Silverthorn
core novel 1985 Riftwar Cycle
Record
| First published | 1985 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (70,340 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 432 |
| First-edition ISBN | 0-385-19210-X |
| First-edition date | 1985-06 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
Silverthorn is the second novel in the Riftwar Saga and is set some years after Magician, opening as Arutha, the newly installed Prince of Krondor, prepares for his wedding to Anita while facing a string of mysterious assassination attempts against him. On his wedding day an assassin's poisoned bolt intended for Arutha strikes Anita instead, and the poison, drawn from a plant called silverthorn that grows only in dangerous moredhel territory, leaves her life hanging by a thread. With prophecy suggesting that Arutha alone stands against the rising threat of the moredhel leader Murmandamus, he must set out to find both an antidote for Anita and answers about the forces conspiring against the Kingdom, even as Murmandamus prepares an invasion.
Where it sits
- Universe: Riftwar Cycle
- Series: The Riftwar Saga core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Raymond E. Feist
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 1986: finalist; Locus reader-poll placement, ranked 11.
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 Riftwar Saga: position 2 of 3: previous Magician (1982) · next A Darkness at Sethanon (1986)
- Internal chronology, within Riftwar Cycle: position 6 of 30: previous Daughter of the Empire (1987) · next A Darkness at Sethanon (1986)
Sources
- Crydee.com, Official Raymond E. Feist site
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riftwar_Cycle
- https://www.isfdb.org
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorn_(novel)
- https://www.sfadb.com/Raymond_E_Feist
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