The Regalian council believes Gregor to be this warrior, and tries to convince him to undertake the quest mentioned in ' The Prophecy of Gray'.

It is then that he learns the real reason for the rats' hatred of Overlanders: a mysterious prophecy written by the human colony's founder, Bartholomew of Sandwich, hints that an Overland 'warrior' will stop an attempt by the rats to take over the underground realm once and for all. At first, Gregor wants only to return home, but when he is attacked by two rats during an escape attempt and saved by the Underlanders, he inadvertently brings the conflict between the two groups to a head. While there, they meet several 'Underlanders', the Regalians' crown princess Luxa, her cousin Henry, and the bats who are 'bonded' to them being among them. But when Boots falls through an old air duct grate in the building's basement and Gregor dives in after her, the two fall miles below into the Underland: a subterranean world home to humans with near-translucent skin giant sentient bats, rodents, and insects and an escalating conflict between the human city of Regalia and the rats' King Gorger. Little does he know his quest will change him-and the Underland-forever.Įleven-year-old Gregor is left home alone in his family's New York City apartment to watch his baby sister, Boots, and grandmother. But when he discovers that a prophecy foretells a role for him in the Underland's future, he realizes it might be the only way to solve the biggest mystery of his life. There, humans live uneasily beside giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats-but the fragile peace is about to fall apart. When Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. It was also published under the alternate title ' Gregor and the Rats of the Underland' in the United Kingdom edition. Since its release, the novel has been published in several languages and has even been made available as both an audiobook and ebook. Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane Gregor the Overlander is this first book in The Underland Chronicles series.

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