When it happens
OpensBaismas (late summer, Berry Month), Year 0
→
ClosesFriyamas (late winter, Cold Month), Year 1
"with autumn already hinting its arrival"; the harvest cheese trade indicates late summer; the climactic siege carries into autumn.
Introduced in this book 19
Alya
Farming
Astyral
Warmage
Azar
Warmage
Carmella
Warmage
Cei
Castellan
Garkesku
Spellmonger
Hesia
Warmage
Horka
Warmage
Isily
Shadowmage
Mavone
Warmage
Minalan
Village Spellcraft
Pentandra
Thaumaturge
Rondal
Apprentice Mage
Rustallo
Warmage
Sheruel
Dead God
Taren
Warmage
Terleman
Warmage
Tyndal
Apprentice Mage
Zagor
Hedgemage
Major events 2
Siege of Boval Castle
Siege · Year 0
The disaster that opens the series. Sire Koucey's pastoral fief in the Mindens is overrun by Sheruel's gurvani horde. Minalan and Pentandra activate the gurvani-augmented molopor under the castle through a sex-magic ritual to evacuate over four thousand Bovali peasants to safety, while the Aronin and his Tree Folk hold off the Dead God's sphere long enough to portal the warmagi clear. Koucey, captured alive by Sheruel's mind, is the Dead God's first human thrall.
The Flight from Boval
Rescue · Year 1
Minalan's evacuation of the surviving Boval refugees out of the dying valley, eastward over the high passes ahead of the gurvani host.
Places in play 4
Joined the ranks
- Pentandra — Member (Inner Circle), Order of the Secret Tower