Legion of Thunder
core novel 1999 Orcs
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.58 (804 ratings, collected 2026-10-29) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780575068711 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
War is tearing Maras-Dantia apart: the elder races are fighting the human invaders, and the humans themselves are split into two warring sects. Stryke and his Wolverines press on with their hunt for the five instrumentalities, the ancient artefacts that could secure the future of the orcs and, though the band does not know it, of every race in the land, old and new. The search grows more urgent and more dangerous with every step. As their enemies close in from all sides and the band’s troopers fall one by one to foes stranger than anything they had imagined, Stryke stands to lose not only his warband but the future of his people and of the land itself.
Where it sits
- Universe: Orcs
- Series: Orcs: First Blood core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Stan Nicholls
Notes
- From the series record (Orcs: First Blood): First trilogy, Gollancz, 1999 to 2000.
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 Orcs: First Blood: position 2 of 3: previous Bodyguard of Lightning (1999) · next Warriors of the Tempest (2000)
- Internal chronology, within Orcs: position 3 of 6: previous Weapons of Magical Destruction (2008) · next Army of Shadows (2009)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Orcs: First Blood
- AbeBooks: Legion of Thunder, Gollancz 1999 first edition
- Hachette UK: Legion of Thunder
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