Elven Star
core novel 1990 The Death Gate Cycle
Record
| First published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (19,629 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 367 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553290981 |
Synopsis
The Patryn explorer Haplo, having completed his mission in Arianus, arrives on Pryan, a vast jungle world without visible sky or horizon, on a reconnaissance mission for his Lord. There he encounters the Quindiniar family, minor nobles among a struggling human community, and becomes entangled with a group of refugees fleeing tytans, mysterious and immensely powerful creatures that are systematically destroying the world's scattered civilizations. As Haplo travels with the Quindiniars and their companions across Pryan's endless jungle, hiding his own agenda while offering his considerable skills to their cause, the group works together to uncover the origins of the tytans and the secrets of a world whose ancient magical technology has fallen into disrepair, racing to find a way to survive an accelerating, seemingly unstoppable threat.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Death Gate Cycle
- Series: The Death Gate Cycle core; position 2 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 2 of 7: previous Dragon Wing (1990) · next Fire Sea (1991)
Sources
← The Death Gate Cycle dossier · All universes
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