Series
Cradle
Will Wight · 12 novels · 1 short story · 1 collection · 2016–2024
Will Wight's Cradle series follows Wei Shi Lindon, born a weak 'Unsouled' forbidden from practicing the cultivation-based sacred arts, who defies that ban to grow in power on a world called Cradle -- one of many parallel worlds, or Iterations, in Wight's shared multiverse, each with a distinct magic system built on similar underlying principles, drawing on xianxia and wuxia traditions. The series runs 13 books, from Unsouled (2016) to Threshold (2025), following Lindon through escalating trials.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Cradle at the centre, 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
- 2010s8
- 2020s6
Shape
12 novels · 1 short story · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:epic fantasywizardssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 79% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book14 of 14 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Skysworndarkest · most intense
- Threshold: Stories from Cradlebrightest · calmest