The Magic of Recluce

by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

  1. People

     

  2. Why is Lerris told nothing of his heritage? (why is he left in the "dark"?)

  3. Why doesn't Lerris believe in magic?

  4. What is "magic"?

  5. In the beginning, there is a direct connection of order=good, chaos=evil (told by Gunnar to Lerris.)

  6. Dangergeld

  7. Social/Political Structure of Recluce

  8. Technology levels

  9. Is this the story of Lerris's rite of passage?

  10. Religion

  11. How do we explain away Cassius? (truly a *black* magister)

  12. Order

  13. Chaos

  14. Balance

  15. What is the "Temple" tongue?

  16. What is Frven and why is it important?

  17. Antonin as chaos focus?

  18. Is the excrutiating detail of the book necessary? Does this help our empathy for Lerris?

  19. What is Krystal's story and is it important?

  20. Importance of choice? (Deirdre re: marrying Bostric, Lerris and Recluce, Tamra and Lerris, Krystal, etc.)

  21. huge screaming plot holes

A L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Bibliography (not in Chronological Order)

The Magic of Recluce Series

The Magic of Recluce (Lerris)
The Towers of the Sunset (Creslin)
The Magic Engineer (Dorrin)
The Order War (Justen)
The Death of Chaos (Lerris --directline sequel to MoR)
The Fall of Angels (Nylan)
The Chaos Balance (Nylan -- directline sequel to The Fall of Angels)
The White Order
Colors of Chaos
Magi'i of Sciador
Scion of Cyador

Ghosts

Of Tangible Ghosts
The Ghost of the Revelator
Ghost of the White Nights

The Ecolitan Institute
The Ecologic Envoy
The Ecolitan Operation
The Ecologic Secession
The Ecolitan Enigma
Empire & Ecolitan

The Forever Hero

The Forever Hero
Dawn for a Distant Earth
In Endless Twilight
The Silent Warrior

The Timegod Series

The Fires of Paratime (rewritten as The Timegod)
Timediver's Dawn
Timegods' World

The Spellsong Cycle

The Soprano Sorceress
The Spellsong War
Darksong Rising
The Shadow Sorceress


Non-Series
The Green Progression (with Bruce Scott Levinson)
The Hammer of Darkness
The Parafaith War
Adiamante
Gravity Dreams

These notes were written by Arin Komins.


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