Series
Elemental Masters
Mercedes Lackey, Cedric Johnson, Dayle A. Dermatis, Diana L. Paxson, Elisabeth Waters, Elizabeth Vaughan, Fiona Patton, Gail Sanders, Jody Lynn Nye, Kristin Schwengel, Michael Z. Williamson, Michele Lang, Ron Collins, Rosemary Edghill, Samuel C. Conway, Tanya Huff, Ben Ohlander, Jennifer Brozek, Louisa Swann, Rebecca Fox & Stephanie Shaver · 19 novels · 11 novelettes · 27 short stories · 2 anthologies · 1995–2025
Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series reimagines classic fairy tales in various historical settings, with mages who each command one of the four elements — fire, water, earth, or air. The opening novel, The Fire Rose, retells Beauty and the Beast around a fire mage trapped in a werewolf-like curse; later volumes retell other tales and, from Elemental Magic on, bring in numerous co-authors and short-story contributors across more than twenty books.
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By decade
- 1990s3
- 2000s6
- 2010s45
- 2020s5
Shape
19 novels · 11 novelettes · 27 short stories · 2 anthologies
21 authors
reads like:historical fantasywitcheseurope19th centuryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 68% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book19 of 59 works carry a tone
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- Unnatural Issuedarkest
- Reserved for the Catbrightest · most intense
- The Gates of Sleepcalmest