
In Alera, a realm modelled on Rome where nearly everyone commands elemental spirits called furies, Tavi, a fifteen-year-old shepherd with no furycrafting at all, is caught up in a plot against the First Lord as a horde of Marat threatens his valley.
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A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.

A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.

The Malazan Empire turns its armies on Darujhistan, the last free city of Genabackis, and Ganoes Paran, a young noble drawn into the games of the gods, is sent to command the Bridgeburners, a battered company the empress may want dead.

Pug, an orphaned kitchen boy at the castle of Crydee, is apprenticed to the magician Kulgan just as invaders from another world begin coming through a rift in space, and the war that follows carries him and his friend Tomas far from home.

A soldier stripped of his rank and a scholar desperate to save her people bond over ancient magical armour as war engulfs a storm-ravaged world.

Field Marshal Tamas leads a coup against the king of Adro and sends the royal cabal of mages to the guillotine, but their dying words hint at a threat from the gods, and his son Taniel, a powder mage, and Adamat, a retired detective, set out to learn what it means.

Twenty years after the Gifted lost a war and were bound by the Tenets, Davian, a student at one of their schools who can't use his powers, discovers he can do something forbidden, and flees with his friends as an ancient threat stirs in the north.

Nahri, a young con artist in eighteenth-century Cairo who does not believe in magic, accidentally summons Dara, a fierce djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism and is swept off to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, and its feuding royal court.

Eragon, a farm boy in the remote land of Alagaësia, finds a polished blue stone in the mountains that hatches into a dragon, and finds himself heir to the Dragon Riders, the order destroyed by the tyrant king Galbatorix.

Three hundred years after the gods of Vigrið destroyed one another, Orka, a farmer's wife with a violent past, Varg, an escaped thrall hunting his sister's killer, and Elvar, a warlord's daughter with a war-band, are drawn into a hunt for the gods' remains.

Every night demons rise from the ground to hunt and humanity cowers behind magical wards; after his mother's death, eleven-year-old Arlen Bales leaves his village sure that people should fight back, while an herb gatherer's apprentice and a young jongleur find their own ways to survive.

In the Banished Lands, where giants once ruled, Corban, a blacksmith's son, wants only to become a warrior, while kings gather for war, an old prophecy stirs and a wolven pup attaches itself to him.