Wave runner trilogy

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The wave runners trilogy is a fantasy - novel series by Kai Meyer , the first volume was published in 2003. In addition, there is the radio play The Klabauterkrieg that the story of two protagonists tells of books. The radio play ends at the point where you meet the other protagonists in the first book.

Novels

Part 1 - The wave runner

The story of Jolly the burbot begins with a great adventure: with a battle on the open sea. Skinny Maddy's crew is about to board a Spanish merchant ship when they are trapped . On the deck of the merchant ship, instead of rich prey, the crew awaits deadly spiders, which immediately bite and kill every pirate on board. Only Jolly can save herself into the figurehead. However, there is also a spider there that bites Jolly. Jolly is stranded unconscious on the coast of a Caribbean island and is discovered by a boy.

There she is immediately taken up and looked after by Munk, who, as it turns out, is also a burbot and can also walk on the water, and his parents. On this island, Jolly comes into contact with magic, ghosts and the ghost dealer for the first time. When he wants to leave the island again after his last visit, he is pursued by Jolly and Munk, as he seems strange to Jolly. After a while, dead fish begin to rain down from the sky. Alarmed by a bloodcurdling scream, Jolly and Munk run back to Munk's parents' island. There they find a huge monster that apparently made up of debris from the sea and murdered Munk's parents. Completely dejected, Munk and Jolly return to the ghost trader's ship to take him to the pirate nest New Providence . Jolly hopes to find clues there to the people who lured the Skinny Maddy into an ambush and sank. Instead of the hoped-for clue, Jolly comes across the pirate princess Soledad and the two become friends. When half of New Providence is suddenly looking for Jolly and Soledad, the two of them flee together with Munk, the ghost dealer, Captain Walker and Buenaventure. Captain Walker and Buenaventure make their ship, the Carfax , available for a fee, as the ghost trader's ship is no longer seaworthy. As it turns out, there is still a stowaway on the ship: Griffin, a simple cabin boy who hides below deck until he is found by Munk.

Next, the crew heads for another pirate town: Tortuga . After the bankruptcy in New Providence, Jolly wants to try again to get the information she needs. But instead of the requested clues, the pirates only find one other member for their crew: the hexhermetic woodworm, also known as the worm . When the pirates have to flee again, they are not as lucky as in New Providence because they are being chased by another ship. When it finally comes to a sea battle, Jolly and Griffin are separated from the rest of the crew and land on a desert island. The remaining pirates continue to Aelenium, a starfish town, which was the actual destination of their expedition.

Part 2 - The Shell Mages

In the course of the sea battle, Griffin and Jolly go overboard, but are able to save themselves on a lava island. There they meet Agostini, a bridge builder, and natives who are building a large wooden bridge to another island. When Jolly and Griffin walk this bridge almost to the end, however, they realize that it actually leads to the Mare Tenebrosum. You can evade its hypnotic effect and are brought by the ghost dealer and some Aelenians on hippocamps, huge seahorses, to Aelenium, a coral city and guardian of the maelstrom. There Jolly and Munk are taught shell magic by their forefather. She also learns that tadpoles can jump into the water at great speed. You can breathe, talk, see, walk, and swim very quickly underwater.

Shortly afterwards, Soledad sets off with Captain Walker and the ghost dealer to the secret meeting of the Caribbean pirates to ask for help for Aelenium and at the same time to avenge her father. Meanwhile, Jolly accidentally stumbles upon a lead that leads to Bannon and since she is not so enthusiastic about Munk's new arrogance and her upcoming task, she hijacks a ship and sails to the Orinoco Delta . On the way, she discovers that Buenaventure and the hexhermetic woodworm have come along as stowaways to help her. Griffin also sets out to stand with Jolly, but is swallowed alive by a whale.

