He now knows liveships are created from the cocoons of dead dragons. On Vivacia, Wintrow recovers from his contact with the serpent She Who Remembers. Reyn agrees to help Tintaglia on the condition that she helps him find Malta. Reyn and Selden are changed by their connection to the dragon, becoming like the ancient Elderlings. She defeats the Chalcedean warships and proposes an alliance with the Bingtowners.

Tintaglia is determined to rescue her kind from extinction, but she finds the landscape changed and must appeal to the humans for help. Believing Malta dead, the Vestrits and some Rain Wilders return to Bingtown, where they help negotiate a united Bingtown. Malta ensures their survivals by influencing the Satrap's behavior. Malta is stranded in a boat with the Satrap floating down the Rain Wild River. In the Rain Wilds, Tintaglia, the dragon freed by Reyn and Selden, saves them from the ruins of the underground city.

With the help of Rache, a slave, Ronica seeks to unite the Old Traders, New Traders, Three Ships folk, and the ex-slave Tattooed to form a new, independent order in Bingtown. She clashes with Serilla, the companion to the Satrap who has assumed his authority, seeking to protect herself. Ronica Vestrit comes to accept that Bingtown must turn away from its traditions in order to survive.

Factions in Bingtown struggle against each other even as they hold off the invading Chalcedeans. Much of Bingtown has been destroyed after the night of the Satrap's disappearance. A masterful achievement.Ship of Destiny is a book by American writer Robin Hobb, the third and last in her Liveship Traders Trilogy. A splendid conclusion to one of the finest fantasy sagas to bridge the millennium. It is a truth so shattering, it may destroy the Vivacia and all who love her, including Althea’s nephew, whose life already hangs in the balance.

For her beloved Vivacia will face the most terrible confrontation of all as the secret of the liveships is revealed. Meanwhile, Althea Vestrit, unaware of what has befallen Bingtown and her family, continues her perilous quest to track down and recover her liveship, the Vivacia, from the ruthless pirate Kennit.īold though it is, Althea’s scheme may be in vain. “Probably the best fantasy trilogy of the past decade and a prospective fantasy classic.”- Booklist (starred review)Īs Bingtown slides toward disaster, clan matriarch Ronica Vestrit, branded a traitor, searches for a way to bring the city’s inhabitants together against a momentous threat. The final novel in Robin Hobb’s beloved Liveship Traders Trilogy

Ship of destiny