The main characters were designed based on the manga series of the same name, published since An English dub aired 1 May on Cartoon Network in Australia and New Zealand, but was sometimes criticised for deleting some scenes, making voices less like the original and making it look like a TV show for 6 year olds. It was originally set to be released in English April , but it was pushed forward. On October 10, , it premiered in the United States on The Hub, a TV channel formerly known as Discovery Kids owned by the toy manufacturer Hasbro, as part of the channel's original programming lineup.
It was taken off the schedule in the Summer of , but returned on September 6, , and ran until October 14, , after completing its run on the network a third time. The English dub was first released on DVD June 30, starting with a collection titled Lief's Adventure Begin , spanning the first thirteen episodes of the show.
A second collection titled The Stolen Gems , spanning episodes was released on September 1, The third collection, titled Escape from the Monster Vraal, spanning episodes , was released on November 3, The fourth and final collection, titled The Valley of the Lost, spanning episodes , was released on April 6, A complete DVD boxset containing all episodes of the English dub was released by the distribution company Cinedigm on May 13, The seven gems of the Belt of Deltora are stolen by the evil Shadow Lord and scattered, hidden in the most feared places in Deltora and the Shadow Lord overtakes the land.
King Endon , who was supposed to protect the Belt whose magic power protects Deltora, somehow vanish from the land to leave his people in the mercy of the tyrant for 16 years. On Lief 's sixteenth birthday after narrowly escaping the Grey Guards , he is presented with the Belt of Deltora, given a task to gather the 7 gems and to find the heir to the throne in order to rid Deltora of the evil Shadow Lord once and for all.
He is also given a sword, an invisibility cloak, a rough map of where the gems were to be and a travelling companion named Barda who was long known as a beggar before revealing himself as one of the palace guards. He and Barda leave city of Del and enter the Forests of Silence where they are attacked by the Wenn and paralysed. They are woken up by a mysterious girl named Jasmine , who at first believed them as Grey Guards and only intended to rob them and leave them to be eaten by the Wennbar.
However, after being persuaded by an old tree that told her that they were not Grey Guards, she comes and saves them with an antidote that freed them from the paralysis. At first, she simply wanted to leave them to their journey, but saw their ignorance of the Forests and that they were not able to communicate with animals as she did and decides to take them to her house.
She then tells them that her mother and father were captured by the Grey Guards and carried away, and that she has lived with Kree, the raven, and Filli, a small hairball-like creature. After Lief and Barda stops the Wennbar from blundering into Jasmine's house and told her where their destination was, she takes takes them to the mid forest where Gorl guards the first gem: The Topaz.
Gorl believed that anyone who entered the place wanted his treasure, the Lilies of Life that could give eternal life to anyone who drinks a full vessel of its nectar. Gorl tells them that once he achieved his goal, he would rule the seven tribes. Unable to convince Gorl that they were not after the Lilies and that Deltora was already united by Adin, they fight but Barda gets stabbed and Lief gets disarmed. But then, Jasmine, who was watching nearby, convinces one of the tree to drop down a large branch on Gorl.
After destroying the guardian Gorl, they recover the Topaz and due to the returning of the sunlight, the Lilies of Life open and they get some of the nectar, a handful to save Barda. The Topaz , that has the ability to open to the spirit world, allows Jasmine to see her long dead mother who ordered her to go with Lief and Barda, for they were trying to restore peace to Deltora. But as soon as she figures out the they were next headed for the Lake of Tears , which was ruled by the sorceress Thaegan , she suddenly gets reluctant.
When they enter the territory of Thaegan , they meet a giant, who was enslaved by Thaegan forever until truths and lies became one. He blocks their way and demands that they answer riddles in order to pass and anyone who fail would get killed. Jasmine and Barda solves their share of riddles but Lief makes a mistake and the giant announces that he is to die.
But as Lief defied him, claiming that the giant cheated, he gets enraged and then decides to play another game. Lief was to say a statement and if it was true, he was to be strangles and if he lied, he was to be beheaded. Lief says, "You will cut off my head" for it was neither truth or lie.
