Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

core novel 1978 The Birthgrave Trilogy

Record

First published	1978
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	3.67 (662 ratings, collected 2026-08-27)
First-edition ISBN	9780879973506

Synopsis

Vazkor, Son of Vazkor, published by Tanith Lee in 1978, is the second novel of the Birthgrave Trilogy. Tuvek is a young man of unusual strength raised among a barbarian tribe by the chief Ettook and his wife Tathra, unaware for years that he is not their natural son. He is, in truth, the child of the amnesiac protagonist of the first novel and the warlord Vazkor, switched at birth and hidden among the tribespeople, and as he grows he proves so far superior to his peers in body and instinct that he is marked as an outsider who cannot even bear the tribe's ritual scars. When Tuvek eventually learns the truth of his parentage and the psychic powers he has inherited, the novel, framed as his own memoir, follows him from tribal life toward the sophisticated ruined city of Eshkorek, once devastated by his father's conquests.

Where it sits

• Universe: The Birthgrave Trilogy
• Series: The Birthgrave Trilogy core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Tanith Lee

Notes

• From the series record (The Birthgrave Trilogy): Tanith Lee's debut trilogy, an early and influential entry in sword-and-sorcery fantasy with a shapeshifting, amnesiac protagonist.

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 Birthgrave Trilogy: position 2 of 3: previous The Birthgrave (1975) · next Quest for the White Witch (1978)

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birthgrave
• http://mporcius.blogspot.com/2021/07/vazkor-son-of-vazkor-by-tanith-lee.html

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