PRAISE FOR THE BROTHERBAND SERIES ‘It’s action to the max!’ Mania ‘An addictive and satisfying read’ Weekend Australian ‘Above all a rattling good story’ Magpies ‘Swashbuckling and adventurous’ ABC Radio CONTENTS Cover About the Book Title A Few Sailing Terms Explained Part One: The Hunt Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4. Get this from a library! Brotherband chronicles. Book 3, The hunters. John Flanagan; Amazon.com (Firm) - AFrom the author of the global phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice! Here you will find list of Brotherband The Invaders Read online, free ebooks online for read and download. View and read Brotherband The Invaders Read Online pdf ebook.
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Brotherband is a series of fantasy novels written by Australian author John Flanagan. The first book, The Outcasts was released in Australia and the United States on 1 November 2011 and in New Zealand on 4 November 2011. The series is a spin-off from Flanagan's other highly popular series, Ranger's Apprentice, but it focuses on new Skandian characters. It was published by Penguin in the US and Random House in Australia and New Zealand.
Plot[edit]The Outcasts[edit]
12 years before the start of the novel, Mikkel, a trusted member of Erak's crew and Hal's father, dies on a raiding trip. Before his death he had his best friend, Thorn, promise that he would help Hal and Karina, Mikkel's wife and child. Thorn promises but loses most of his arm. on the voyage back. Once in Skandia he becomes a drunk, however, Hal's mother Karina reminds Thorn of his promise to help Hal and employs him in her inn.
12 years after his father died, Hal Mikkelson has become a boy who builds whatever he thinks of with the help of his best friend, Stig. At the same time he works with Anders, the local shipbuilder. During this time Hal builds a ship which he names the Heron after the unique sail design he employed on the ship to sail into the wind. After sailing the Heron, Hal beaches the ship and gets ready for Brotherband training. During Brotherband training, boys who are 16 in Skandia are taught the basics of fighting and ship navigation. For each brotherband a leader must be chosen – this year there are a total of 28 boys divided into 3 brotherbands: The Sharks, The Wolves, and The Herons. With Hal finding himself the unwilling leader of the Herons, made up of outcasts, he must step up to the challenge. Every Brotherband must participate in team and individual activities to earn points at the end of the Brotherband training the points are totaled up.
While Brotherband training continues, a Skandian trading fleet is attacked and the leader of the pirates, Zavac, demands to know about the secret treasure of Skandia. The leader of the trading fleet vows not to tell until he sees that one of the pirates had grabbed his nephew. Knowing that his nephew shouldn’t die for his mistakes the head of the trading fleet begins to tell about the treasure, the Andomal, knowing that it is well guarded. As he talks he remembers that one night every year it is not so well protected. The story again takes a turn towards the Herons where they have no chances of winning against the sharks and wolves. With competitions requiring more people, Herons usually found their way to success by using the boys' special skills.
But on one challenge when the bands had to show their navigation skills, the wolves got their ship damaged and were disqualified because they didn't have the ship required to complete the last challenge at sea. Luckily Herons jumped from third to second position, by the disqualifying of the wolves.
With two more challenges remaining, the Herons had to win and tie a challenge with the Sharks, to win brotherband training. Showing good tactics and strategy, the Herons tied the night guard challenge. And because of Hal being a splendid helmsmen, the Herons won the brotherband training by beating Sharks in the last sea challenge.
On winning the brotherband training they are honored with new and good weapons as well as Skandian helmets. Moreover, they also had to guard the Andomal for one night. But on this night Zavac stole the Andomal when the Herons were sleeping while guarding it.
Erak, the Oberjarl take away their weapons and helmets, along with Heron, the ship, and their victory, too. Knowing that they would be hated for the rest of their lives they leave Skandia on the Heron in pursuit of the Andomal.
The Invaders[edit]
Hal and his crew are chasing Zavac. After surviving a massive storm, they set out to continue their search for the pirates. They then camp at shelter bay for a few weeks, where they repair their ship and add the Mangler and the hull fin. Thorn also gives them battle drills. Afterward, they go to a small village to stock up on supplies. Meanwhile, Zavac and his crew invade Limmat, a small town with a high grade emerald mine, after one of Zavac's victims give up the town's secrets. Even though it is fortified, Zavac uses a captured trading vessel to get the boom opened and sails through.
