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The Last King of Osten Ard2017–2024 · the sequel saga
The sequel series to Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, set roughly thirty years on: Simon and Miriamele are the aging King and Queen of the High Ward, their son dead, the Norns stirring again under Queen Utuk'ku and the witchwood. Two novellas bracket the quartet — The Heart of What Was Lost (the interquel) and Brothers of the Wind (the thousand-year-old prequel of Ineluki's fall).
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The Books
web-verified — US first editions
- The Heart of What Was Lost2017interquel — the Norn retreat right after the first war (Isgrimnur at Nakkiga)
- The Witchwood Crown2017the quartet begins, a generation later
- Empire of Grass2019
- Brothers of the Wind2021prequel — ~1,000 years before; Hakatri & Ineluki, told by the Changeling squire Pamon Kes
- Into the Narrowdark2022
- The Navigator's Children2024the finale of the saga
The Roster — 11
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Simon & Miriamele, the aging crown — the king & queen, grown old
The heroes of the first war now rule the High Ward as grieving grandparents — their son dead, the Norns stirring again.
Prince Morgan — the feckless heir
Simon and Miriamele's hard-drinking teenage grandson, who must grow into the crown across the quartet.
Nezeru — the half-Norn Talon
A young half-mortal warrior of the Queen's elite — daughter of Viyeki and a mortal slave, torn between two heritages.
Viyeki sey-Enduya — the Norn builder
High Magister of the Order of Builders — a thoughtful Hikeda'ya whose loyalty to the Queen is tested.
Tzoja — the mortal in Nakkiga
Viyeki's mortal slave-wife and Nezeru's mother, surviving inside the Norn city.
Jarnulf, the White Hand — the slave's vengeance
An escaped mortal slave and deadly archer waging a private war against the Norns.
Unver Shan — the grasslands shan
A grim half-Thrithings warrior who rises to unite the clans of the plains.
Brother Etan — the scholar-monk
A young Aedonite monk sent to chase the saga's old mysteries — a human window onto the deep history.
The Witchwood Crown — the near-extinct sacred tree
Witchwood, the rare tree at the root of immortal power — Utuk'ku's scheme to restore Norn dominion turns on it.
Hakatri & Ineluki — the origin of the fall
A thousand years before — two Sithi brothers, told through the Changeling squire Pamon Kes, and the wound that begins Ineluki's road to becoming the Storm King.
The Heart of What Was Lost — the bridge
The interquel of the Norn retreat — Isgrimnur at the gates of Nakkiga — the seam between the two great series.
“Thirty years on, the heroes are old and the Norns return — the second great Osten Ard saga, bracketed by the wound that began it all.”
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