Series
Mage Wars
Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon · 3 novels · 1994–1996
Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon's Mage Wars trilogy is set some 2,500 years before the original Valdemar novels, dramatizing the ancient magical war that later Valdemar history treats as founding myth. It follows the proud, artificially created gryphon Skandranon Rashkae and the trauma healer Amberdrake as they navigate an empire-shattering conflict under the mage Urtho. The Black Gryphon, The White Gryphon, and The Silver Gryphon lay the magical groundwork that reverberates through the rest of Lackey's Valdemar universe.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Mage Wars 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
- 1990s3
Shape
3 novels
2 authors
reads like:epic fantasycourt intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The White Gryphondarkest · calmest
- The Silver Gryphonbrightest · most intense