The Daylight War
core novel 2013 The Demon Cycle
Record
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.20 (66,478 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 639 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593724293 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
The Daylight War is the third novel in the Demon Cycle, continuing the story of two men each hailed by his own followers as the Deliverer prophesied to save humanity from the demons that rise every night. Arlen Bales, the tattooed Warded Man, publicly denies the role despite the devotion he inspires, while traveling and fighting alongside Renna Tanner, a woman from his past whose growing use of demon-derived magic threatens to consume her. In the south, Ahmann Jardir has already claimed the title of Deliverer and united the desert tribes of Krasia behind him, his ascent engineered in large part by his First Wife Inevera, a priestess whose demon-bone magic lets her glimpse the future even as her deeper motives stay hidden.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Demon Cycle
- Series: The Demon Cycle core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Peter V. Brett
Notes
- From the series record (The Demon Cycle): Published in the UK in 2008 as The Painted Man; The Warded Man is the US title of the same book.
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 Demon Cycle: position 3 of 5: previous The Desert Spear (2010) · next The Skull Throne (2015)
Sources
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