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The Lost Gate

core novel 2011 The Mither Mages

Record

First published2011
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating3.82 (30,090 ratings, collected 2026-10-04)
Page count384
First-edition ISBN9780765326577
Internal chronology1

Synopsis

Danny North grew up in a compound in the Virginia hills among fairies, ghosts, talking animals and gods who called up wind and rain: the North family, one of the Families of Westil, mages exiled to Earth some thirteen centuries ago when the trickster Loki closed the Great Gates between the worlds and left their powers to dwindle through the generations. Danny alone seems to have no magic at all, a "drekka", until he discovers he can make gates, which puts him in mortal danger: a gatemage is the one talent the Families have sworn to kill on sight, because whoever reopens a Great Gate will restore his Family's full power and rule over the others. He runs, learning his gift on the streets and among ordinary teenagers, while on Westil a gatemage called Wad wakes from a long sleep inside a tree with no memory of who he is.

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Notes

  • From the series record (The Mither Mages): Orson Scott Card's contemporary fantasy of the Families of Westil, mages exiled to Earth and remembered by humans as the old gods, their powers dwindling since Loki closed the Great Gates thirteen centuries ago, and of Danny North, the gatemage who can reopen them.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

  • Reading order, within the series The Mither Mages: position 1 of 3: next The Gate Thief (2013)

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