Drumindor
core novel 2024 Riyria / Legends of the First Empire
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.36 (4,603 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| Page count | 528 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781943363711 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
The fifth Riyria Chronicles novel sends Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater to the resort city of Tur Del Fur on what looks like an easy, well-paid job: stopping a disgruntled dwarven craftsman who was fired from his position and has vowed retaliation against the legendary sea-defense towers of Drumindor, structures relied upon to protect the city from invasion. What begins as a straightforward matter of tracking down one aggrieved former employee grows more complicated as Royce and Hadrian look closer into the craftsman's grievance and the towers' defenses, raising the stakes of the job well beyond what either of them expected when they took it.
Where it sits
- Universe: Riyria / Legends of the First Empire
- Series: The Riyria Chronicles core; position 5 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Michael J. Sullivan
Notes
- From the series record (The Riyria Chronicles): Prequel novels/novellas, set ~9-10 years before the Riyria Revelations; internal chronology matches publication order. A 6th volume, Blythin Castle, was still being drafted by the author as of the most recent public update found and is not yet published, not registered here per Article 2.
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 Riyria Chronicles: position 5 of 5: previous The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter (2017)
- Internal chronology, within Riyria / Legends of the First Empire: position 9 of 20: previous Age of Legend (2019) · next Age of Death (2020)
Sources
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