While Hal is going back to Shelter Bay, he sees Wolfwind and sails south for a day. While heading back they find Lydia, a girl from Limmat who tells them of the pirate attack. Hal thinks it may be Zavac so he continues back to Shelter Bay. Wolfwind ambushes them but ends up helping them. The next day, they start sailing to Limmat, and when they arrive, they see Zavac's ship. They therefore hide in the marshes where they find the town's people who had escaped the pirate attack. Hal forms a plan with the locals and when they attack it is a total success. After the attack Zavac slips away and cripples Wolfwind, but the ship survives.
The Hunters[edit]
Hal and the crew start off by sailing to the river Dan in search of Zavac with the grudging assistance of Rikard, a captured man in the crew of a ship that helped Zavac attack and capture Limmat. As they near the mouth Ingvar gets a fever from his wound. The crew land on shore to cure him. While on shore Rikard escapes but is quickly tracked and captured by Thorn and Lydia. While this is happening, Ingvar is cured with willow tree bark and when Lydia and Thorn return, they are quickly sailing again. While sailing down the River, they stop at Krall. They find evidence of Zavac, but are accused of murdering Rikard. They are cleared and then are captured by the Gatmeister at Bayrath.
They are imprisoned but Lydia frees them. They then sail down Wildwater Rift and meet up with the SeaHawk. Her captain tells the Herons to stay behind him and the traders and they agree but are attacked by pirates further down river and the Herons save him and the traders. They are rewarded and have a feast at Drogha. Here, Hal finds out about Raguza (where Zavac is hiding) and its rules and regulations. Hal then poses as a pirate and gains entry in to Raguza. The Korpaljo asks what they are up to and they accuse Zavac of cheating them of emeralds. Zavac is called and an argument starts but the Korpaljo breaks it and takes half of Zavac's emeralds. Zavac then arranges for them to be killed but they fight Zavac's men off. The following day Zavac is expelled from Raguza. However, Hal challenges Zavac to a ship battle. The Herons win, retrieving the Andomal in the process, and return to Hallasholm.
Slaves of Socorro[edit]
Hal and the Herons have returned home to Skandia after defeating the pirate captain Zavac and reclaiming Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal. Now Erak believes it is time for them to once again prove their worth. The crew of the Heron is asked to travel to Araluen and be the Skandians that serve in the country for the next year. Before they can arrive though, an old face returns. Tursgud, leader of the Shark Brotherband and Hal's constant opponent, has gained his own ship, and with his crew he's turned from a bullying youth into a pirate and slave trader. When Tursgud surfaces in Araluen and takes 12 citizens to turn into slaves, the Herons dispatch and pursue him with the help of one of Araluen's finest Rangers, Gilan, who also appears as an important character in Flanagan's other series, 'Ranger's Apprentice.'
Scorpion Mountain[edit]
Hal, his Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan have freed the twelve Araluens sold into slavery. After reaching the Royal Palace, the group is given a mission none of them expect. Princess Cassandra has recently survived an attempt on her life. Now whispers of a second attempt have reached the kingdom, and the deadly sect known as the Scorpion Cult is believed to be the culprit. An assassin who tries to take Cassandra's life gives up vital information on the cult during interrogation. The cult worships the goddess Imrika, and whenever anybody pays them, they make a compact called the tolfah, to kill the person the customer wants.
The crew of the Heron leaves to find the man who paid for the tolfah, Iqbal, brother of the previous Tualaghi chief. They bring along the Ranger Gilan to help negotiate with the cult and ensure Cassandra's safety. While sailing they meet an old friend of Gilan's, the wakir Selethen. He tells the crew that Iqbal has taken over a city called Tabork along with a Hellenese man Philip Bloodyhand. Using a surprise takeover of an attack vessel of Phillip's, the Herons takeover the city after a bloody fight. They mortally wound Iqbal but find out the tolfah cannot be removed without the death of the Shurmel, the leader of the Scorpion cult. Ulf gets injured and has to stay in the port as the crew moves on to confront the cult.
