Series

Wars of Vis

Tanith Lee · 3 novels · 1976–1988

Tanith Lee's Wars of Vis trilogy is set on a world of feuding city-states, following the warlord Raldnor Am Anackire's rise as long-buried tensions between the pale-skinned Vis and darker-skinned Lowlanders erupt into open war and the revelation of hidden power. The Storm Lord opens the trilogy, continued by Anackire and The White Serpent.

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

Wars of Vis 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

  • 1970s1
  • 1980s2

Shape

3 novels

1 author · completed series

reads like:fantasygodssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult

Mood

Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.

this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone

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