Worldbinder
core novel 2007 The Runelords
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.76 (3,372 ratings, collected 2026-09-02) |
| Page count | 336 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765316653 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
Worldbinder follows Fallion, son of Gaborn, as he attempts to use his inherited abilities to restore a cursed tree sapling entrusted to him, an act intended to heal rather than harm. Instead, the ritual goes catastrophically wrong, accidentally merging his own world with a parallel version of itself, setting off a chain of magical consequences that neither Fallion nor those around him fully understand at first. As the two worlds begin to bleed into one another, familiar people and places are thrown into unfamiliar and dangerous configurations, forcing Fallion to reckon with a crisis of his own making that reaches far beyond anything his father faced. The novel opens a new arc within the Runelords series centered on the unstable, merging worlds and the disorientation this creates for characters old and new.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Runelords
- Series: The Runelords (main sequence) core; position 6 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: David Farland
Notes
- From the series record (The Runelords (main sequence)): The eight-book main numbered sequence (1998-2009), confirmed against publisher/retailer first-edition records; closes the saga's original story arc.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Runelords (main sequence): position 6 of 8: previous Sons of the Oak (2006) · next The Wyrmling Horde (2008)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Runelords
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Wolverton_bibliography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Wolverton
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