Series
Shadowmarch
Tad Williams · 4 novels · 1 short story · 2001–2010
Twins Barrick and Briony Eddon are next in line to rule Southmarch when their father the king is taken captive in war, leaving them to hold a fracturing kingdom together against scheming nobles and a slowly advancing invasion by the Qar, an ancient and inhuman people from beyond the mysterious Shadowline. Tad Williams's Shadowmarch series follows the twins as they're pulled toward secrets buried beneath their own castle, including gods older than the kingdom itself. The story runs across Shadowmarch, Shadowplay, Shadowrise, and Shadowheart.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Shadowmarch 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
- 2000s3
- 2010s2
Shape
4 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:epic fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Shadowrisedarkest · calmest
- Shadowplaybrightest
- Shadowheartmost intense