Aurelia
novel 2025 Pendragon Cycle
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781668072349 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
It was a time of the end of empire. The Romans were abandoning Britain, leaving the remaining servants of empire to try to stem the tide of chaos, and Aurelia was one of them: the child of a magistrate and the wife of a legate, last witness of an elder time and handmaid of the age to come. As the old, well-ordered realm she was born into passes away around her, to be replaced by she knows not what, she must find a way to raise her sons to thrive in such a world, and that question her sons, Aurelius and Uther, are born to answer, with the help of Merlin. Narrated by the mother of Aurelius and Uther, who tells her life story to Myrddin, it is a prequel to the Pendragon Cycle, published in 2025.
Where it sits
- Universe: Pendragon Cycle
- Series: Pendragon Cycle (Expanded) ; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Stephen R. Lawhead
Notes
- From the series record (Pendragon Cycle (Expanded)): Avalon (1999) relocates a reincarnated Arthur figure to a present-day setting, a structural departure from the five core novels; Aurelia (2025) is a recent further addition to the 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.
- Publication order, within the series Pendragon Cycle (Expanded): position 2 of 2: previous Avalon: The Return of King Arthur (1999)
- Internal chronology, within Pendragon Cycle: position 7 of 7: previous Avalon: The Return of King Arthur (1999)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Pendragon Cycle
- Stephen Lawhead official site: The Pendragon Cycle
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendragon_Cycle
- Baen (publisher description, via Worlds Without End)
- Simon & Schuster (publisher)
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