The Judging Eye
core novel 2009 The Second Apocalypse
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (7,392 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 437 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781590202920 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Set twenty years after the events of the Prince of Nothing trilogy, The Judging Eye finds Anasûrimbor Kellhus now ruling the Three Seas as Aspect-Emperor, having launched the Great Ordeal, a vast military campaign marching against the ancient Consult and its stronghold at Golgotterath. Away from the campaign, the exiled sorcerer Drusas Achamian pursues his own long-obsessive investigation into Kellhus's true origins and the truth behind his rise to power, aided by companions including Kellhus's own step-daughter Mimara. As the Great Ordeal advances into increasingly hostile and unfamiliar territory, Achamian's separate quest for the truth runs on a collision course with the empire Kellhus has built on the foundations laid by the earlier war.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Second Apocalypse
- Series: The Aspect-Emperor core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: R. Scott Bakker
Notes
- From the series record (The Aspect-Emperor): Completed tetralogy, set 20 years after The Prince of Nothing.
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 Aspect-Emperor: position 1 of 4: next The White-Luck Warrior (2011)
- Internal chronology, within The Second Apocalypse: position 4 of 7: previous The Thousandfold Thought (2006) · next The White-Luck Warrior (2011)
Sources
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