Forge of Darkness
First edition cover | |
| Author | Steven Erikson |
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| Cover artist | Steve Stone |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Kharkanas Trilogy |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Bantam Press (UK & Canada) & Tor Books (USA) |
Publication date | 31 July 2012 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) Ebook Audiobook |
| Pages | 662 (Bantam UK hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | 0-593-06217-5 (Bantam UK hardcover edition) |
| OCLC | 778422528 |
| 813.6 | |
| LC Class | PR9199.4.E745 |
| Followed by | Fall of Light |
Forge of Darkness is the first novel of The Kharkanas Trilogy by Canadian author Steven Erikson, set before the events of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.
The novel is set 300,000 years before the events in the Book of the Fallen and explores the background of the Tiste race and their impending civil war. The novel is framed as being told by one poet to another.