The Dragon Arcana

core novel 2010 The Cardinal's Blades

Record

First published	2010
Original language	FR
First English translation	2011
Translator	Tom Clegg
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	3.84 (498 ratings, collected 2026-08-27)
First-edition ISBN	9780575107922

Synopsis

The Dragon Arcana, published by Pierre Pevel in 2010, concludes Les Lames du Cardinal. In Paris in 1633, a devastating vision seen by Soeur Beatrice d'Aussaint reveals that a dragon will burn the city to the ground, and Cardinal Richelieu's Blades are tasked with uncovering who stands behind the coming attack before it can happen. Behind the threat lies the secretive Black Claw society, which has already struck twice against the kingdom and is now moving toward a final, catastrophic blow meant to finish what its earlier plots began. Complicating the Blades' efforts to stop it, the company itself is under strain, its members divided by personal loyalties and competing responsibilities, leaving their captain to hold the group together even as deception and treachery test their unity from within.

Where it sits

• Universe: The Cardinal's Blades
• Series: Les Lames du Cardinal core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Pierre Pevel

Notes

• From the series record (Les Lames du Cardinal): Pierre Pevel's swashbuckling historical fantasy trilogy: dragons and secret agents in the France of Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu.

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 Les Lames du Cardinal: position 3 of 3: previous The Alchemist in the Shadows (2009)

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_P%C3%A9vel
• https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Pierre-Pevel/The-Dragon-Arcana.html

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