Wars of Light and Shadow Series by Janny Wurts

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  • The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)
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    The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings · published 1993

    The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith’s stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow and Lysaer, Lord of Light.Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet there is more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith – as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven know well... more

  • Child of Prophecy (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)
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    Child of Prophecy (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2004

    Meiglin lived under the shadow of a death sentence all her life, although she was townborn and kept ignorant of her ancestry. When the shocking fact of her birthright forces her onto the streets at fourteen years of age, she must flee with only the clothes on her back. Amid the tempestuous turmoil of the Mistwraith's incursion through South Gate, these are the lawless times, with clan survivors being hunted down for bounty... more

  • Reins of Destiny (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)
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    Reins of Destiny (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2007

    A prequel short story set at the start of the uprising that dethroned the High King of Havish.Familiarity with at least one volume in the Wars of Light and Shadows series is suggested as background to grasp the full impact, and for best appreciation read Reins of Destiny anytime in Arc III, Alliance of Light.

  • Black Bargain (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)
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    Black Bargain (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2023

  • The Sundering Star (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)
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    The Sundering Star (Wars of Light and Shadow #1)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2007

    Long before Mankind sought refugee settlement on the world of Athera, Koriathain served as a secret society, sworn to humanitarian intervention. In a short story from these ancient roots, a young woman bound between two clandestine identities faces a terrible choice, while caught in the teeth of a pivotal encounter that must alter her fate, and the course of history.Sundering Star is best read before Arc IV - Sword of the Canon, as bits in it come into play as Arc IV opens up... more

  • The Ships of Merior (Wars of Light and Shadow #2)
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    The Ships of Merior (Wars of Light and Shadow #2)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1994

    A powerful, layered weaving of myth, prose and pure imagination – The Ships of Merior continues an epic fantasy series perfect for enthusiasts of The Dark Tower and Earthsea.The second volume of Janny Wurts's incomparable series following Arithon and Lysaer, two brothers forced to take opposite sides in a relentless conflict... more

  • Warhost of Vastmark (Wars of Light and Shadow #3)
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    Warhost of Vastmark (Wars of Light and Shadow #3)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings · published 1995

    Janny Wurts’s epic tale of two half-brothers cursed to life-long enmity reaches new heights in the third volume, now re-released with a striking new cover.Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior to find that Arithon’s ship yards have been abandoned and meticulously destroyed, and that the Master of Shadow has disappeared as if into thin air... more

  • The Ships of Merior (Wars of Light and Shadow #2-3)
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    The Ships of Merior (Wars of Light and Shadow #2-3)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1995

    From the bestselling author of Curse of the Mistwraith and coauthor of the Empire series comes an epic new tale in the Wars of Light and Shadow series. In defeat, the Mistwraith has set its two royal captains at odds under a powerful curse of vengeance. Now, the princes hold the fates of the nations in the throes of their feud.

  • The Wars of Light and Shadow Books 1-3 (Wars of Light and Shadow #1-3)
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    The Wars of Light and Shadow Books 1-3 (Wars of Light and Shadow #1-3)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2016

    The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith’s stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow and Lysaer, Lord of Light.Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet there is more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith – as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven know well... more

  • Fugitive Prince (Wars of Light and Shadow #4)
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    Fugitive Prince (Wars of Light and Shadow #4)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1997

    Where there is light, there must always be shadow… The fourth volume in Janny Wurts’s spectacular epic fantasy, now re-released with a striking new cover design along with the rest of the series.The schism began with two half-brothers empowered to subdue a Mistwraith. In revenge it cursed them to a life of perpetual conflict... more

  • Grand Conspiracy (Wars of Light and Shadow #5)
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    Grand Conspiracy (Wars of Light and Shadow #5)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings · published 1999

    Janny Wurts's justifiably skilful and lovingly composed Wars of Light and Shadow series joins the ranks of Robert Jordan's protracted Wheel of Time series, et al., as either--depending on which camp you hail from--the height of high fantasy or the deeply frustrating (yet persistent) problem with the genre... more

  • Peril's Gate (Wars of Light and Shadow #6)
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    Peril's Gate (Wars of Light and Shadow #6)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2001

    Where there is light, there must always be shadow… The fourth volume in Janny Wurts’s spectacular epic fantasy, now re-released with a striking new cover design along with the rest of the series.The curse that hangs over the Master of Shadow, Arithon, and Lord of Light, Lysaer, is drawing the two half-brothers ever closer towards direct conflict. For the Natural Balance to be maintained, the two must never fight... more

  • Traitor's Knot (Wars of Light and Shadow #7)
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    Traitor's Knot (Wars of Light and Shadow #7)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2004

    The gripping penultimate instalment of the Alliance of Light.When half brothers Lysaer and Arithon defeated the Mistwraith its revenge left them cursed to lifelong enmity.Having conquered the maze and achieved self-redemption, Arithon, Master of Shadow, is now the guest of the formidable sorcerer, Davien the Betrayer. No one knows how his influence will affect Arithon’s recovered mage power, or his newly awakened rogue talent for prescience... more

  • Stormed Fortress (Wars of Light and Shadow #8)
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    Stormed Fortress (Wars of Light and Shadow #8)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2007

    Half-brothers Arithon and Lysaer were laid under a curse of lifelong enmity when they defeated the Mistwraith and freed the world of Athera. Now the citadel at Alestron is under siege by Lysaer and his troops, and Arithon must stand alone at the hour of reckoning as the true purpose of the Koriani enchantresses becomes fully unveiled.

  • The Wars of Light and Shadow Books 4-8 (Wars of Light and Shadow #4-8)
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    The Wars of Light and Shadow Books 4-8 (Wars of Light and Shadow #4-8)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2016

    The schism began with two half-brothers empowered to subdue a Mistwraith. In revenge it cursed them to a life of perpetual conflict. Each believes absolutely in his cause, and loathes the other for opposing it…Lysaer, Prince of the Light – a charismatic leader sworn to set humanity free from sorcerous oppression. He claims divine power to safeguard his people from an enemy he is convinced will destroy them... more

  • Initiate's Trial (Wars of Light and Shadow #9)
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    Initiate's Trial (Wars of Light and Shadow #9)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings · published 2011

    The first book in the fourth arc, Sword of the Canon, finds Arithon and Lysaer on an unstoppable path toward direct conflictHalf-brothers Arithon and Lysaer were laid under a curse of lifelong enmity when they defeated the Mistwraith and freed the world of Athera. Now Arithon has been magically imprisoned and his memories have been removed... more

  • Destiny's Conflict (Wars of Light and Shadow #10)
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    Destiny's Conflict (Wars of Light and Shadow #10)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2017

    The long-awaited second book of the fourth story arc - Sword of the Canon - in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow.Lysaer’s unstable integrity lies under threat of total downfall, and as his determined protector, Daliana will face the most frightening decision of her young life.Arithon, Master of Shadow, is marked for death and still hunted, when his critical quest to recover his obscured past entangles him in a web of deep intrigue and ancient perils beyond his imagining... more

  • Song of the Mysteries (Wars of Light and Shadow #11)
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    Song of the Mysteries (Wars of Light and Shadow #11)

    Janny Wurts

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2024

    The hugely anticipated final volume of The Wars of Light and Shadow brings this widely acclaimed, masterful epic fantasy series to its powerful, earth-shattering close.In the final battle of Light against Shadow, warring factions prepare to meet the bare fist of Arithon’s fury, sparked by the execution of the innocent murdered by divine decree... more

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