The Mageborn Traitor
core novel 1997 Exiles
Record
| First published | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.16 (6,966 ratings, collected 2026-10-04) |
| Page count | 800 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780886777302 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Picking up where The Ruins of Ambrai ended, the second Exiles novel finds the three sisters still set against one another in the aftermath of the war that ended the old order. Cailet, now the Mage Captal, rebuilds the Mage Guardians in a world short of trained mages; Sarra, from her seat on the Council, pushes Lenfell's rigid matriarchy toward reform faster than it can bear; and Glenin, among the Lords of Malerris, bides her time and raises her son to the destiny their order has planned for him. Across many storylines, the novel follows the next generation and the strains that rapid change puts on a society built on old wrongs, until a betrayal from within Cailet's own circle of Mages unravels much of what she has built, and a secret long kept by the Ambrai family becomes the hinge of the conflict.
Where it sits
- Universe: Exiles
- Series: Exiles core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Melanie Rawn
Notes
- From the series record (Exiles): Melanie Rawn's planned trilogy set on Lenfell, a world colonised by persecuted Mageborns and ruled by a rigid matriarchy, following the three Ambrai sisters raised on opposite sides of the war between the Mage Guardians and the Lords of Malerris. Two volumes published; the third, The Captal's Tower, has been announced for decades and never appeared.
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 Exiles: position 2 of 2: previous The Ruins of Ambrai (1994)
Sources
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