential read for an Eddings fan but not nearly as gripping as all of his other series. Bye.


- By Ashton