Fall of Light

Its place in The Kharkanas Trilogy

Fall of Light is book 2 in the The Kharkanas Trilogy series. It follows Forge of Darkness. See the full The Kharkanas Trilogy reading order.

The Kharkanas Trilogy is Steven Erikson's prequel to the Malazan Book of the Fallen, plunging deep into the ancient history of the Tiste people thousands of years before Gardens of the Moon. Where the main sequence throws readers into the middle of an already-vast world, Kharkanas builds from the ground up: this is the fall of a civilization, the internal war that fractures the Tiste into Andii, Liosan and Edur, and the tragic, self-destroying court politics that produce the god-figures and legendary names later…