Die dunkle Horde

core novel 2013 Die Trolle

Record

First published	2013
Original language	DE
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
First-edition ISBN	9783453315235

Synopsis

Set long before the other Trolle novels and away from Wlachkis, in an age when darkness still covers the face of the world and humans are only a distant rumour, the novel tells the dark story of the trolls' rise to power. The trolls of Akkem's tribe live in mountain caves, the winters are growing harsher and food is scarce, and the hunter Ruk finds another tribe dead of hunger and cold in its cave. In the deep of winter an unknown troll, Israk, arrives with his own tribe and plenty of fresh meat, promising a land where trolls will never go hungry again, with herds guarded only by weak creatures. Ruk and his fellow hunter Karn follow him but grow uneasy at his methods. Meanwhile the elf Deleiva, who fought for four years alongside the Keibos and the Eleitam against the dwarves who invaded her homeland, sets out to learn who destroyed two Eleitam settlements.

Where it sits

• Universe: Die Trolle
• Series: Die Trolle core; position 5 of 5 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Christoph Hardebusch

Notes

• Published by Heyne in December 2013 as a Trolle novel; listed by the author among the Trolle books.
• From the series record (Die Trolle): Trilogy and a fourth novel, Heyne, 2006 to 2012.

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 Die Trolle: position 5 of 5: previous Der Krieg der Trolle (2012)

Sources

• Christoph Hardebusch official site: publications
• Buchfreund: Die dunkle Horde, ein Trolle-Roman (Heyne)
• Schweitzer Fachinformationen: Die dunkle Horde (publisher description)
• Fantasybuch.de: review of Die dunkle Horde

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