Near the delta, Jolly discovers that Bannon is not dead as she believed, but betrayed her and defected with his crew to the cannibal king Tyrone. She also meets the three water weavers, who tell her the truth about Aelenium and how the world came into being. Jolly then decides that she will take up the fight against the Maelstrom. In the meantime, Soledad can avenge her father, but cannot convince the pirates to help them, as they are promised great booty by Tyrone. Because the ghost dealer, Walker and they suspect Tyrone could be allied with the Maelstrom, they go to his fortress in the Orinoco Delta and meet Jolly, Buenaventure and the woodworm there. This can destroy part of Tyrone's ship fleet by eating holes in the planks. The six then return to Aelenium.

Part 3 - The water weavers

Griffin, who met the former monk Ebenezer in the whale's stomach, is able to convince the man and the whale to swim to Aelenium to aid the city. Meanwhile, Jolly and Munk set off towards Schorfenschrund, the origin of the Maelstrom, but can still say goodbye to Griffin. Then the two tadpoles descend to the bottom of the sea. Meanwhile, the war for Aelenium begins on the surface: Griffin, Soledad, Walker and Buenaventure are fighting in different posts and threaten to be overrun by the sheer masses of Klabauters in between. The hexhermetic woodworm begins to pupate.

Meanwhile, Munk and Jolly encounter Aina at several tens of thousands of feet. She says she was one of the tadpoles who first conquered the Maelstrom thousands of years ago. However, they were locked in with him, only Aina was able to escape and now wants to free her friends with the help of both of them. There are three of them on their way. At the Klabauterberg, the place where the first Klabauter hatched, Jolly and Munk are separated by a strong current. Aina turns out to be hostile, takes Jolly prisoner and locks her in the Klabauterberg.

Meanwhile, the fighting rages on for Aelenium: Jasconius, the whale, fights a giant jellyfish, the master of the Klabauter, and can ultimately defeat him by sacrificing himself and swallowing him. The Klabauter flee because of the death of their master, but instead Tyrone, the cannibal king, appears with his fleet of pirates and cannibals. Even if the hexhermetic woodworm is a feathered serpent god after hatching and a sea serpent god protects the city's anchor chain, the defensive wall around the city breaks in two places.

Under water, Jolly meets Kangusta, the mother of the Klabauter imprisoned in the Klabauterberg. With their help she escapes from the mountain and meets Munk at the Schorfenschrund, who seems to be following Aina, who is actually the maelstrom herself. He locks Jolly in a magical pearl, which is then sucked in by the maelstrom. Since Aina has no power in the Maelstrom, Munk follows Jolly and tells her about his plan to defeat the Maelstrom. He had seen through Aina before, but saw no way to warn Jolly. Because there is no shell inside the maelstrom into which the pearl's magic could withdraw, the pearl explodes, Munk and Jolly are washed away and the maelstrom is destroyed. This triggers a huge tidal wave that destroys large parts of Aelenium, but also kills almost all of Tire's fleet. After visiting the water weavers again, Jolly is brought back to Aelenium, where she meets Munk, Griffin, Soledad, Walker, Buenaventure, the ghost dealer and the snake god, who all survived the fighting.

radio play

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On November 29th, 2008 the radio play Der Klabauterkrieg was released on CD. It is a WDR production with Kai Meyer as the author. The director was Jörg Schlüter and Rainer Quade was responsible for the composition. The plot is in principle independent of the novels, but takes place before their events.

The Klabauterkrieg

The story begins in a pub in Port Nassau, New Providence, where Captain Walker is asked to tell his and Buenaventure's story in order to pay off his gambling debts:

Walker has been a prisoner in the Antigua crockery for ten years, including Governor Greyshade. He was captured at the age of six when his mother, pirate captain Kindra, was betrayed and sentenced to death. In the shard pits he has to take care of the injured fighters, including Buenaventure, with whom he befriends. One day a captain, Salamanca, comes and helps the two to escape, because he wants to find Kindra's treasure in the Klabauter's crown with Walker's help. Salamanca has bought Kindra's old ship, the Carfax, and is set to sail after a shrunken head has been told. You sail to the region of the Klabauter Wars, to Santa Maria, an island on which the three-eyed Madonna can be found. After the treasure hunters have found her, Walker discovers a clue in the Madonna, whereupon they set off for the Island of the Mermaid. As it turns out, the whole island is the goblet's crown, but before they can do anything, Walker, Buenaventure and Salamanca are attacked by goblin monkeys. They flee to a small island with a temple where Lalane, the mermaid, lives. She gives Walker a message from his mother and he finds the treasure in his mother's ashes. A fight ensues with Salamanca, who confesses to betraying Kindra ten years ago. At that moment Lalane Walker comes to the rescue and pulls Salamanca with him under the water. Walker is then elected captain of the Carfax.

