Алмазный меч, деревянный меч
core novel 1998 The Ordered
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  RU |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (248 ratings, collected 2026-11-01) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9785040010288 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
In the world of Melin, two sword-shaped powers threaten to destroy everything around them. The Emperor of Melin goes to war against the mages who once shaped his cruelty, wanting them to suffer as he has suffered. Far from the court, Agata, a Danu servant in a circus, finds a magical wooden sword named Immelstorn in the forest; whoever wields it will shape the fate of her enslaved people. Elsewhere the dwarf Sidri leads a small party into an underground realm to recover an ancient artifact of his kin. Goat-legged beings from another world watch all of these events, and their aims are unclear and probably not kind. The mage Fess is prepared to carry the swords out of his universe, and himself with them, to stop them.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Ordered
- Series: Летописи Разлома core; position 1 of 1 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Nick Perumov
Notes
- First published in 1998 as two volumes (Книга первая and Книга вторая); it opens the Chronicles of the Rift.
- From the series record (Летописи Разлома): Cycle within the Ordered Worlds opened by the novel that sends the mage Fess from Melin to Evial; its main continuation is the Keeper of the Swords cycle.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Internal chronology, within The Ordered: position 1 of 29: next Рождение мага (1999)
Sources
- FantLab: Летописи Разлома
- FantLab series: Летописи Разлома
- AuthorWars publication record (Эксмо-пресс, 1998, ISBN-10 5040010281; converted to ISBN-13)
- FantLab: Алмазный Меч, Деревянный Меч
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