Woven of Shadow

Name: Woven of Shadow
Author: David Farland

expanded novella The Runelords

Record

Original language	EN
Work type	novella
Canon status	expanded

Synopsis

Presented as the fifth chapter in David Farland's new prequel saga of the Runelords, this story follows Dval, the Inkarran protagonist introduced in the saga's earlier installments, as he continues to grapple with the consequences of his rise to power. When Dval realizes that his king will still not grant him the respect and honor he has earned despite his earlier sacrifices and victories, he comes to a turning point: rather than continue seeking recognition from a ruler unwilling to give it, he decides to take the fate of the world into his own hands. The story builds on the earlier tales' groundwork of Dval's conflicts with the Toth and Mad King Harrill, pushing his personal ambitions and grievances toward a larger confrontation that will shape the wider world of this earlier Runelords era.

Where it sits

Universe: The Runelords
Series: The Runelords: Prequels expanded; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
Author: David Farland

Notes

From the series record (The Runelords: Prequels): Four short prequels, explicitly numbered and marketed as prequels by the author's own site, exploring earlier history in the Runelords setting outside the main numbered sequence. Exact individual publication years were not confidently pinned down in this admission's research and are left unrecorded rather than guessed.

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 Runelords: Prequels: position 4 of 4: previous The King's Dispatcher (2016)

Sources

← The Runelords dossier · All universes

Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.