Series
Deepgate Codex
Alan Campbell · 3 novels · 1 novella · 2006–2012
Scar Night opens Alan Campbell's Deepgate Codex in a city suspended by chains over a bottomless abyss, ruled by a corrupt church devoted to a fallen, imprisoned god, where an angel named Dill and a rogue assassin become entangled in a plot threatening the whole city's foundations. The series builds a dark, unusually literal fallen-world cosmology across four novels of grim, blood-soaked fantasy. It was published between 2006 and 2012.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Deepgate Codex 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
- 2000s3
- 2010s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella
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 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Damnation for Beginnersdarkest · calmest
- Scar Nightbrightest · most intense