The Swords of Night and Day
core novel 2004 The Drenai Saga
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.35 (9,978 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 639 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345458346 |
| Internal chronology | 11 |
Synopsis
A millennium after the death of the legendary warrior Skilgannon the Damned, he is mysteriously resurrected in a world that has changed almost beyond recognition, and finds himself drawn into a new conflict that is not, at first, truly his own. Struggling with profound displacement and grief for the vanished world he once knew, Skilgannon must find a place for himself in a Drenai realm now transformed by the rise of Jiamads, fearsome hybrid fusions of beast and man bred specifically for war. As old skills meet an unfamiliar new age, Skilgannon is forced to decide what, if anything, still matters to him in this unfamiliar future.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Drenai Saga
- Series: The Drenai Saga core; position 11 of 11 in the series' recorded order
- Author: David Gemmell
Notes
- Set roughly a millennium after the rest.
- From the series record (The Drenai Saga): Publication order differs sharply from internal chronology (recorded per book in internal chronology).
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 Drenai Saga: position 11 of 11: previous White Wolf (2003)
- Internal chronology, within The Drenai Saga: position 11 of 11: previous Winter Warriors (1997)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gemmell
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swords_of_Night_and_Day
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