The Mage-Fire War
core novel 2019 The Saga of Recluce
Record
| First published | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.29 (1,320 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 544 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250207821 |
Synopsis
The Mage-Fire War, the twenty-second volume of the Saga of Recluce, opens as Beltur and his companions, including the healer Jessyla and the mage Lhadoraak, are driven out of Axalt by prejudice against practitioners of chaos magic. The Duchess of Montgren offers them an unusual second chance: to serve as councilors of Haven, a declining, mageless town whose population has dwindled and whose healing house has closed for lack of funds and staff. With only a single company of soldiers for protection, Beltur and his companions must restore order to Haven, reopen its institutions, and collect overdue tariffs, all while smugglers exploit the region to dodge duties owed to neighboring lands. Looming over their efforts is the growing strength of Hydlen, whose army marches alongside white mages of its own, leaving the newly appointed councilors little room for error.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Saga of Recluce
- Series: The Saga of Recluce core; position 22 of 26 in the series' recorded order
- Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Notes
- From the series record (The Saga of Recluce): One continuous, internally chronological world across many reading-order sub-arcs; the whole published run to date is Core Canon, per the author's own single ordered list. Ongoing; a further volume (Last of the First) is announced for 2026 and is not yet published, so it is not registered (Constitution Article 2).
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 Saga of Recluce: position 22 of 26: previous Outcasts of Order (2018) · next Fairhaven Rising (2021)
Sources
- L.E. Modesitt, Jr. official site: The Saga of Recluce
- https://reactormag.com/read-the-first-three-chapters-of-l-e-modesitt-the-mage-fire-war/
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