Lore

Events

Battles, weddings, tournaments, and ceremonies of the Spellmonger series

Book 2 · Battle
Battle of Timberwatch
The Great Horde Broken
Book 10 · Battle
Battle of Olum Seheri
The Rardine Rescue
Book 3 · Ceremony
The Snowstone Event
Briga Answers
Book 17 · Wedding
Vanador Double Wedding
Four Vows, One Day
Book 17 · Election
Election of Doge Mirkandar I
Minalan as Mirkandar I

Battles & Sieges

The great military engagements of the series — Timberwatch, Olum Seheri, Darkfaller, and more.

Siege of Boval Castle
Book 1 · Siege Defeat
The first great tragedy of the series — Sire Koucey's castle overrun by Sheruel's gurvani horde and the Bovali evacuated through the molopor.
Battle of Timberwatch
Book 2 · Battle Victory
The pitched day-long battle that broke the first gurvani horde and cost Duke Lenguin of Alshar his life — the making of the Magi as a political and military power.
Siege of Tudry
Book 2 · Siege Victory
Ten thousand gurvani besiege the walled city of Tudry; Minalan and his warmagi break the siege in a relief battle that cements his reputation.
Siege of Sevendor (Gimbal's Attack)
Book 3 · Siege Victory
Sire Gimbal the Warbird's 150-knight assault on the young magelord's barony — broken by Minalan, Baron Arathanial, and Sarakeem's archery.
Dragonfall at Barrowbell
Book 4 · Battle Victory
Tyndal and Rondal's celebrated slaying of the great dragon driven against Barrowbell — the event that made them household names across the Kingdom.
Battle of the Poros
Book 5 · Battle Mixed
A great river battle against the gurvani army crossing into Gilmora; Prince Tavard's cavalry charge carries the day, but he then accepts Koucey's chivalric surrender and lets the enemy withdraw intact.
Defense and Fall of Anthatiel
Book 5 · Siege Defeat
The great Alka Alon citadel of Lord Aeratas falls to Sheruel and Korbal's gurvani horde — remade as the Nemovort necropolis of Olum Seheri.
Greenflower Magewar
Book 8 · Battle Mixed
Minalan's assault on Castle Salaisus after Dunselen and Isily are exposed as conspirators — Dunselen dies, Isily is left comatose, and Alya's mind is shattered in the blast.
Battle of Olum Seheri
Book 10 · Battle Mixed
The calamitous raid that bound Korbal to a decaying host, freed Princess Rardine, and came within inches of destroying Sheruel — at terrible cost in lives.
Darkfaller Raid
Book 15 · Battle Victory
Terleman's assault on Mycin Amana's fortress — culminating in the expulsion of the Nemovort from Isily's stolen body and the recovery of Alurra, Gatina and the other kidnapped magi.

Weddings

Political matches, love-matches, and the occasional draugen attack on the reception.

Wedding of Prince Tavard and Princess Armandra
Book 6 · Wedding Resolved
The royal match binding Castal and Remere — Tavard III to Lady Armandra, daughter of the Count of Remeralon.
Wedding of Pentandra and Arborn
Book 7 · Wedding Resolved
Pentandra weds the Kasari captain Arborn at a sacred Kasari waterfall — having completed the kindred's rites unaided by her irionite.
Wedding of Lady Fallawen and Sir Ryff
Book 10 · Wedding Resolved
The first Alka Alon–humani marriage of the series, staged at the Everfire on Briga's Day with Prince Tavard in attendance.
Wedding of Duke Anguin and Princess Rardine
Book 11 · Wedding Resolved
The Falas political marriage that bound the restored Duchy of Alshar to the Castali crown — and formed the partnership that would run Anguin's court for the rest of the series.
Vanador Double Wedding
Book 17 · Wedding Resolved
The culminating celebration of the series — Rondal weds Gatina and Tyndal weds Tandine in a shared ceremony at Vanador.

Tournaments & Trials

Public contests — the Spellmonger's Trial, the Barrowbell Tournament, and the Lion of Gilmora's defeat.

Spellmonger's Trial at Sevendor
Book 3 · Tournament
Minalan's open tournament for a witchstone — won by the twelve-year-old Dara ahead of the warmage frontrunner Jendaran the Trusty.
Barrowbell Tournament
Book 10 · Tournament Victory
Marshal Terleman's climactic tournament bout with the Lion of Gilmora, staged in Barrowbell during the Gilmoran campaigns.

Conclaves & Councils

The Robinwing Conclave, the Alka Alon Convocation, and the gatherings that shaped policy.

Robinwing Conclave
Book 3 · Conclave Resolved
The first great gathering of the Arcane Orders — convened at Robinwing by Minalan, and foundational to the institutional shape of the Magelaw's magic.
Alka Alon Convocation
Book 5 · Council Mixed
The formal Alkan Convocation in the Mindens to which Minalan was summoned alongside Lady Darvios of the Valley People and the conservative Lord Letharan.

Ceremonies & Elections

Coronations, investitures, restorations, and the Snowstone Event itself.

The Snowstone Event
Book 3 · Ceremony
The Yule night when Minalan, invoking Briga during Minalyan's difficult birth, transmuted the entire mountain of Sevendor into snowstone in a single thaumaturgic event.
Restoration of Anguin
Book 11 · Ceremony Victory
The 800-Wilderlord infiltration campaign and loyalist rising that returned Duke Anguin II triumphantly to the Coral Seat at Falas.
Election of Doge Mirkandar I
Book 17 · Election Victory
Minalan's undercover election as Doge of Farise — eliminating the Mirkandar syndicate's candidate and stealing the office through the rigged Congress of Electors.
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