Who Is Cornelia Funke's Inkdeath?

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Inkdeath is a fantasy novel written by award-winning German author Cornelia funke, and the third in its series. It is a novel set inside another novel, which has been written so well as to come to life. Numerous characters, good and evil alike, struggle to influence the outcome of the story by the use of words alone. Inkdeath begins with Mortimer, the Bluejay, in the forest near Ombra, attacking the forces of the Adderhead wherever he can find them. This draws the attention of Orpheus, a man who has learned how to change the land and its inhabitants by writing words and reading them aloud. Orpheus has sworn to bring back his favorite hero, Dustfinger, and Mortimer agrees to summon the White Women in order to allow him to do so, for they can