Hawkwood's Voyage
core novel 1995 The Monarchies of God
Record
| First published | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.79 (2,116 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 384 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780575060548 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Hawkwood's Voyage opens with the catastrophic fall of the great holy city of Aekir to invading Merduk forces and the near-total destruction of the western kingdoms' finest army, a defeat that spares only a handful of survivors, chief among them the disgraced officer Corfe Cear-Inaf. As the Ramusian church responds to the disaster by launching a brutal purge against magic-users and other perceived heretics across the fractured western kingdoms, the maverick sea captain Richard Hawkwood is commissioned to sail his ship Osprey westward across an uncharted ocean in search of a fabled lost continent, a voyage funded by a nobleman with his own secret reasons for wanting explorers, and inconvenient witnesses, far from home. The two storylines, one of catastrophic land war and one of desperate oceanic exploration, begin to reveal a world in far greater danger than either man yet understands.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Monarchies of God
- Series: The Monarchies of God core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Paul Kearney
Notes
- From the series record (The Monarchies of God): A five-novel epic fantasy sequence set in a continent modelled loosely on Renaissance-era Europe, following a sea captain, kings, and a religious purge across a sustained secondary-world war.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Monarchies of God: position 1 of 5: next The Heretic Kings (1996)
Sources
- The Monarchies of God series bibliography (specialised genre-fiction site)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchies_of_God
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