The Mage Wars (Gryphon Trilogy) · Book 1
The Black Gryphon
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780886776435
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Black Gryphon (1994) opens the Mage Wars trilogy at 464 pages, the longest of the three, co-written with Larry Dixon and set roughly a thousand years before Valdemar exists, following gryphon warrior Skandranon through a cataclysmic magical war's brutal endgame.
Its place in The Mage Wars (Gryphon Trilogy)
The Black Gryphon is book 1 in the The Mage Wars (Gryphon Trilogy) series. It is followed by The White Gryphon. See the full The Mage Wars (Gryphon Trilogy) reading order.
Co-written with Lackey's husband Larry Dixon, the Mage Wars trilogy jumps back roughly a thousand years before the rest of the Valdemar timeline, to the cataclysmic magical war that destroyed the ancient Mage of Silence Empire and reshaped the entire continent's geography and magic. Its protagonists are gryphons — intelligent, magically-created winged beings — rather than humans: Skandranon, a vain, heroic gryphon warrior, leads the story through the war's brutal endgame in The Black Gryphon , then follows the…
Editions
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