Elantris · Book 2
The Emperor's Soul
- Published
- 30 October 2012
- Pages
- 180
- ISBN-13
- 9781938570605
- Type
- novella
About this book
The Emperor's Soul followed seven years later in 2012, a much shorter work at 180 pages set in the same world roughly a decade after Elantris's events, with an entirely different cast. Sanderson wrote it as an optional companion that requires no other book to be read first.
Its place in Elantris
The Emperor's Soul is book 2 in the Elantris series. It follows Elantris. See the full Elantris reading order.
Elantris was once a city of literal gods: its people were transformed at random by the Shaod into radiant, ageless, superhumanly powerful beings who ruled the world in glory. Ten years before the novel opens, the magic reversed overnight -- the city's inhabitants became shambling, unhealing wretches instead, and Elantris was walled off as a slum for the cursed. Prince Raoden is struck by the failed Shaod on his wedding day and thrown into that living tomb, where he sets out to rebuild some kind of order among the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781616960926
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781470328375
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575116030