Steven EriksonFiction · Fantasy·b. 1959
House of Chains
House of Chains
- Pages
- 1024
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- English
Synopsis
House of Chains opens with a near-novella-length portrait of a single man: Karsa Orlong, a Teblor warrior whose savage raid on a human village begins a journey that will span continents and centuries. His arc — from murderous barbarian to something harder to categorize — is one of the series' most provocative and misunderstood achievements.
The novel then returns to Seven Cities and the aftermath of the Whirlwind, where Adjunct Tavore Paran leads the newly formed 14th Army to confront Sha'ik, the prophetess of the rebellion — who is hiding a secret that makes the coming battle a tragedy before the first blow is struck.
House of Chains asks difficult questions about what violence does to those who commit it, and whether the world's systems of power can ever be escaped by those born within them. It is the book in which the series fully declares its central moral argument.
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How it reads
Prose complexity 6/10
Content warnings (3)
Graphic ViolenceGoreSexual Assault