Because truth and lie became one in the statement, the giant gets freed. Because he was originally a bird, he returns to this form and promises that he would repay later on. Jasmine, fearing the safety of her pet raven, Kree, orders him to go back to the Forests. Along the way, they meet and free Manus , a man from the Ralads tribe which was a great race that was most skilled in buildings, who was enslaved by the Grey Guards. Later, they fall into a ring of quicksand and mud but rescued by a couple calling themselves Nij and Doj and spoke in a strange language not even Barda ever heard of.
But with the power of the Topaz , they find that they are actually Jin and Jod, two of Thaegan 's children and that they were speaking terrible insults to them with plots to eat the trio them backwards. With Manus' help, they escape and leave Jin and Jod to fall into their own quicksand trap. Kree returns to help drown them but he and Jasmine gets injured. Manus takes them to Raladin, which was very close to the Lake of Tears, where they rest and train themselves. They also come by the knowledge to destroy Thaegan , which was to draw blood.
Manus offered to come with them to the Lake of Tears. When they arrive at the Lake of Tears, they are attacked by the monster Soldeen. After they try fruitless attempts to plot an attack Soldeen , then changes their minds to rest for a while. Manus plays the flute he came by which arouses Soldeen who then offers to give them the Ruby in exchange for Manus.
When Lief refused, he attacked to get Manus by force. However, when he brushes against the topaz on Lief's belt, he remembered a time when he was a human and also lived to protect the ones he loved and decides to give it to them for free.
When they get back however, the sorceress Thaegan appears and scatter them all. She toys with them and makes fun of them before following her original plans to turn them to monsters themselves. Then, Lief figures out that Thaegan always cast aside her shield when she cast her magic. Jasmine who is good at throwing her dagger, throws her second knife at Thaegan when she prepares to throw another attack.
Thaegan stops the blade and is only angered. However, when Thaegan conjures a curse to destroy the trio, Kree swoops down and scratches her little finger. She then dies and the Ruby , which wards off evil, turnes the Lake of Tears turns into D'OR, the beautiful city it once used to be and every monster in the Lake turns back into the D'OR's people.
The trio set off again with the ruby, after a long celebration with the Ralads. Thaegan's leftover eleven children but manage to trick them into a trap that captures all three of them and argues about who is to have what amounts. Lief tricks them all into fighting each other by telling them that the less they are, the more meat they would get. After escaping the fighting group, they manage to leave Thaegan 's territory believing that the children would not be able to follow.
Then, they visit Tom 's mysterious shop and buy fire beads, magic bread, light pipe, rope, and get a free gift of a strange product called water eaters.
In there, they also meet a strange man with a great scar on his face who says that Thaegan 's death did not stop the thorns on the roads and that it was the Deltoran kings and queens' neglect for the land which caused all this. They manage to buy some Muddlets.
Tom tells them that they must take the left path when they meet a road that spilts to two. However they think that Tom's intentions were to stop them from from getting to the City of the Rats, which in any case had evil reputation, so they take the right one. But then the Muddlets bolts and shakes off the companions, where they are found and taken to the city of Noradz. They were treated well, until they saw Filli, which they reguarded as an evil creature.
Reece tries to have them killed,but with Tira's help, they manage to escape. After escaping the city, they get into the carts where the "unclean" foods go. It turns out that they went to Tom's shop where the food was given to Grey Guards to be transported to Del. Barda realises why Shadow Lord's servants never went hungry even with the poor farming. It was because the foods from Noradz were given to the Shadow lord's servants.
It also indicated that people of Noradz were brainwashed by the Shadow Lord to making so much food and being excessively obsessed with hygiene. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine accuse Tom that he pretends to help the Resistance, the Shadow Lord's rebellion group, while secretly helping the Shadow Lord. Tom replies that he is a business man and that he has no friend or enemy and that he is nice to everybody, even the Shadow Lord, as long as they paid him well enough.
