Serpent Mage
core novel 1992 The Death Gate Cycle
Record
| First published | 1992 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (22,647 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 414 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553561401 |
Synopsis
Alfred, a Sartan who has spent years searching among the four worlds, finally locates a surviving community of his people on Chelestra, an artificial water world enclosed within a shell around a sun of ice. His arrival forces him into an uneasy alliance with Haplo, the Patryn agent who has accompanied him from Abarrach, even as the ancient enmity between their two peoples threatens to resurface. Together they must navigate a fragile peace among the water world's human, elven, and dwarven inhabitants, whose societies are already strained by the environment's demands, while an ancient and powerful threat native to Chelestra looms over all of them, transcending the long-standing rivalry between Sartan and Patryn and forcing former enemies to consider working together.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Death Gate Cycle
- Series: The Death Gate Cycle core; position 4 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Margaret Weis
- Author: Tracy Hickman
Notes
- From the series record (The Death Gate Cycle): Complete seven-book sequence, a separate co-authored world from Weis & Hickman's Dragonlance.
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 The Death Gate Cycle: position 4 of 7: previous Fire Sea (1991) · next The Hand of Chaos (1993)
Sources
← The Death Gate Cycle dossier · All universes
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