Kry Rising (forthcoming tentatively titled).The series is intended to consist of five books: The series takes place on the Abarat, a fictional archipelago consisting of twenty-five islands, one for each hour of the day (and one extra). The series is intended to contain five books, three of which have been published from 2002 to 2011. The Books of Abarat are a series of young adult fantasy novels written and illustrated by English writer and visual artist Clive Barker. ( August 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. He also suggested that he is able to interrogate dead bodies if he has to.This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. With these he is said to be able to relive his nightmares when they run against his skin. Somehow he has found a way to harness his nightmares in a semi-corporeal form as long, snaky forms of lightning. He can use the powdered bones of a mummified body to create a giant moth, and also see through the eyes of it. The Carrion family's past, present, and future are closely tied to whether the Abarat will survive and it is an ugly affair.Ĭarrion is a very gifted sorcerer, able to conjure a great many things. Later, he makes his way to Mater Motley's Stormwalker deathship, where Candy brings a mysterious stranger very closely connected to Carrion's sordid family history to meet again for the first time in decades. When she refuses, he tells her of the coming war between Night and Day and what he and his grandmother together had planned for the Abarat in the form of the Sacbrood. Carrion was grief-stricken and intensely guilty after the death of Princess Boa, and fell even deeper into self-loathing.Īfter returning from the Hereafter and healing himself, he finds Candy to warn her to return home. It is said, and only suggested by others previously that Carrion sent a dragon to kill the Princess on her wedding day to Finnegan Hob, enraged by her refusal of him but willingness to marry a "half-breed" of Night and Day. In Abarat: Days of Magic: Nights of War Ĭarrion finally meets Candy for the first time, though intitally in disguise, in the Dead Man's House on the island of Efreet. He was very scarred emotionally from the aftermath. Although she treated him with kindness and respect, Princess Boa did not love Carrion and rejected his offer of marriage. When seeing her image for the first time Carrion was drawn to Candy without realizing why, and orders Shape to capture her and bring her into his presence.In a later chapter it is revealed that Carrion was deeply in love with Princess Boa. After Shape searches through the images, they find Candy in the Yebba Dim Day. His lieutenant Otto Houlihan escorts a man from Commexo City to Gorgossium to review surveillance footage from all across the Abarat. Though enraged at Shape, he is amused at the prospect of a meeting the girl. Loathing anything verging on sentiment, Mater Motley sewed up Christopher's mouth once when he uttered the word 'love'.Ĭhirstopher Carrion makes his first appearence in Abarat during a meeting where Mendelson Shape tells him a girl from the Hereafter now has the Key. Mater Motley raised Carrion strictly and brought him up to share her belief in the goal of Absolute Midnight, a state where all the islands of the Abarat would eternally be plunged into darkness. Carrion was raised by his grandmother, Mater Motley, after his mother and siblings were killed in a raging fire. He enjoys manipulating people to bring out their inner darkness, such as telling a pair of brothers that the other was plotting against them and then watching as they try to kill one another.Ĭarrion is the Lord of Midnight on the Island of Gorgossium. The fact that he takes joy in this is a testament to his morbid personality. Carrion is also very quick to anger. His lips have scar marks from when his Grandmother sewed his lips shut for saying the word "love." Around his head is a translucent collar filled with a light blue liquid. From the back of his skull are tubes that let his nightmares crawl out from his mind and take on a semi-corporeal form, somewhat like a snake made out of smoke and lightning. It's suggested that when they rub against his skin he can relive the nightmares he had. 4 In Abarat: Days of Magic: Nights of WarĬhristopher Carrion has a ghastly appearance, with rotted skin like that of a corpse (or carrion).
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