Lief is angered by this but Jasmine tells him that most animals of the Forests trust nobody but themselves. Later on, they arrive to the Broad river, where the City of the Rats rested on the other side. They test the water eaters, which was supposed to absorb water where dry land was required. It works enough to make a narrow passage along the Broad River, but they run out of the water eaters.
When they fret about what to do, the water eaters that was holding back the waters of the river collapse and the water rushes back in, forcing the trio to swim to the plain that surrounded the river. They search through what they have bought from Tom's shop and make bread out of the packet of the Magic Bread and light a fire out of the Fire Beads and relax.
However, a swarm of rats come in to eat their food, and the trio is forced to wear the red clothes they stole from Nordz as protection from the rats and escape to the river. However, the rats keep coming so they use a whole bunch of fire beads to stop the coming rats.
Later on, Lief realises that the people who lived in the City of the Rats were the ancestors of the people of the Noradz.
Jasmine gets sick of having to be chased by dangers all the time so she temporarily takes herself off the trio to return to the forest. But as Lief and Barda enters the City, she returns, although grumpily. As they entered the centre of the city Lief hears an alluring voice commanding him to cast aside the Belt. But as Lief attempts to remove the belt, Barda and Jasmine hold him back and the topaz cuts him out of the trance, and the owner of the voice, Reeah, the giant snake, gives up any more attempts to talk to Lief alone.
The trio confront Reeah , which is weakened slightly by the ruby, because of its power to ward off evil spirits and its ability to neutralise snake venom. However, he is too large to be totally affected and attacks. Lief injures him with his sword and Jasmine attacks his head but the attacks only increase the amount of heads in Reeah.
Reeah, who now has three heads strikes them ferociously and almost ends up eating Lief. Barda pierces Reeah's head, maddening him with rage. Lief takes advantage of this and cuts off the crown on Reeah's head which had the opal on it. They get the Opal , and Reeah smashes himself up in the marble hall in madness but in the process Lief is smashed on a pillar, nearly killed.
He is saved by some of the nectar of the Lilies of Life. However, when they do get the opal, which has the ability to show a glimpse of the future, Lief gets a vision of himself, standing in a sandstorm, calling out for Jasmine and Barda who seemed nowhere in sight. After getting the opal, the three continues on west but is forced to hide under Lief's cloak when an Ak-Baba flies near. During this time, Lief tells Jasmine how his father was a friend to King Endon and how the Chief Advisor, Prandine, contributed to the separation of the gems.
Barda is grieved by the story and almost jumped out to fight the Ak-Baba in vengeance, for it also contained the fact that his mother, Min, was murdered by Prandine for hearing bad rumours about evil deeds in the palace. After narrowly avoiding being seen by the Ak-Baba , the three find the apple orchid that producerd the Queen Bee Cider, a drink that gave bigger strength to the drinker.
They steals some apples to eat, but the Queen Bee, the crappy, old woman who owned the orchid caqtches them red-handed and they are forced to hand over all money but one silver coin as a compensation.
With the need of more money and more food for the journey, they arrive and enter the Rithmere , where they plan to earn money for their keep after a trickster got away with their last silver coin. In the end, they see a sign saying that in the Rithmere Games, a semi-finalist would get glod coins and a grand finalist would get Tempted by the offer, they go to the Champion Inn, where the Rithmere Games' participants were to be assembled.
Mother Brightly, the owner of the Games, take their measurements and their speciality; Lief as speed, Barda as strength, and Jasmine as agility. They get confused when they get locked in the inn, and two of the other participants, Joanna and Owren, inform them that the bars are to keep cowards from escaping.
But they are also informed that the Games was of fighting other strong people. However, when they get in their rooms, a stranger locks them in. Shaken, they go into the competition a little later than the others. The first round was gathering all the people up and fighting anyone they wished with one of the three tool; the pole, the wedge and the shield. Barda, with the strength he had as a palace guard wrestles other giant people like him with the shield.
Jasmine fights with great jumps, balance and unrivialed agility which she got as she was raised in the forest, and chooses to fight with the pole.
