Banewreaker
core novel 2004 The Sundering
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.48 (4,584 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 512 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765305213 |
Synopsis
Banewreaker is set in the world of Urulat and opens the two-volume Sundering duology, which retells a Lord of the Rings-style epic quest narrative from the perspective of the side conventionally cast as the villains. The novel follows the followers and allies of Satoris, a fallen god marked as the source of evil in Urulat's mythology, as a band of ostensibly heroic figures sets out on a quest against him modeled closely on familiar epic-fantasy tropes. By foregrounding the point of view of characters most of Urulat regards as monstrous or evil, the novel reframes the expected quest structure as a tragedy, inviting sympathy for the side that seems destined to lose, and opens with an epigraph from Milton's Paradise Lost that signals its interest in retelling a familiar story of damnation and defiance from the other side.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Sundering
- Series: The Sundering core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jacqueline Carey
Notes
- From the series record (The Sundering): An epic-fantasy duology retelling a Tolkien-style quest against a 'dark lord' from the losing side's perspective.
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 The Sundering: position 1 of 2: next Godslayer (2005)
Sources
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