Final WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW novel gets a release date

The long, long-awaited final novel in Janny Wurts' Wars of Light and Shadow series now has a release date. Song of the Mysteries will be published in May 2024.

The Wars of Light and Shadow series details the conflict between two half-brothers who rise to positions of power, but then face a supernatural threat to the whole world. The series consists of eleven novels divided into five distinct sub-arcs, as follows:

Arc I

• Curse of the Mistwraith (1993)

Arc II

• Ships of Merior (1994)
• Warhost of Vastmark (1995)

Arc III: Alliance of Light

• Fugitive Prince (1995)
• Grand Conspiracy (1999)
• Peril's Gate (2001)
• Traitor's Knot (2004)
• Stormed Fortress (2007)

Arc IV: Sword of the Canon

• Initiate's Trial (2011)
• Destiny's Conflict (2017)

Arc V

• Song of the Mysteries (2024)

The first novel was published in 1993, just three years after the first Wheel of Time novel and three years before A Game of Thrones, making this one of the longest-gestating fantasy series that was still incomplete. However, Wurts began thinking about and planning the series in 1972, making this an ending fifty years in the making.