In the Field Marshal's Shadow
collection 2015 The Powder Mage
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | collection |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780996232333 |
Synopsis
This entry in the Powder Mage Universe is a short-story collection rather than a single continuous narrative, gathering five tales connected to the wider Powder Mage world, including one previously unpublished story. The collection follows an ensemble of characters familiar from the main trilogy, among them Taniel, Ka-poel, Vlora, Tamas, and Olem, across a range of settings that span from the rough streets of the city of Adopest to the remote swamps of Fatrasta. Each story stands largely on its own, offering glimpses into different corners of the setting's magic, politics, and conflict rather than advancing one unified plot. Read together, the pieces flesh out the wider Powder Mage Universe surrounding the core novels, giving readers additional perspectives on its magic-using soldiers, spies, and civilians caught between empires, without requiring a single throughline to connect them.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Powder Mage
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Brian McClellan
Notes
- Collects five previously-published Powder Mage Trilogy-era novellas/short fiction in one volume.
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 Powder Mage (standalone work): position 8 of 13: previous The Autumn Republic (2015) · next Siege of Tilpur (2015)
Sources
← The Powder Mage dossier · All universes
Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.