The Fate of the Fallen
core novel 2006 The Three Worlds Cycle
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.96 (1,178 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780143002499 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
After ten years of servitude in the darkest prison of his father, the maimed God-Emperor Jal-Nish Hlar, Nish is about to be released. Jal-Nish holds the two sorcerous quicksilver tears, Gatherer and Reaper, and with them controls all of the Secret Art; every opposition has been crushed, and he has begun to remake the world in his own depraved image. The oppressed peoples of Santhenar see Nish as a messianic figure, the Deliverer, because as he was dragged off to prison a decade earlier he wildly promised to return and cast his father down. But Nish is powerless and has no allies, and Jal-Nish wants him as his lieutenant, as corrupt as himself, offering him everything he ever desired; faced with the alternative of another ten years in prison, Nish is not sure he can resist. Published in Australia as Torments of the Traitor.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Three Worlds Cycle
- Series: The Song of the Tears core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ian Irvine
Notes
- Published in Australia as Torments of the Traitor (Penguin, August 2006), the ISBN recorded; The Fate of the Fallen in the UK and later editions.
- 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 1 of 3: next The Curse on the Chosen (2007)
- Internal chronology, within The Three Worlds Cycle: position 3 of 15: previous Geomancer (2001) · next The Summon Stone (2016)
Sources
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