Tara Duncan (full name Tara'tylanhnem T'al Barmi Ab Santa Ab Maru T'al Duncan) is the heroine of the eponymous series of bestselling novels in French written by Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian.
She later learns that she is a “spellbinder” who was born on the planet Otherworld, where magic exists, and raised on Earth as an ordinary teenager by her maternal grandmother Isabella.
Otherworld contains a variety of beings, including evil wizards, giants, "vampyrs," dwarves, elves, merpeople, and two-headed administrators.
Tara's companions in the series include her fellow Earthling Fabrice and the friends she makes on OtherWorld, including a half-elf called Robin M'angil, thief-in-training Caliban Dal Salan, the shapeshifting princess Gloria Daavil of Lancovit (nicknamed "Sparrow"), and a short-tempered but warmhearted female dwarf named Fafnir.
The English translation by William Rodarmor of Volume 1, Tara Duncan and the Spellbinders, was published by Sky Pony Press in June 2012.
A 2D-animated series that premiered in France in 2010 aired in the U.S. on the "Girls Rule" division of the video-on-demand service Kabillion.
[3] Otherworld, (or "AutreMonde [fr]" in the original French), is the planet on which the majority of Tara Duncan's adventures occur.
The canceled 2010-2011 animated series is also known as Tara Duncan: The Evil Empress, even though its first and only season is loosely based on the original twenty-chapter novel.
She is a teenage girl with dark blue eyes and blond hair with a white lock, as she is a full member of the Imperial Family and the direct descendant/heir of High Wizard Demiderus T'al Barmi.
Tara is the Imperial Spellbinder, and she has to fight with a mysterious dark spellbinder while learning to be the Imperial Heiress and Crown Princess of Omois, as she is the heir and niece of Empress Lisbeth'tylahnem and the daughter of Emperor Danviou T'al Barmi Ab Santa Ab Maru, as well as Selena Duncan.
However, Tara uses her magic to help people, by doing things that were called impossible before, such as curing vampyrs who drank human blood.
Being half elven is rare on Otherworld and Robin suffers because of the stigma of miscegenation and is rejected by other elves.
Caliban Dal Salan "Cal" is a Patented thief in training (a spy working for the government).