Dragon Wing
core novel 1990 The Death Gate Cycle
Record
| First published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.98 (30,237 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 430 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553286397 |
Synopsis
Dragon Wing, the opening novel of the Death Gate Cycle, is set on Arianus, a world of floating islands divided into the Low, Mid, and High realms, each inhabited by different peoples with little contact between the levels. In the Low Realm, an assassin named Hugh the Hand is hired to kill a mysterious child prince, Bane, a job complicated by the boy's own unnerving nature. At the same time, Haplo, an explorer belonging to the Patryn people, arrives in Arianus through a mystical gate on a reconnaissance mission for his powerful lord, observing the realm's fractured societies and ancient magical technology while keeping his true origins and purpose hidden from those he encounters.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Death Gate Cycle
- Series: The Death Gate Cycle core; position 1 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Margaret Weis
- Author: Tracy Hickman
Notes
- From the series record (The Death Gate Cycle): Complete seven-book sequence, a separate co-authored world from Weis & Hickman's Dragonlance.
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 Death Gate Cycle: position 1 of 7: next Elven Star (1990)
Sources
← The Death Gate Cycle dossier · All universes
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