The Skull Throne
core novel 2015 The Demon Cycle
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.11 (33,485 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 681 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345531483 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The Skull Throne is the fourth novel in the Demon Cycle. It opens in the immediate aftermath of the previous book, after Arlen Bales, the Warded Man, and his rival claimant to the title of Deliverer, Ahmann Jardir, went over a precipice together rather than settle their duel, leaving both men's fates unknown. With Krasia's Skull Throne now empty, Jardir's first wife Inevera works to keep his sons from tearing the desert nation apart in a struggle over succession, while in the north the healer Leesha Paper and the traveling minstrel Rojer Inn try to forge an alliance between the duchies of Angiers and Miln against the threat of Krasian conquest.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Demon Cycle
- Series: The Demon Cycle core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Peter V. Brett
Notes
- From the series record (The Demon Cycle): Published in the UK in 2008 as The Painted Man; The Warded Man is the US title of the same book.
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 Demon Cycle: position 4 of 5: previous The Daylight War (2013) · next The Core (2017)
Sources
← The Demon Cycle dossier · All universes
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