Deltora Quest is the collective title for three distinct series of children's fantasy books, written by Australian author Emily Rodda.
Program Emily Rodda announced that she had sold the movie rights of the Deltora Quest series to a "prominent Hollywood production company.
Along the way they meet Jasmine: a wild girl from the Forests of Silence, who has long, brown hair and green eyes.
She can speak to trees and has two pets: a raven named Kree and a small, grey, furry creature called Filli.
Their quest is to find the seven gems of the fabled Belt of Deltora: the topaz, the ruby, the opal, the lapis lazuli, the emerald, the amethyst, and the diamond.
The books in this series are The Forests of Silence, The Lake of Tears, City of the Rats, The Shifting Sands, Dread Mountain, The Maze of the Beast, The Valley of the Lost, and Return to Del.
With only a part of a torn map left by Doran the Dragonlover, they set out to find these Sisters and destroy them.
Eventually they discover that the Sisters are hidden in the four most eastern, northern, western and southern corners of Deltora.
The former book, which details the drawing of Deltoran monsters, was primarily authored by illustrator Marc McBride.
At the Melbourne Writer's Festival, Rodda announced that the lands in Rowan of Rin are set in the same world as Deltora, to its east.
Barda describes Lief as "a young hot-head" who spends his time roaming the streets and both tempting and dodging trouble.
Lief is tempted in many ways and by the end of the first series he has grown not only in bravery and strength, but also in wisdom and patience.
In the third series, Lief and friends once more quest around Deltora, awakening the ancient dragons which help him destroy the Sisters of the North, South, East, and West.
He escaped the palace the day the Shadow Lord attacked and his mother, the nursemaid Min, died, becoming a beggar because he knew he would be the next target the enemy would try to kill.
At the end of the third series Barda finds love and happiness with Lindal of Broome, whom he marries and together they have six children.
In the beginning of the series, Jasmine is a wild orphan girl who lives a solitary life in the dangerous Forests of Silence with her pets: Kree, a raven, and Filli, a small, grey, furry creature.
A recurring political idea expressed in the series is that a leader who does not understand ordinary people is doomed to failure.
[12] A 65-episode Deltora Quest anime series of the first eight books began its broadcast season in Japan on 6 January 2007.
Rodda said she chose this option because she and her children "love Japanese anime and want any adaptation of Deltora to be cool".
At least one noticeable alteration has been made in the studio's adaptation: Lief's hair colour has been changed from black to blond.
[citation needed] Rodda has not ruled out a live action version of the story (either film or television) being made at some point in the future, but she intends to wait until she gets an offer that "is genuinely admiring of the books as they are".