Sartorias-deles: History

“Lily and Crown” proves that diplomacy is war by other means as character dance on a break-neck reel through power-plays, treachery and clashing cultures, leading to changes for two powerful kingdoms and the birth of a third.This is the origin story of Colend, a setting featured in many of Sherwood Smith’s novels about Sartorias-deles.

“A first-rate fantasy novel” that blends military fantasy with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and a diverse cast of characters (Orson Scott Card, New York Times–bestselling author of Ender’s Game)

The first book in the acclaimed Inda series, set within Sherwood Smith’s epic fantasy universe, Sartorias-deles

Indevan-Dal is the second son...

Acclaimed Inda series within Sherwood Smith’s epic fantasy Sartorias-deles universe • Military fantasy woven with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and diverse characters

As the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer, Inda was fated to protect the realm his older brother would inherit. Forced to flee his homeland before his...

Acclaimed Inda series within Sherwood Smith’s epic fantasy Sartorias-deles universe • Military fantasy woven with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and diverse characters

Inda was the second son of the prince and princess of Choraed Elgaer. It had been Inda’s fate, as second son, to be his family’s Shield Arm and spend his adult life...

Acclaimed Inda series within Sherwood Smith’s epic fantasy Sartorias-deles universe • Military fantasy woven with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and diverse characters

After ten years of exile on the sea, Inda returned home to protect his country from attack by an ancient enemy. But he found his home utterly changed. His old classmate...

In a time of change and danger, peace sparks to war, and sons become daughters...

It’s nearly a century after the death of Inda, the unbeatable Marlovan commander.

Danet and Arrow, content in their arranged marriage, just want to live in peaceful obscurity and raise their family. But when a treaty sends them to the royal city to meet the heir to...

In a time of rising danger, women go to war, and ghosts walk the walls...

In the second volume of TIME OF DAUGHTERS, a few years have passed since the Night of Four Kings, when the least expected candidates for rulership found themselves in charge of a disintegrating kingdom.

Threats from the border become raids, led by an idle noble with an eye...

Standalone novel of Sherwood Smith’s epic fantasy Sartorias-deles universe • follow-up to acclaimed military fantasy Inda series • courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and diverse characters

“Smith should rank high on any list of military writers.... A first-rate author boldly at play.” —SF Signal

Emras is the most diligent of students, and she...