Shadowrise

Name: Shadowrise
Author: Tad Williams
ISBN: 9780756405496

core novel 2010 Shadowmarch

Record

First published	2010
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.03 (6,972 ratings, collected 2026-08-19)
Page count	672
First-edition ISBN	9780756405496
Internal chronology	3

Synopsis

Shadowrise is the third novel in the Shadowmarch quartet, following Shadowplay. As the kingdom of Southmarch comes under growing threat from the Shadowlands, Barrick Eddon, heir to the March throne, crosses into that perilous realm to honor a pact with the Twilight people that may be the kingdom's only hope of avoiding full-scale war. His twin sister Briony, meanwhile, faces betrayal at the royal court of Tessis and is forced to flee with the aid of an unlikely ally. In Southmarch itself, Captain Ferras Vansen tries to convince the formidable Qar commander Yasammez that the fragile peace between their peoples still holds, even as the city comes under siege from multiple directions and old truths about the long war between humans and Qar begin to surface.

Where it sits

Universe: Shadowmarch
Series: Shadowmarch core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
Author: Tad Williams

Notes

From the series record (Shadowmarch): A complete 4-book epic fantasy tetralogy, Tad Williams's 2nd universe in this canon, confirmed genuinely separate from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / Osten Ard (different world, characters, and continuity).

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 Shadowmarch: position 3 of 4: previous Shadowplay (2007) · next Shadowheart (2010)

Sources

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