The Summon Stone
core novel 2016 The Three Worlds Cycle
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.77 (303 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316386876 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Merdrun, a cruel race embittered by an ancient betrayal and blooded by thousands of years of war, are gathering on Cinnabar, a barren worldlet in the void. On Santhenar their long-hidden summon stone is waking, corrupting good people and bad alike and turning arcane places into magically polluted wastelands, and if it is not destroyed it will gather enough power to open a portal and call the Merdrun through. In a nightmare, nine-year-old Sulien, the gifted daughter of Karan and Llian, sees the Merdrun leader Gergrig, and he sees her; he orders her killed to protect the secret and brings the invasion forward to the night of the triple moons. Llian must find and destroy the summon stone before then, though he has no idea where it is, and soon, framed for murder, he and Karan are on the run.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Three Worlds Cycle
- Series: The Gates of Good and Evil core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ian Irvine
Notes
- From the series record (The Gates of Good and Evil): The fourth Three Worlds series and the direct sequel to The View from the Mirror: Karan and Llian, and their gifted daughter Sulien, against the Merdrun, warriors from the void called to Santhenar by a waking summon stone. The final volume is presented as concluding the whole Three Worlds sequence.
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 Gates of Good and Evil: position 1 of 4: next The Fatal Gate (2017)
- Internal chronology, within The Three Worlds Cycle: position 4 of 15: previous The Fate of the Fallen (2006) · next The Tower on the Rift (1998)
Sources
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