Brotherhood of the Wolf
core novel 1999 The Runelords
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.85 (11,055 ratings, collected 2026-09-02) |
| Page count | 659 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312867423 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Brotherhood of the Wolf continues immediately after The Sum of All Men, following Gaborn Val Orden as he works to consolidate the endowment-based power and allies gathered in the war against Raj Ahten while facing the emergence of the Wolf Lords, or Frowth Giants and their kin, whose brutal tactics of massed endowment-stripping raise the stakes of the conflict further. Gaborn must reckon with the emerging scope of his own destiny, hinted at in the first novel, as reports arrive of new threats gathering beyond the immediate war with Raj Ahten. Old allies and rivals from Heredon and Mystarria find their loyalties tested as the endowment system that grants the series' warriors their extraordinary abilities is also shown to carry escalating and often brutal costs, deepening the moral complexity introduced in the opening volume.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Runelords
- Series: The Runelords (main sequence) core; position 2 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: David Farland
Notes
- From the series record (The Runelords (main sequence)): The eight-book main numbered sequence (1998-2009), confirmed against publisher/retailer first-edition records; closes the saga's original story arc.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Runelords (main sequence): position 2 of 8: previous The Sum of All Men (1998) · next Wizardborn (2001)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Runelords
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Wolverton_bibliography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Wolverton
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