The
Death Gate Cycle is a seven-part series (heptalogy) of fantasy novels
written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. The main conflict is between
two powerful races, the Sartan and the Patryns, which branched off from
humans following a nuclear/anti-matter holocaust. Centuries prior to
the events of the series, the Sartan attempted to end the conflict by
sundering the Earth into four elemental realms, and imprisoning the
Patryn in a fifth prison world, the Labyrinth. The Sartan took up
stewardship of the elemental realms, but soon mysteriously lost contact
with each other and disappeared. Centuries later, a Patryn known as Xar
escaped the Labyrinth, and started returning to the Labyrinth to rescue
others. He learned how to access the other worlds and dreamed of freeing
all his people from the Labyrinth and conquering the other worlds. The
books follow the fiercely independent Haplo, a Patryn agent sent to
scout the elemental worlds and throw them into chaos in preparation for
his Lord's conquest of them. Weis and Hickman created five distinct
fantasy worlds during the course of the series, along with developing
the cultures of five major races: their unique Patryn and Sartan, and
the common fantasy races of dwarves, elves, and humans.
Contains:
Dragon Wing
Elven Star
Fire Sea
Into the Labyrinth
Serpent Mage
The Hand of Chaos
The Seventh Gate
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