Series
Dragaeran Empire
Steven Brust, Bill Scammell, Christine Ivey, Evan Jamieson, Lisa Hunt, Mark Bloom, Richard S. Meyers & Walter H. Hunt · 25 novels · 2 short stories · 1983–2024
Brokedown Palace is Steven Brust's standalone novel set outside his main Vlad Taltos series but within the same Dragaera world, following four brothers in the human kingdom of Fenario after one of them, a volatile king, gravely wounds another. Brust weaves in interspersed folklore chapters drawing on Hungarian tradition, using the family's crumbling castle as a recurring symbol for both a body and a disintegrating kingdom. The Baron of Magister Valley is a later, separate standalone entry in the same wider Dragaera setting rather than a direct sequel.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
- Vlad Taltos(18 works)
- Khaavren Romances(6 works)
- The Viscount of Adrilankha(4 works)
- Omnibus editions(6 editions)
Map
Dragaeran Empire at the centre, 3 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
- 1980s6
- 1990s6
- 2000s7
- 2010s5
- 2020s3
Shape
25 novels · 2 short stories
8 authors
reads like:fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 88% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book25 of 27 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Brokedown Palacedarkest
- Jhegaalabrightest
- Tecklacalmest
- Issolamost intense