Lord of the Fire Lands
core novel 1999 The King's Blades
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (2,270 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780380974610 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Raider and Wasp have spent five years training to become Blades, magically bound swordsmen. They turn down an offer to serve the king of Chivial, and that refusal makes them outlaws. They flee to Baelmark, the land of the Baels, a people who have long raided Chivial, and there they find themselves in the middle of a court crisis resembling Hamlet. Flashbacks show how a Chivian duchess came to marry the king of the Baels.
Where it sits
- Universe: The King's Blades
- Series: Tales of the King's Blades core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Dave Duncan
Notes
- From the series record (Tales of the King's Blades): Novels about individual Blades of Chivial, beginning with Durendal in The Gilded Chain and ending with The Ethical Swordsman.
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 Tales of the King's Blades: position 2 of 5: previous The Gilded Chain (1998) · next Sky of Swords (2000)
- Internal chronology, within The King's Blades: position 4 of 11: previous Sir Stalwart (1999) · next Impossible Odds (2003)
Sources
- Rising Shadow, Sky of Swords
- FantasticFiction, King's Blades
- Publishers Weekly listing, Lord of the Fire Lands
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