Kings of the Wyld
core novel 2017 The Band
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.26 (71,669 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 502 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316362474 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Kings of the Wyld, the first novel in The Band, follows Clay "Slowhand" Cooper, a retired mercenary now living a quiet life as a town watchman years after his adventuring days ended. His old bandmate Gabriel "Golden" Gabe arrives asking him to help reassemble their once-famous mercenary band, Saga, whose members were treated something like rock stars in their heyday. Gabriel's daughter Rose is trapped in Castia, a city under siege by an overwhelming horde of monsters led by the ancient enemy Lastleaf, and Clay reluctantly agrees to help track down their other scattered, now-aging former bandmates, including the wizard Arcandius Moog, the once-rogue king Matrick Skulldrummer, and the long-frozen warrior Ganelon, in order to fight their way across dangerous territory to reach her.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Band
- Series: The Band core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Nicholas Eames
Notes
- From the series record (The Band): The founding two novels of a comic sword-and-sorcery trilogy about a retired band of monster-hunting mercenaries; a third novel, Outlaw Empire, has been announced but not yet published, so it is not catalogued here per this project's standing rule against unpublished works.
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 Band: position 1 of 2: next Bloody Rose (2018)
Sources
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