The Storm Lord
core novel 1976 Wars of Vis
Record
| First published | 1976 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.45 (486 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 350 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780879973612 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Storm Lord opens in the kingdom of Dorthar amid a succession crisis: the ruler known as the Storm Lord has fathered a child, Raldnor, with a Lowlander priestess shortly before his own death, making the infant the legal heir under Dortharian law, much to the fury of the ambitious Queen Val Mara, who intended the throne for her own son Amrek. When Raldnor's mother also dies, the child is smuggled far from the capital to escape the queen's murderous designs, and is raised among the Plains people with no knowledge of his royal blood, growing up feeling always subtly apart from those around him. Meanwhile, Amrek claims the throne his mother maneuvered him onto. As an adult, Raldnor is drawn into political sabotage, threats on his life and the machinations of the usurper's court as he moves, still largely unaware of his own origins, toward reclaiming the birthright that was stolen from him at birth.
Where it sits
- Universe: Wars of Vis
- Series: The Wars of Vis core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tanith Lee
Notes
- From the series record (The Wars of Vis): Completed sword-and-planet fantasy trilogy, a separate universe from Tanith Lee's already-admitted Tales from the Flat Earth.
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 Wars of Vis: position 1 of 3: next Anackire (1983)
Sources
- Reader-rating platform: The Wars of Vis series listing
- Black Gate: The Novels of Tanith Lee -- The Wars of Vis
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318583/the-storm-lord-by-tanith-lee/
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