The Twelve Kingdoms: The Vast Spread of the Seas

The Twelve Kingdoms: The Vast Spread of the Seas
Author Fuyumi Ono
Original title Sea God in the East, Vast Sea in the West (東の海神 西の滄海)
Translator Alexander O. Smith & Elye J. Alexander
Illustrator Akihiro Yamada
Cover artist Akihiro Yamada
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Series The Twelve Kingdoms
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher Kodansha
Publication date
June 1994
Published in English
March 2009
Media type Hardcover and Paperback
ISBN 978-1-4278-0259-0 (English version - Paperback)
978-1-5981-6948-5 (English version - Hardcover)
Preceded by The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Wind
Followed by The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn

The Vast Spread of the Seas (Sea God in the East, Vast Sea in the West, 東の海神 西の滄海) is the third book in The Twelve Kingdoms fantasy series written by Fuyumi Ono. The English-language edition was published by Tokyopop on March 2009 as Hardcover under its PopFiction imprint.[1]

The book focuses on Enki and Shoryu, the kirin and king of En respectively, in the early years of Shoryu's reign when Shoryu is forced to quell a rebellion in En. The novel reveals their origins as taika, people originating in the Twelve Kingdoms but swept away by a shoku storm and born in Hourai, and how they met.

Plot introduction

When only an eggfruit, the kirin of the En Kingdom, Rokuta, was transported to Japan for his own protection. But he was abandoned soon after birth by his surrogate parents, left to fend for himself in the mountains. It just so happened that at the same time, a young boy in the En Kingdom named Koya was also abandoned by his own parents, after which he was raised by demon beasts. Their similar circumstances aren't the only thing to bind these two boys, though. Twenty years after their abandonment, their destinies intersect, with potentially disastrous consequences for the En Kingdom. [2]

References

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