Series
Legends of Ethshar
Lawrence Watt-Evans · 15 novels · 3 novelettes · 8 short stories · 1 collection · 1985–2023
Ethshar is a world where magic works, but never in just one way: witchcraft, wizardry, sorcery, and warlockry all follow their own separate rules, practiced by different, often rival, kinds of magicians across the Hegemony of the Three Ethshars. Lawrence Watt-Evans sets most of his Ethshar novels as standalone stories that don't need to be read in any order, following different ordinary people -- apprentices, soldiers, merchants -- who get pulled into magical trouble. Taken together, the growing series builds one of the more thoroughly systemized magic settings in fantasy without ever losing its lighter, folk-tale tone.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Legends of Ethshar 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
- 1980s3
- 1990s10
- 2000s6
- 2010s7
- 2020s1
Shape
15 novels · 3 novelettes · 8 short stories · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:fantasywizardssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 68% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book22 of 27 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Unwelcome Warlockdarkest
- The Frog Wizardbrightest · calmest
- With a Single Spellmost intense