In the final volume, Alanna becomes King's Champion to Jonathan and Baroness of the coastal estate Pirate's Swoop, following her marriage to George Cooper, newly minted Baron of Pirate's Swoop. In the third book, she becomes an honorary member of the 'Bazhir' (a Bedouin-like ethnicity) and gains acceptance as a warrior, mage and a woman. Because of her double identity as a girl masquerading as a boy, small size, magic, and impatience, Alanna often questions her own character. In the second volume, Alanna also acquires the magical cat 'Faithful', who accompanies her thereafter (Faithful is hinted to be an immortal, but his origins remain unknown. Her principal rivals are classmate Ralon of Malven and Jonathan's kinsman Duke Roger. Alanna befriends characters of a wide background during the quartet including George, the commoner king of the thieves the scholar Sir Myles of Olau senior students Gareth (Gary) of Naxen, Raoul of Goldenlake, and Prince Jonathan of Conté Princess Thayet of Sarain Liam Ironarm, a martial-arts champion and Buriram (Buri) Tourakom, Thayet's bodyguard. Throughout the four novels Alanna struggles with her gender identity, as well as going through puberty and bullying. Noblewoman Alanna of Trebond, disguised as the boy 'Alan', exchanges places with her twin brother Thom, to go to the royal palace in the city of Corus to train for knighthood, while Thom studies magic. The series consists of four books: Alanna: The First Adventure (1983), In the Hand of the Goddess (1984), The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (1986) and Lioness Rampant (1988). The Song of the Lioness is a young adult series of fantasy novels published in the 1980s by Tamora Pierce.

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