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conversations.value: Blood of Tyrants: William Laurence awakens on the shores of Japan.\nHe finds himself in great confusion: afflicted with retrograde amnesia, he remembers nothing of how he came to know Chinese nor how he arrived on these shores.\nHe is brought before the local magistrate, Kaneko Hiromasa, and kept in genteel imprisonment for straying outside Nagasaki, the sole port currently open to European traders.\nTemeraire, meanwhile, works with the other dragons of his formation to put to rights the Potentate, their dragon transport, which has run aground on a reef during a storm.\nHaving made the ship seaworthy again, they set sail for Nagasaki, where diplomat Arthur Hammond wishes to make some overtures and to locate Laurence.\nThey receive assistance in this matter from a friendly American dragon, John Wampanoag, a merchant captain attempting to expand his business into Japan.\nHowever, the only word is that Laurence has escaped: as Kaneko broke the law in giving shelter to a foreigner, his young retainer, Junichiro, absconded with Laurence to protect his master\'s honor.\nTemeraire feels additionally slowed by concern for Iskierka, who, after their mating in the previous novel, has produced an egg which must be cared for.\nThrough a series of misadventures involving timber for Potentate\'s repairs, ongoing dragon surveillance and a lot of Western posturing, Laurence and Temeraire eventually reunite, but Temeraire is dismayed to learn that Laurence has no memory of him, and Laurence dismayed to learn that, in the eight years lost from his memory, he became a member of the Aerial Corps.\nThough the two quickly renew their friendship, the other captains remain stilted in Laurence\'s company, talking around subjects which would potentially cause him discomfort.\nHowever, Laurence applies himself willingly to the diplomatic mission at hand: he, an honorary son of the Jiaqing Emperor, is to visit Peking in hopes of forming an alliance between China and Great Britain.\nNo sooner has he arrived than he is swept up in local politics; conservatives are attempting to assassinate the heir to the throne, Prince Mianning (the future Daoguang Emperor), using Western decoys as their catspaws.\nTemeraire is also concerned to learn that Lung Tien Chuan, his twin brother and one of only eight Celestials alive, has died of poisoning.\nThis assassination has attacked Mianning\'s legitimacy, as an Emperor must have a Celestial companion and there are now none to spare; to this end, Temeraire consents to couple with Lung Qin Mei, an Imperial he had grown fond of during his last sojourn in China, to attempt to breed a new one.\nChinese General Fela reports that the White Lotus Rebellion remains active; the Jiaqing Emperor assigns Laurence and Temeraire as royal liaisons to a Chinese army being sent south to pacify the situation.\nUnder the overall command of General Chu, an experienced dragon who helped put down the original rebellion in 1804, the joint British-Chinese force moves out, allowing the British a chance to see the Chinese military at work.\nThey unmask the "rebellion" as a front for British opium-smuggling, despite Laurence\'s well-meaning but uninformed protests to the contrary.\nAdditionally, matters between Temeraire and Laurence deteriorate when Temeraire confesses the great treason he and Laurence committed in Empire of Ivory.\nLaurence feels torn between the nobility of their actions and the hostility of their reception, while Temeraire berates himself for having reminded Laurence of something he clearly wished to forget.\nTemeraire flees the scene, upset, and so happens upon Arkady, one of the Turkish ferals, imprisoned; he is then set upon by dragons of the Chinese army.\nAfter fighting them off, he and Laurence reconcile, and realize that the entire rebellion is a "false-flag operation" designed by Chinese conservatives, led by General Fela, to discredit the British.\nLaurence is more concerned with the news that Arkady was ferrying Tenzing Tharkay as a courier, and with what news Tharkay might have; with General Chu\'s help, they stage a raid on the last remaining holdout of the rebellious forces, at Blue Crane mountain, and there discover Tharkay imprisoned.\nTharkay\'s dispatches indeed prove dire: Napoleon\'s invasion of Russia is due to launch in but one month.\nHowever, Tharkay\'s discovery aids Laurence in helping his memory to return.\nWith Iskierka\'s egg safely bestowed into Chinese care, Laurence and Temeraire, accompanied by General Chu and a newly mustered army, head northwest to Russia, whilst the rest of Lily\'s formation returns to the Potentate to give aid in Portugal.\nBecause of Britain\'s inability to support Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition (as covered in Black Powder War), the Russians treat Hammond\'s promises of 300 Chinese dragons with some skepticism.\nWhen the Chinese units arrive, they help to force a stalemate at the Battle of Borodino; however, the Russians are outflanked by General Saint-Cyr advancing from occupied st Petersburg (for which Napoleon makes him a Marshal of France), and are forced to fall back, abandoning Moscow.\nAdditionally, Laurence discovers the terrible conditions of the Russian breeding grounds, in which dragons are kept on starvation rations and hobbled via metal spikes through their wings.\nHe proposes to General Kutuzov that conditions be improved; he is somewhat surprised when Kutuzov agrees whole-heartedly, and attempts to bring the Russian ferals to bear on the French.\nHowever, the French have also learned of the situation, and are able to orchestrate attacks on the Russian supply-lines simply by freeing the beasts to do as they please.\nThough Laurence and Temeraire succeed in capturing Marshal Murat (whom the Tsar exiles to Tobolsk) and his dragon Liberté, this does not prevent Napoleon from advancing on the Russian position at Kaluga.\nThe novel ends with Temeraire and Laurence deep in Russia, low on provender, and the first snow of the fateful winter of 1812/1813 beginning to fall.
