Accompanied by her father's assistant Mogget, she discovers Touchstone and with him continues to Belisaere (the capital of the Old Kingdom). Travelling into the Old Kingdom, while being hunted, Sabriel makes her way to the ancestral house of the Abhorsens to get clues, equipment, and help. The protagonist, Sabriel, is in her final few days at her school in Ancelstierre (an alternate history of 1910s England), when she is visited by a spirit summoned by her father (the Abhorsen), who is trapped in Death, and departs to rescue him. ISFDB catalogues the entire continuing series as "The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen". have been titled The Abhorsen Trilogy (2003) and The Abhorsen Chronicles (2009). In Australia an omnibus edition comprising three novels and one novella was titled The Old Kingdom Chronicles. The Old Kingdom also consists of the novella The Creature in the Case (2005) and other short fiction. The series has continued with the prequel novel Clariel (2014) and the latest installment of the series, Terciel & Elinor, was released in November 2021. It originated in 1995 with the novel Sabriel and has continued in the novels Lirael (2001), Abhorsen (2003) and Goldenhand (2016). The Old Kingdom, or Abhorsen in North America, is a fantasy series written by Australian author Garth Nix.
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