Chapter 1 Captivity Summary

In the first chapter of Earthborn the author introduces the reader to the tribe of the Akmari and the principle characters within it, who will later become some of the main protagonists throughout the book (namely Akmaro the renegade priest of the tribe and his son Akma). The Akmari are held captive by another tribe of humans known as the Elemaki, ruled over by Akmaro's rival and fierce enemy Pabulog and his four sons. In Chapter One we also discover that Pabulog and his Elemaki are using another species - the sentient Diggers (or earth people) as taskmasters over the Akmari, a fact which leads to simmering tensions between the two factions of humanity.

In this chapter the character of Akma encounters one of Pabulog's son, Didul, a charming and clever youth who stops him from being beaten by one of...