Series
Coldfire
C. S. Friedman · 4 novels · 1 short story · 1991–2023
C. S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy is set on the human colony world of Erna, where settlers survive alongside the fae, a reality-warping force that gives physical shape to belief and fear. Opening with Black Sun Rising, it follows the uneasy partnership between a priest, Damien Vryce, and the ruthless, centuries-old sorcerer Gerald Tarrant against a shared threat neither can face alone.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Map
Coldfire at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s3
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
4 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:dark fantasygodssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Black Sun Risingdarkest · calmest
- When True Night Fallsbrightest · most intense