The Gate Of The Cat
A novel by Andre Norton. Sequel to Trey of Swords, 'Ware Hawk & Sorceress of the Witch World.
Publishing History
- Paperback, Ace, 219pp., ISBN: 0-441-27380-7, 1987
Timeline Notes
- p1. One
- p4. Kelsie McBlair and a wild cat falls through a gate from Ben Blair, Scotland into the Witch World.
- p15. Two
- p18. Kelsie tries to help the dying Witch Roylane (aka Makeease) who gives her jewel to the wild cat Swiftfoot.
- p24. Kelsie meets Dahaun.
- p27. Three
- p31. Kelsie is introduced to Crytha, Yonan, Kemoc, Kyllan and “Urik” (Uruk).
- p33. Kelsie meets Simon Tregarth and the Witch Wittle.
- p38. Dahaun mind touches Kelsie and says “You are—summoned one. Foretold—”
- p39. Four
- p49. Yonan tells of the Turning (see: Three Against the Witch World)
- p53. Five
- p53. Kelsie meets Tsali.
- p55. Swiftfoot passes the witch jewel on to Kelsie.
- p64. Dahaun says “Kaththea sent us word three tens of days ago that there was to come one who would be a balance for us in new struggles to come”. A prophecy about Kelsie’s arrival. She also mentions that Kaththea is “Lady to Hilarion”. (see: Sorceress of the Witch World)
- p67. Six
- p74. Kelsie encounters the Thas.
- p81 Seven
- p87. Yonan joins Kelsie on her quest.
- p92. Kelsie and Yonan are captured by the Thas.
- p93. Eight
- p101. Yonan and Kelsie encounter Lord Rhain, a "Traitor, Betrayer, Dark One" from the ancient past when Yonan was Tolar. (see: Trey of Swords)
- p107. Nine
- p118. Yonan tells Kelsie "A year agone Urik [sic] found such a path when the gray ones had him at their mercy, or so they thought." after he uses his quan iron hilted sword to activate a "star of white stone" that transports them away from the Thas burrow.
- p119. Ten
- p133. Eleven
- p147. Twelve
- p159. Thirteen
- p171. Fourteen
- p183. Fifteen
- p195. Sixteen
- p195. Kelsie, Yonan and Wittle discover the magic topographical map of Escore & Estcarp.
- p207. Seventeen
Timeline Analysis
This takes takes place after Sorceress of the Witch World, Trey of Swords and 'Ware Hawk.
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