Lief fights with the wedge, as he is most specialised in sword fights and other things that required speed. When they are on their way back to the Inn to rest for the night, Jasmine attempts to convince Lief and Barda to lose on purpose, as they already won gold coins. She is even more angered when they say that in the spirit of fair play, they would fight as much as possible. In the Finalist round, the eight of them are to fight opponents on a raised platform until one of them surrenders or gets forced out of the platform.
Barda is firstly matched with Joker Doom but gets kicked out of the platform after a moment of hesitation. Glock, a wild looking man with massive strength, is to fight Joanna.
The winner of this fight is Glock, who crushed Joanna to unconsciousness. Lief was matched with Neridah, who strangely pledged herself to him. Hesitating to fight a seemingly frail looking girl, he is surprised and knocked out. Jasmine was to match Owren, but she is classified as a winner, because Owren was disqualified for attacking Glock. Glock steals her drink in a vain attempt to get more strength, but strangely passes out with Neridah.
Jasmine is suddenly nervous in the match for Joker Doom seemed to have something odd about him, even more stranger than his great scar on his face. Jasmine realises that he is the man who the trio met in Tom's Shop. Barda, in the audience seat comments that Joker's Doom's fighting technique is somewhat reckless and uneasy to deal with. Joker Doom , gets annoyed at the lack of attacks from Jasmine and enrages her by telling her to cry in fear and to hide in her mother's lap. With the anger, Jasmine gives up all efforts to fight with agility and attacks with brute force.
Surprised, Joker Doom gets hit more than he apparently intended to. However, Joker Doom actually was pretending to be weak and drove her to the edge without her noticing. When it seemed that Joker Doom was to win, Jasmine ducks down so that Joker Doom stepped over her and she pushes him off the edge. With gold coins, they triumphantly begin to set out for their original journey again.
However, they get captured by Grey Guards. When they think of how they were captured, they remember that Mother Brightly had them to exit using a strange door that would not open and suddenly fell into a hole that was there.
They realised that Mother Brightly was a servant of the Shadow Lord, assigned to lure strong people of the Plains and Mere into a trap, to take them to the The Shadowlands to entertain the people in there by fighting an unbeatable monster, Vraal.
Joker Doom helped them to escape and reveal himself as the leader of the Resistance, the Shadow Lord's rebels. After refusing his offer for them to join the Resistance, they set back to the west with some of the money they managed to recover from the Grey Guards. Lief recognise the sand from the vision he had from the opal. Also, he receives a strange, familiar buzzing, which neither Barda or Jasmine can hear.
They see a rock warning, bearing a strange, faded warning. They walk a long way into the Shifting sands in the suddenly unbearable sunlight. They come across a strange bag with odd looking insects eating what was inside it, before suddenly hearing four Grey Guards approaching. Lief orders the other two to move backwards in their footprints and jump away to hide in Lief's Cloak.
The Grey Guards get confused for a while, and in the hope that the trio is hiding somewhere, move out to search the sand. Filli, the fur-ball creature, gets unnerved and escapes the cloak and Jasmine dives out to grab him back, revealing their position to the Guards.
When they were on the verge to fight, a large Sands Monster rises to eat the panicking Guards alive while leaving the frozen trio alone. Later, they find strange markings on the sand which looks like the coins. Genres: Adventure Adventure , Fantasy Fantasy. Demographic: Kids Kids. Score: 7. Ranked: 2 2 based on the top anime page. Ranked Popularity Members 25, Visit MALxJapan. More characters.
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Add Detailed Info. Edit Synopsis Long ago, the blacksmith Adin forged a belt of seven powerful gems, one from each of the seven tribes of Deltora. The anime series adapts the first 8 books, which comprises the first series of the saga.
Edit Related Anime Adaptation:. Jasmine Main. Takagaki, Ayahi Japanese. Lief Main. Sakamaki, Ryosuke Japanese. Barda Main. Yara, Yuusaku Japanese. Dain Main. Saiga, Mitsuki Japanese. Doom Supporting. Morita, Junpei Japanese.
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