Days of Shattered Faith
core novel 2024 The Tyrant Philosophers
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.39 (3,130 ratings, collected 2026-08-29) |
| Page count | 525 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781035901524 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Days of Shattered Faith, the third novel in the Tyrant Philosophers series, shifts the conflict to the land of Usmai, where the Palleseen occupiers are engaged in the systematic destruction of local divinity in order to fuel their war machines. Yasnic, the priest introduced in the earlier books, along with other survivors of the medical unit from House of Open Wounds, is caught in the middle of this campaign against Usmai's gods and traditions as the occupation intensifies. The literal erasure of the supernatural in the region begins to produce disturbing metaphysical consequences for the kingdom and its people, continuing the series' exploration of what happens when a rationalist empire sets out to eliminate the magic and belief systems of those it rules.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Tyrant Philosophers
- Series: The Tyrant Philosophers core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Notes
- From the series record (The Tyrant Philosophers): A sequence of loosely connected novels following the Palleseen, a militarised empire of ideological "perfectionists", as their occupation spreads across a series of very different cities. Each book largely follows new viewpoint characters in a new setting, tied together by the Palleseen war machine and a recurring cast of officers and agents rather than one single continuous plot.
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 Tyrant Philosophers: position 3 of 4: previous House of Open Wounds (2023) · next Pretenders to the Throne of God (2026)
Sources
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