Tetrarch
core novel 2002 The Three Worlds Cycle
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.03 (1,756 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780648187097 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Aachim have come to Santhenar through the opening Tiaan made, with an irresistible fleet of battle constructs, and their embittered leader, Vithis, demands half the world as the price of peace. Santhenar, on its knees after a hundred years of war with the lyrinx, is in no position to refuse, but even if the Council of Scrutators gives way, nothing seems likely to satisfy Vithis's thirst for vengeance. Tiaan, feeling utterly betrayed by the voice that led her to Tirthrax, is hunted through the abandoned Aachim city by Nish, the scrutator's apprentice spy, who burns at her rejection of his advances, blames her for the invasion and has sworn to redeem himself by bringing her to justice. Her geomancy, meanwhile, holds the key to a power that could save humanity or destroy it, and every faction on the world wants her for it.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Three Worlds Cycle
- Series: The Well of Echoes core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ian Irvine
Notes
- From the series record (The Well of Echoes): The second Three Worlds quartet, set some two centuries after The View from the Mirror: Santhenar at war with the lyrinx, winged predators from the Void, fought with crystal-driven clankers; the crystal-worker and geomancer Tiaan, the apprentice spy Nish, the artisan Irisis and the scrutator Xervish Flydd. Book three is published in the United States and in later editions as Scrutator.
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 Well of Echoes: position 2 of 4: previous Geomancer (2001) · next Alchymist (2003)
- Internal chronology, within The Three Worlds Cycle: position 6 of 15: previous The Tower on the Rift (1998) · next The Curse on the Chosen (2007)
Sources
- Ian Irvine (official site)
- Worlds Without End
- Apple Books (publisher description)
- Ian Irvine (official booklist)
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