Walker's story is abruptly interrupted when the call comes that the Spaniards are attacking Port Nassau. He escapes outside with Buenaventure and is hired by the ghost dealer there.

people

Jolly is the main character in the trilogy. She is an orphan and a burbot. Jolly is raised by the dreaded pirate captain Bannon. He tells her that he bought her from a slave market. When she later found out about the hunt for burbot, she began to doubt this depiction. Its ability to walk across water makes it very useful to pirates. She only learns to use her other tadpole skills in Aelenium. In the course of the story she falls in love with the pirate boy Griffin.

Munk is a farmer's boy and like Jolly a burbot. He rescues her after the ambush against her crew from the water. When Jolly gets to know him, it is his dream to become a pirate, because he is bored of life as a farmer. He is identified as a burbot by the ghost dealer. This teaches him to use shell magic and occasionally brings him old and rare shells. His initially cheerful character turns into an increasingly arrogant one after the death of his parents. His interest in shell magic becomes an obsession, which he uses against his opponents with increasing cruelty. Even if he is jealous of Griffin because he is also in love with Jolly, he ends up turning against the maelstrom and destroying it.

The ghost dealer is a trader who collects ghosts and sells them to farmers. He befriends Munk and begins to prepare him for the fight against the maelstrom without his knowledge. After Munk's parents died, he took Jolly and Munk with him on his ghost ship. His superhuman abilities include transforming people into stories, collecting and summoning ghosts, and traveling great distances in seconds. Jolly later learns from the water weavers that the ghost dealer is a god. His job is to bring the tadpoles to Aelenium. The ghost dealer is also known as "the one-eyed" or the raven god. He is usually accompanied by his parrots Hugh and Moe.

Griffin is a pirate boy. However, due to his tendency to cheat, he is often thrown from various pirate ships. He has known Jolly for a long time and later falls in love with her. Like Soledad, he joins the tadpoles to flee New Providence. He trained to be a stingray rider in Aelenium to defend the city.

Princess Soledad is the daughter of the murdered pirate emperor Scarab. Since Kenndrick killed her father and took his place, Soledad has strived to kill him and become a pirate empress herself. However, she fails in her first murder attempt and joins the tadpoles and their companions in order to flee New Providence. After she has succeeded in defeating Kenndrick, she returns to Aelenium and helps as a diver in the defense of Aelenium. At the end of the story, she develops a relationship with Walker.

Walker is a well known and experienced pirate captain. The ghost dealer tricked him into bringing the tadpoles to Tortuga. After a bounty is therefore put on him and Buenaventure, he agrees to accompany the tadpoles on to Aelenium. His ship is the Carfax . He fights on the side of the defenders of Aelenium. In the end, he gets together with Soledad.

Buenaventure is Walker's friend and helmsman. He has a pit bull head and is stronger than normal people. He is also referred to by Walker as a "veteran of the Antigua crockery", although his deeds in the crockery are not discussed further. Just like Walker, he joins the Aelenium defenders.

The hexhermetic wood worm , usually simply called "worm", is found and saved by Jolly in Tortuga. There he lived in a shipwreck and pretended to be an oracle without showing himself. He tells Jolly, Munk and Griffin various things about the Maelstrom, but doesn't really reveal how he came to know it. His poetry received mixed feedback, but in Aelenium he earned names such as “Wunderwurm”, “Maestro Poeticus”, “Spring Beautiful Language”, “Lancelot refreshing songs” or “Diamond of Poetry”. He later pupates and becomes the winged snake god.

The Acherus is a servant of the Maelstrom. It is formed from mud and remains of corpses and is several meters high. Munk destroys him with the help of the ghosts who worked on his parents' farm. The Acherus was originally a burbot that was transformed by the maelstrom.

