The Death of Chaos
core novel 1996 The Saga of Recluce
Record
| First published | 1996 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.01 (9,180 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 629 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312857219 |
Synopsis
The Death of Chaos, the fifth novel in L. E. Modesitt Jr.'s Saga of Recluce, picks up with Lerris, protagonist of The Magic of Recluce, who has since built a quieter life for himself as a carpenter in the town of Kyphros, having settled down after his earlier dangergeld journey and training in order magic. That peace is broken when the distant Empire of Hamor sends invading forces across the ocean toward Candar, driven by ambitions of global conquest that threaten to upend the fragile balance between Order and Chaos across the known world and drag Lerris back into a fight he had hoped to leave behind.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Saga of Recluce
- Series: The Saga of Recluce core; position 5 of 26 in the series' recorded order
- Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Notes
- From the series record (The Saga of Recluce): One continuous, internally chronological world across many reading-order sub-arcs; the whole published run to date is Core Canon, per the author's own single ordered list. Ongoing; a further volume (Last of the First) is announced for 2026 and is not yet published, so it is not registered (Constitution Article 2).
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 Saga of Recluce: position 5 of 26: previous The Order War (1996) · next Fall of Angels (1997)
Sources
- L.E. Modesitt, Jr. official site: The Saga of Recluce
- https://www.travelinlibrarian.info/recluce/recluce/deathof.html
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