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Wolfblade

core novel 2004 The Hythrun Chronicles

Record

First published2004
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.07 (3,848 ratings, collected 2026-10-07)
First-edition ISBN9780732278908
Internal chronology1

Synopsis

Marla Wolfblade of Hythria is determined to restore her family's great name, but conspirators surround her: her brother Lernen, the High Prince, is a weak and dissolute man who cannot even guarantee an heir, and the sorcerer Alija Eaglespike plots to seize the throne for her own house. Marla, a sixteen-year-old princess whose only value is as a bride, is handed a slave, Elezaar the Dwarf, a small man with big secrets, who begins to teach her the Rules of Gaining and Wielding Power. The first novel of the Wolfblade trilogy, set a generation before the Demon Child books, follows her transformation from political pawn to political player, and the birth of her son Damin, the warlord of the earlier trilogy.

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Notes

  • From the series record (Wolfblade): The prequel trilogy (2004-2005): Marla Wolfblade of Hythria, a princess bartered as a bride, learns the Rules of Gaining and Wielding Power from the slave Elezaar and makes herself the power behind the throne, for the sake of her son Damin, the warlord of the Demon Child books.

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 Wolfblade: position 1 of 3: next Warrior (2005)
  • Internal chronology, within The Hythrun Chronicles: position 2 of 8: previous Medalon (2000) · next The Lyre Thief (2016)

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