Series
Birthgrave
Tanith Lee · 3 novels · 1975–1978
Tanith Lee's Birthgrave trilogy (The Birthgrave, Vazkor Son of Vazkor, Quest for the White Witch, 1975-1978) opens with an amnesiac woman waking inside a volcano with no memory of who she is, and follows her journey through a brutal, quasi-medieval world in search of her identity, wielding strange powers she doesn't understand along the way. She eventually learns she is one of the last of the Old Ones, an ancient, nearly extinct people, and must reckon with the harm her own vanished civilization once did.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1970s3
Shape
3 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasyrevengesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Birthgravedarkest · calmest
- Quest for the White Witchbrightest · most intense