The Black Gryphon
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780886776435
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about The Black Gryphon
The Black Gryphon is a novel by Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey. Readers have had it since 1994. It runs to 464 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Black Gryphon. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780886776435 to find the main one.
The Black Gryphon is book 1 of 3 in The Mage Wars (Gryphon Trilogy) series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Mercedes Lackey writes The Brainship Series, Heralds of Valdemar and Vows and Honor, plus 23 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, fantasy and urban fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, The Cyprian is the latest published Mercedes Lackey book on file, from 30 December 2025.
About Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey is one of the most prolific authors in modern fantasy, best known for her Valdemar novels, an interlocking mega-series that has run since 1987 across dozens of trilogies and standalones set in a single shared kingdom. See every Mercedes Lackey book in order.
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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780886776435