Stronghold
core novel 1991 Dragon Prince
Record
| First published | 1991 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (12,100 ratings, collected 2026-08-21) |
| Page count | 592 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780886774820 |
Synopsis
Stronghold opens the Dragon Star trilogy with the Desert and the wider continent thrown into crisis by a sudden, large-scale invasion. High Prince Rohan, his wife Sioned, their son Pol, and Andry of Goddess Keep are caught off guard as an unfamiliar foreign army lands and drives inland, its origins and goals a mystery to every princedom it strikes. The assault falls with particular weight on the Desert, Rohan's own homeland, forcing him and Pol to organize its defense while allied rulers scramble to protect their own territories against the same unknown enemy. As the fighting spreads, the defenders begin to notice a peculiar pattern in the invaders' behavior: an evident dread of the dragons that inhabit the Desert, a fear the characters start to suspect could be turned into a strategic advantage against a foe no one yet understands.
Where it sits
- Universe: Dragon Prince
- Series: Dragon Star core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Melanie Rawn
Notes
- From the series record (Dragon Star): Direct sequel trilogy, centred on Rohan's son Pol; Skybowl was a Locus Award nominee, Best Fantasy Novel, 1994.
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 Dragon Star: position 1 of 3: next The Dragon Token (1993)
Sources
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