The Curse on the Chosen
core novel 2007 The Three Worlds Cycle
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.05 (948 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781841494715 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The allies are trapped on Mistmurk Mountain and the God-Emperor guards every way out. Their one chance of freedom is for young Maelys to confess to a crime she has not committed, though doing so will turn all her friends against her. Even if they escape through the perilous shadow realm, Jal-Nish's armies will hunt them to the ends of the world, so Nish, the old sorcerer Flydd and Maelys have no choice but to go to the Tower of a Thousand Steps on the frozen Isle of Noom, to seek the help of the implacable Numinator, who controlled the world for a hundred and fifty years for an unknown and terrible purpose. On that tragic journey they uncover a greater and deadlier secret: a folly that has shaped life and death across the Three Worlds for more than three thousand years and now threatens to consume them all.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Three Worlds Cycle
- Series: The Song of the Tears core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ian Irvine
Notes
- From the series record (The Song of the Tears): The third Three Worlds series, set ten years after The Well of Echoes, with some of its surviving characters: Nish against his father, the God-Emperor Jal-Nish Hlar, who rules the world through the two sorcerous quicksilver tears, Gatherer and Reaper. The first book was originally published in Australia as Torments of the Traitor.
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 Song of the Tears: position 2 of 3: previous The Fate of the Fallen (2006) · next The Destiny of the Dead (2008)
- Internal chronology, within The Three Worlds Cycle: position 7 of 15: previous Tetrarch (2002) · next The Fatal Gate (2017)
Sources
← The Three Worlds Cycle dossier · All universes
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