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conversations.value: Blood of Tyrants: William Laurence awakens on the shores of Japan.\nHe finds himself in great confusion: afflicted with retrograde amnesia, he remembers nothing of how he came to know Chinese nor how he arrived on these shores.\nHe is brought before the local magistrate, Kaneko Hiromasa, and kept in genteel imprisonment for straying outside Nagasaki, the sole port currently open to European traders.\nTemeraire, meanwhile, works with the other dragons of his formation to put to rights the Potentate, their dragon transport, which has run aground on a reef during a storm.\nHaving made the ship seaworthy again, they set sail for Nagasaki, where diplomat Arthur Hammond wishes to make some overtures and to locate Laurence.\nThey receive assistance in this matter from a friendly American dragon, John Wampanoag, a merchant captain attempting to expand his business into Japan.\nHowever, the only word is that Laurence has escaped: as Kaneko broke the law in giving shelter to a foreigner, his young retainer, Junichiro, absconded with Laurence to protect his master\'s honor.\nTemeraire feels additionally slowed by concern for Iskierka, who, after their mating in the previous novel, has produced an egg which must be cared for.\nThrough a series of misadventures involving timber for Potentate\'s repairs, ongoing dragon surveillance and a lot of Western posturing, Laurence and Temeraire eventually reunite, but Temeraire is dismayed to learn that Laurence has no memory of him, and Laurence dismayed to learn that, in the eight years lost from his memory, he became a member of the Aerial Corps.\nThough the two quickly renew their friendship, the other captains remain stilted in Laurence\'s company, talking around subjects which would potentially cause him discomfort.\nHowever, Laurence applies himself willingly to the diplomatic mission at hand: he, an honorary son of the Jiaqing Emperor, is to visit Peking in hopes of forming an alliance between China and Great Britain.\nNo sooner has he arrived than he is swept up in local politics; conservatives are attempting to assassinate the heir to the throne, Prince Mianning (the future Daoguang Emperor), using Western decoys as their catspaws.\nTemeraire is also concerned to learn that Lung Tien Chuan, his twin brother and one of only eight Celestials alive, has died of poisoning.\nThis assassination has attacked Mianning\'s legitimacy, as an Emperor must have a Celestial companion and there are now none to spare; to this end, Temeraire consents to couple with Lung Qin Mei, an Imperial he had grown fond of during his last sojourn in China, to attempt to breed a new one.\nChinese General Fela reports that the White Lotus Rebellion remains active; the Jiaqing Emperor assigns Laurence and Temeraire as royal liaisons to a Chinese army being sent south to pacify the situation.\nUnder the overall command of General Chu, an experienced dragon who helped put down the original rebellion in 1804, the joint British-Chinese force moves out, allowing the British a chance to see the Chinese military at work.\nThey unmask the "rebellion" as a front for British opium-smuggling, despite Laurence\'s well-meaning but uninformed protests to the contrary.\nAdditionally, matters between Temeraire and Laurence deteriorate when Temeraire confesses the great treason he and Laurence committed in Empire of Ivory.\nLaurence feels torn between the nobility of their actions and the hostility of their reception, while Temeraire berates himself for having reminded Laurence of something he clearly wished to forget.\nTemeraire flees the scene, upset, and so happens upon Arkady, one of the Turkish ferals, imprisoned; he is then set upon by dragons of the Chinese army.\nAfter fighting them off, he and Laurence reconcile, and realize that the entire rebellion is a "false-flag operation" designed by Chinese conservatives, led by General Fela, to discredit the British.\nLaurence is more concerned with the news that Arkady was ferrying Tenzing Tharkay as a courier, and with what news Tharkay might have; with General Chu\'s help, they stage a raid on the last remaining holdout of the rebellious forces, at Blue Crane mountain, and there discover Tharkay imprisoned.\nTharkay\'s dispatches indeed prove dire: Napoleon\'s invasion of Russia is due to launch in but one month.\nHowever, Tharkay\'s discovery aids Laurence in helping his memory to return.\nWith Iskierka\'s egg safely bestowed into Chinese care, Laurence and Temeraire, accompanied by General Chu and a newly mustered army, head northwest to Russia, whilst the rest of Lily\'s formation returns to the Potentate to give aid in Portugal.\nBecause of Britain\'s inability to support Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition (as covered in Black Powder War), the Russians treat Hammond\'s promises of 300 Chinese dragons with some skepticism.\nWhen the Chinese units arrive, they help to force a stalemate at the Battle of Borodino; however, the Russians are outflanked by General Saint-Cyr advancing from occupied st Petersburg (for which Napoleon makes him a Marshal of France), and are forced to fall back, abandoning Moscow.\nAdditionally, Laurence discovers the terrible conditions of the Russian breeding grounds, in which dragons are kept on starvation rations and hobbled via metal spikes through their wings.\nHe proposes to General Kutuzov that conditions be improved; he is somewhat surprised when Kutuzov agrees whole-heartedly, and attempts to bring the Russian ferals to bear on the French.\nHowever, the French have also learned of the situation, and are able to orchestrate attacks on the Russian supply-lines simply by freeing the beasts to do as they please.\nThough Laurence and Temeraire succeed in capturing Marshal Murat (whom the Tsar exiles to Tobolsk) and his dragon Liberté, this does not prevent Napoleon from advancing on the Russian position at Kaluga.