Vale of The Vole - Plot Summary

Plot Summary

Characters of
Vale of the Vole
Primary character Eskil
Major characters Volney
Chex
Bria
Metria

On his way to the Good Magician's castle, Esk meets Chex, the winged centaur daughter of Xap Hippogryph and Chem Centaur. Despite having wings, Chex is unable to fly due to her solid equine weight; she is going to ask Humfrey how she can fly. Later, the two of them meet up with Volney Vole, who always replaces S's with V's during speech. Volney has a demon problem of his own, as his home by the Kiss-Me River has become unbearably infested with bugs ever since the demons decided to straighten out the river's undulating curves.

When they discover the Good Magician is missing, they decide to look for him. On the way, they go through a Hypnogourd, where bad dreams are manufactured. Esk meets Bria Brassie, a heavy brass woman, and they fall in love. The team discovers that Chex can make items temporarily light when she flicks them with her tail, which provides a solution to her problem of how to fly.


Xanth series by Piers Anthony
First series
  • A Spell for Chameleon
  • The Source of Magic
  • Castle Roogna
  • Centaur Aisle
  • Ogre, Ogre
  • Night Mare
  • Dragon on a Pedestal
  • Crewel Lye
  • Golem in the Gears
  • Vale of the Vole
  • Heaven Cent
  • Man from Mundania
  • Isle of View
  • Question Quest
  • The Color of Her Panties
  • Demons Don't Dream
  • Harpy Thyme
  • Geis of the Gargoyle
  • Roc and a Hard Place
  • Yon Ill Wind
  • Faun & Games
  • Zombie Lover
  • Xone of Contention
  • The Dastard
  • Swell Foop
  • Up in a Heaval
  • Cube Route
Second series
  • Currant Events
  • Pet Peeve
  • Stork Naked
  • Air Apparent
  • Two to the Fifth
  • Jumper Cable
  • Knot Gneiss
  • Well-Tempered Clavicle
  • Luck of the Draw
  • Esrever Doom
  • Board Stiff
Characters
  • List of Xanth characters
  • Magicians
  • Family of Merlin
  • Family of Ebnez
  • Family of Humfrey
  • Centaur family
  • Goblin family
  • Gourd
  • Mundanes
  • Other characters
  • Geography of Xanth
  • Companions of Xanth
  • Letters to Jenny


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