Chimaera
core novel 2004 The Three Worlds Cycle
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (1,530 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781841493251 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
All resistance has been crushed: in minutes of overwhelming violence the Council's air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed the defences of Fiz Gorgo, and Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their allies have been condemned to die in an aerial spectacle staged to display Chief Scrutator Ghorr's power and majesty. Their one remaining hope is Nish, but he is trapped in a burning watchtower, hunted by the scrutators and by his former lover Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before he can rescue his friends he must persuade Ullii to spare him and overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world, and even then, to win the war, the allies must defeat the scrutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council's bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar. The concluding volume of the quartet.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Three Worlds Cycle
- Series: The Well of Echoes core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ian Irvine
Notes
- From the series record (The Well of Echoes): The second Three Worlds quartet, set some two centuries after The View from the Mirror: Santhenar at war with the lyrinx, winged predators from the Void, fought with crystal-driven clankers; the crystal-worker and geomancer Tiaan, the apprentice spy Nish, the artisan Irisis and the scrutator Xervish Flydd. Book three is published in the United States and in later editions as Scrutator.
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 Well of Echoes: position 4 of 4: previous Alchymist (2003)
- Internal chronology, within The Three Worlds Cycle: position 14 of 15: previous The Way Between the Worlds (1999) · next The Sapphire Portal (2020)
Sources
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