The Destiny of the Dead
core novel 2008 The Three Worlds Cycle
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.17 (750 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781841494739 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Nish, his battered little troop and his few remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin by the God-Emperor's great army, with a choice between humiliating surrender to his father and a suicidal fight to the death. He has to fight, and somehow win, because Santhenar itself is in peril: Stilkeen, an all-powerful shape-shifting being from the Void, has come to recover the stolen chthonic fire that once bound its physical and spirit aspects together, and wants revenge for the mortal insult done to it. And it may already be too late, for the chthonic fire has escaped its casket and is eating away the Antarctic lands as it once devoured the planet Aachan. Even if Nish defeats his father, there may be no way to stop the fire, or Stilkeen, before the whole world is consumed. The trilogy's conclusion.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Three Worlds Cycle
- Series: The Song of the Tears core; position 3 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 3 of 3: previous The Curse on the Chosen (2007)
- Internal chronology, within The Three Worlds Cycle: position 11 of 15: previous Alchymist (2003) · next The Perilous Tower (2020)
Sources
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