Stonewielder

Stonewielder is the third of Ian C. Esslemont's Novels of the Malazan Empire, set in the epic fantasy world he built alongside Steven Erikson. It carries the reader to Korel, a storm-battered subcontinent where an earlier Malazan invasion ended in disaster and where the cult of the Lady rules through zealotry.

The Empire sends a new expedition under the renegade commander Greymane, while the Stormguard defend a failing wall against an implacable enemy from the sea. Around this campaign, Esslemont weaves the perspectives of soldiers, priests, investigators, and outcasts, drawing threads of religious oppression, buried history, and personal reckoning into a single convergence.

Sprawling and grim in the Malazan tradition, it deepens the fate of characters such as Greymane and Kyle while opening a corner of the world only glimpsed in the main series.