Agostini is a bridge builder who builds a bridge into Mare Tenebrosum and a shapeshifter, a wyvern.

Aina is a burbot that was born several thousand years ago. It appears to Jolly and Munk on the way to the Schorfenschrund, but has no solid body. After Jolly and Munk are separated, Jolly learns that Aina has actually become the Maelstrom herself. Munk had already seen through Aina before, but could not tell Jolly without Aina noticing. She left the mainland because she was cast out by humans because of her powers and got involved with the masters of the Mare Tenebrosum, who eventually helped her to become the maelstrom.

Bannon is a pirate captain and Jolly's foster father. He is known as the "sea devil of the Antilles". At the beginning of the first book he is ambushed. Even if Jolly refused to believe in his death, everything spoke for it. It later turns out he joined Tyrone.

D'Artois is captain of the Roch Guard in Aelenium and commander in chief.

Ebenezer is the monk who lives in the whale Jasconius . Griffin meets him when he is swallowed by Jasconius. Ebenezer has an ambitious plan to open the first tavern in the belly of a whale. He joins the defenders of Aelenium with Jasconius. The whale fights valiantly in the battle for Aelenium and finally sacrifices itself to kill the master of the Klabauter. However, Ebenezer survived.

Count Aristotle is the chairman of the council in Aelenium.

The Lord of the Klabauter is like the Acherus burbot, which was transformed from the maelstrom and enslaved. He has the appearance of a boy trapped in a giant jellyfish. The jellyfish draws its strength from the water and can heal its wounds when it is in the water.

Kangusta is the mother of the Klabauter and their real ruler. But Aina snatched her brood with the master of the Klabauter. Now she sits locked in the Klabauterberg. Jolly finds her and promises to regain command of the goblins for her in exchange for helping Jolly outside.

Rouquette and Galiano are the two elders of the Antilles Captain's Council. They try to stop Tyrone when he wants to go to Aelenium, but fail and lose their lives.

Tyrone is a feared pirate captain. At first you only learn from him that he is considered lost. Some legends claim that he rose to be the ruler of the cannibal peoples of the Orinoco Delta. It turns out that he actually became their king. Years later he reappears at a meeting with the most important Antilles captains and promises them support in the attack on a heavily fortified Spanish port city. In truth, it is a diversionary maneuver, as Tyrone has long since joined the Maelstrom and is planning an attack on Aelenium.

The forefather is the teacher of the tadpoles in Aelenium. He is not a burbot himself, but knows everything about their abilities. Jolly learns from the water weavers that the forefather is really the creator of the world in which people live. This makes him the oldest of all gods.

Places and terms

Aelenium is a floating city. It is built on and in coral that itself grew on a giant starfish. The city is attached to the sea floor with a heavy chain. It serves as a base for the guards of the Maelstrom and is home to some ancient gods.

Klabauter are sea creatures roughly human in shape. They are known as the "deep tribes" and almost never leave the water. The different tribes are enemies with one another. Klabauters have long claws and several rows of teeth. They mainly feed on carrion. They are enslaved by the Maelstrom and forced to form a single army. The ancestors of the Klabauter come from the Mare Tenebrosum and got involved with people.

The maelstrom is a huge vortex in the ocean that the rulers of the Mare Tenebrosum originally created from Aina as the gateway to our world. After being trapped by the first two tadpoles, Aina felt betrayed by their creators and decided to destroy humanity without them. The maelstrom rises from a huge clam in the scab and still contains a small part of the Mare Tenebrosum.

The Mare Tenebrosum (lat. Sea of ​​darkness) is a parallel world in which there is no land. It is the oldest world and the origin of gods such as B. forefather. The current rulers of Mares want to switch to our world in order to rule over it. It is not known whether they are gods or mortals, but they can live for several thousand years.

Tadpoles are children who were born shortly after a magic breakout. They have the ability to walk over water and work shell magic. In Aelenium, Jolly and Munk learn that they can also breathe and see underwater. In addition, they survive the water pressure at great depths.

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