Wrath of a Mad God

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name = Wrath of a Mad God
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image_caption = "Wrath of a Mad God" first edition cover.
author = Raymond E. Feist
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cover_artist = Dominic Forbes
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = "Darkwar Saga"
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genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = HarperVoyager
pub_date = March 3, 2008cite web | url = http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/publication-information/uk/darkwar-saga | title = Release date | publisher = Crydee.com |language = | date = | accessdate = 2008-06-02]
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 516 pp "(first edition)"
isbn = ISBN 0007244290
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preceded_by = Into a Dark Realm
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"Wrath of a Mad God" is a fantasy novel by Raymond E. Feist. It is the third and final book in the "Darkwar Saga" and was published in 2008. It was preceded by "Into a Dark Realm" which was published in 2006. It was originally meant to be published on September 3, 2007.

Plot introduction

On the world of the Dasati, Pug and the other Conclave members must find a way to save their people from the magician, Leso Varen,and the wrath of the mad god he has awoken. Miranda must find a way to save herself from the clutches of the Deathpriests who haveher held captive on the world of Kelewan.

Plot summary

"Wrath of a Mad God" finishes the Darkwar saga. Pug, Magnus, Nakor and Ralan Bek have reached the Dasati home world, and are now working with the followers of the White, what they called their pantheon of gods who were evicted from the second plane by the Dark God. Macros learns that the living Gods of Midkemia -- including the Nameless -- made an agreement with the gods of the second plane of reality (if they are not one and the same), and a result was that the soul of Macros was forced into the second plane of reality after his encounter and subsequent death at the hands of Maarg the demon king of the 5th plane of reality. Ralan Bek is not the God Killer, containing not a sliver of Nalar the nameless one, but he carries a sliver of the Dasati god of war to prepare the way for the true God Killer. The Dark God turns out to be an obese Dread Lord, feeding off the countless souls of the dead in the Dasati realm. The Dreadlord had previously invaded the third and fourth plane of reality, consuming all life within both realms. His ultimate goal is to devour enough souls in the second plane to transport himself into the first plane, where the world of Midkemia resides. The Dreadlord is eventually defeated by the God Killer which is revealed to be the tiny sliver of Nalar sheltered by Leso Varen. For once, Nalar, the mad God of Evil, worked in concert with the other gods of his pantheon, to prevent the Dreadlord from subverting his role as the ultimate force for evil in the first plane of reality.

Continuing on with the two stories, one book -theme started in the preceding book, Miranda, who remained behind in the first plane of reality, escapes from the Deathpriests of the Dasati. She travels to Kelewan, and there leads the Tsurani in the defense of their, ultimately doomed, home-world.

Continuity errors

There are several small continuity errors in this book if considered as part of the wider Raymond Feist canon: firstly, the Tsurani Minwanabi family re-appears despite having been obliterated in the "Empire" series, with an inadequate explanation of their continued existence; secondly, Lord Erik (von Darkmoor) is described as regretting that he never "married and had children", where we know from "Rage of a Demon King" that Erik married Kitty before the fall of Krondor, and thirdly when Jim Dasher arrives with Tomas on the back of a dragon to aid Duke Kaspar and the anoredhel elves, Kaspar asks to be introduced to the Warleader and says "I know him by reputation only", yet in Exile's Return Tomas and Kaspar fought alongside each other, when the Talnoy was taken to Elvandar for advice.

It is also noted that the Emperor Sezu, Emperor Justin's grandson, tells Miranda that no one has lived on the hereditary Acoma estates near Sulan-Qu since Justin became Emperor, and that those lands were kept as a site of veneration as the "birthplace of the Mistress of the Empire". However, at the end of Mistress of the Empire, Mara (the Mistress of the Empire) deeds her natal estates to Lujan in reward for his service and to start his own house, that of Lujan. Whether or not House Lujan endures is not covered in this text, but the house would have occupied those lands for at least some time after Justin was crowned Emperor.

Publication history

Since its release "Wrath of a Mad God" has been published in at least five countries and three languages. cite web | url = http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/publication-information | title = Publication info | publisher = Crydee.com | date = | accessdate = 2008-06-01]

Note: Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have the same release dates as the UK.

*2008, UK, HarperCollins ISBN 0007244290, Pub date March 3, 2008, Hardback
*2008, UK, HarperCollins ISBN 0007244304, Pub date September 1, 2008, Trade paperback

*2008, USA, HarperCollins ISBN 0060792981, Pub date March 25, 2008, Hardback
*2008, NLD, Luitingh Fantasy, ISBN 9789024556595, Pub date April, 2008, Hardback
*2008, HUN, Beholder Kft., Pub date June 2, 2008, Paperback

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