The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend

core novel 1993 The Drenai Saga

Record

First published	1993
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.37 (13,117 ratings, collected 2026-09-12)
Page count	334
First-edition ISBN	9780345407993
Internal chronology	4

Synopsis

A slaver raid led by the ruthless Harib Ka and the swordsman Collan devastates the young Druss's home village, killing or enslaving nearly everyone there, including his wife Rowena. Druss sets out alone to rescue her, eventually discovering that she possesses unexpected mystical abilities and has been taken to a distant, hostile land far from anything he knows. Joined along the way by allies such as the seasoned hunter Shadak and the charming poet Sieben, Druss pursues the slavers across foreign territory, gradually becoming entangled in a wider military conflict in the kingdom of Ventria that tests both his growing legend and his singular devotion to Rowena.

Where it sits

• Universe: The Drenai Saga
• Series: The Drenai Saga core; position 6 of 11 in the series' recorded order
• Author: David Gemmell

Notes

• From the series record (The Drenai Saga): Publication order differs sharply from internal chronology (recorded per book in internal chronology).

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 Drenai Saga: position 6 of 11: previous Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf (1992) · next The Legend of Deathwalker (1996)
• Internal chronology, within The Drenai Saga: position 4 of 11: previous Hero in the Shadows (2000) · next The Legend of Deathwalker (1996)

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gemmell
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Chronicles_of_Druss_the_Legend

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