Stormlord's Exile
core novel 2011 The Watergivers
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (2,886 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780732289317 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Shale is finally free of his greatest enemy and proclaimed Cloudmaster, but now he alone must bring life-giving rain to all the people of the Quartern, stretching his powers to the limit, and he cannot move salt water. His own highlords and waterpriests plot against him, and his Reduner brother, Sandmaster Ravard, is killing every rainlord he can find in the hope of bringing back the Time of Random Rain. Terelle, his waterpainter lover, covertly boosts his powers with her own mystical abilities, but she is compelled by the strange magic of her people and must one day leave his side, crossing the desert to the land that gave the Quartern its first stormlord. The final volume of the trilogy, which its reviewers praised for its themes of family and identity.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Watergivers
- Series: The Watergivers core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Glenda Larke
Awards (verified)
- Aurealis Award (Sara Douglass Book Series Award), 2015: won; Awarded to the Watergivers trilogy as a series; registered against its concluding volume.
- Aurealis Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2011: nominated; Finalist.
Notes
- From the series record (The Watergivers): Glenda Larke's desert fantasy of the Quartern, a land kept alive by stormlords who bring rain from the distant seas, and of Shale, an outcast with the power to become the next stormlord, and Terelle, a fugitive slave apprenticed to a painter whose art is a magic of water. Also called the Stormlord trilogy.
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 The Watergivers: position 3 of 3: previous Stormlord Rising (2010)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Glenda Larke
- Hachette Book Group (publisher)
- Hachette Book Group (publisher)
- Publishers Weekly
- Library Supply NZ (HarperCollins Australia edition record)
- Google Books (publisher's author note)
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