They sail to the old Toscan colony of Ephesa so Hal, Stig and Gilan can go inland to Scorpion Mountain, the headquarters of the cult. There they go inland and find the remnants of an old Roman-style city. Hal notices the constant wind and makes a land-sailer to travel across the desert without a horse. He and Stig take Gilan inland to go and see the Shurmel to remove the tolfah. The remaining crew stays to defend against the Ishti, a group of fighters owned by the Scorpion cult. At the mountain the trio is let in with the Scorpions believing that they have come to buy a tolfah. Gilan is upfront and tries to get it removed. The Shurmel is offended and challenges Gilan to a sword fight where he is defeated and killed. The trio moves to go back and meets Umar, a leader of the Bedullins who helped to free Erak in Erak's Ransom. He wants to defeat the Scorpion cults and helps defeat the Ishti who were attacking the remaining Heron crew. The Heron crew leave after the battle to Araluen where they are relieved from duty to the kingdom. They sail back to Hallasholm where they meet a feast and are welcomed back into their country.
The Ghostfaces[edit]Read Brotherband Chronicles online, free
When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they’re blown far off course and wash up on the shores of a land so far west that Hal can’t recognize it from any of his maps. Eerily, the locals are nowhere in sight, yet the Herons have a creeping feeling they are being watched.
Suddenly the silence is broken when a massive, marauding bear appears, advancing on two children. The crew springs into action and rescues the children from the bear’s clutches, which earns them the gratitude and friendship of the local Mawagansett tribe, who finally reveal themselves. But the peace is short-lived. The Ghostfaces, a ruthless, warlike tribe who shave their heads and paint their faces white, are on the warpath once more. It’s been eight years since they raided the Mawagansett village, but they’re coming back to pillage and reap destruction. As the enemy approaches, the Herons gear up to help their new friends repel an invasion.
The Caldera[edit]
Stig, Ulf and Wulf compete in the annual Maktig contest to determine the supreme warrior in all of Skandia when an unexpected-and unwelcome-visitor at Stig's home changes plans. Olaf, Stig's father who had run away with his own shipmates' plunder some years past and thus made himself a widely hated man in Hallasholm, has a request for the Heron crew. He had become the palace guard commander of the city of Byzantos, but the Empress' son had been kidnapped by a fierce pirate named Myrgos and he needed to return the boy for fear of his life. Hal agrees to help him, and they set sail for Byzantos.
After sailing through Krall and Bayrath, the Heron crew arrives in Byzantos, but Olaf is arrested-as the Empress had posted a reward for his capture. Once Wulf breaks him and Ulf out of jail, they continue to Cypra, where they find information on the whereabouts of Myrgos' base. It is placed on the side of a caldera: an extinct volcano that had formed a large lagoon when it last erupted. After evading Myrgos' ship in a squall, they make it to the caldera. Hal, Lydia and Olaf successfully extract the Empress' son out of the fortress, but Myrgos intercepts the Heron before the crew can make a clean getaway. However, the volcano, which had been rumbling ominously for some time, finally erupts, triggering a tidal wave that sinks Myrgos' ship but propels the Heron to safety, thanks to Hal's excellent helmsman skills. The crew returns to Byzantos, where Olaf is handsomely rewarded for returning the Empress' son to safety. Stig secretly speaks with his father, but when Olaf refuses to show regret for his past actions, Stig blackmails him into giving up most of his reward as recompense for all the shame that he and his mother had suffered over the years due to his actions, and the Herons return home.
The Royal Ranger Crossover[edit]The Red Fox Clan[edit]
The Heron's crew are sent to Araluen as Skandian ambassadors in Book 2 of the Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger series. It is part of the treaty renewal between Skandia and Araluen. Hal, Stig, and Thorn join Cassandra and Maddie on a hunt. They are present to request more archers for the upcoming year as Oberjarl Erak believes they are once again about to be invaded. They setsoff to help a stranded wolfship.
Duel At Araluen[edit]
In this book, Maddie seeks the assistance of the Heron's crew to free her father and Gilan from the hill fort in the north in Book 3 of Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger. Hal invented the Telescope with Maddie at the end of the book.
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