Forge of Darkness
core novel 2012 Malazan
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.15 (10,348 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 662 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765323569 |
Synopsis
The first novel of Steven Erikson's Kharkanas Trilogy is a prequel to the Malazan Book of the Fallen set roughly three hundred thousand years earlier, in the Age of Darkness within the realm of Kurald Galain. The great warrior Vatha Urusander is publicly championed by his supporters to marry the goddess Mother Dark, but her chosen consort, Lord Draconus, stands firmly in the way of that ambition, and the resulting rivalry between the two men, and the factions gathering behind each of them, threatens to plunge the entire realm into a civil war whose consequences will echo forward through hundreds of thousands of years of Malazan history still to come.
Where it sits
- Universe: Malazan
- Series: The Kharkanas Trilogy core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Steven Erikson
Notes
- From the series record (The Kharkanas Trilogy): Two published; Walk in Shadow being written (as of Jan 2026).
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 Kharkanas Trilogy: position 1 of 2: next Fall of Light (2016)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kharkanas_Trilogy
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