The Witchwood Crown
core novel 2017 Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / Osten Ard
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.18 (6,315 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| Page count | 733 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781473603202 |
Synopsis
The Witchwood Crown, opening the Last King of Osten Ard sequence, is set more than three decades after the events of the original trilogy, with Simon and Miriamele now ruling as king and queen over a realm that appears at peace but is beginning to show cracks. Old companions have grown distant, faded, or fallen to darker influences, and divisions within the kingdom threaten the unity their rule was built on. Most alarmingly, the Norns, the ancient and immortal people believed defeated at the end of the earlier war, are stirring again in the north, beginning to mobilize toward reclaiming lands that humans have held since their downfall, setting the stage for a new conflict to grow out of the peace the previous generation fought so hard to win.
Where it sits
- Universe: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / Osten Ard
- Series: The Last King of Osten Ard core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tad Williams
Notes
- From the series record (The Last King of Osten Ard): Planned as trilogy; concluding volume split (2021) into two, complete at four books (2024).
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 Last King of Osten Ard: position 1 of 4: next Empire of Grass (2019)
Sources
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