Series
The Orcs Domain
Stan Nicholls · 6 novels · 5 short stories · 1 collection · 1999–2015
Stan Nicholls's Orcs novels invert typical fantasy roles, following a warband of orcs as sympathetic protagonists defending their homeland of Maras-Dantia against human colonizers and rival magic-users encroaching on their territory. The books were originally published as the Orcs: First Blood trilogy before being collected into omnibus volumes. Nicholls treats the orcs' culture and internal politics with the same seriousness usually reserved for human fantasy protagonists.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Orcs: First Blood(3 works)
- Orcs: Bad Blood(4 works)
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
The Orcs Domain at the centre, 2 subseries around it, 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
- 1990s2
- 2000s4
- 2010s6
Shape
6 novels · 5 short stories · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:fantasywarsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 12 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Infernodarkest · calmest
- Orcs: Tales of Maras-Dantiabrightest
- Weapons of Magical Destructionmost intense