Series
Lightbringer
Brent Weeks · 5 novels · 2010–2019
The Black Prism introduces Gavin Guile, the Prism — supreme religious and political authority over the Seven Satrapies, and the only person able to draft every color of magical light into solid, structural "luxin" — as an uprising and a hidden family secret both threaten to unravel the fragile peace he's built. Brent Weeks's five-book Lightbringer series pushes its chromaturgy magic system toward its physical and moral limits: drafters who overuse their color eventually "break the halo" and turn into monsters called wights.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Lightbringer 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
- 2010s5
Shape
5 novels
1 author
reads like:epic fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedtenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 60% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Blood Mirrordarkest · calmest
- The Blinding Knifebrightest
- The Black Prismmost intense