The series starts with the Last War ending. Not knowing what else to do, the four go to Sharn, where Lei has a fiancé waiting for her. But they quickly become embroiled in plot and intrigue, starting with the fact that Lei's betrothed has been murdered.
The books in this series are:
- The City of Towers
- The Shattered Land
- The Gates of Night
Contains examples of:
- Accidental Truth: Jode's bluff to get them into the city. Daine is a scion of Deneith, Jode is possibly a scion of Jarasco, Lei's parents did invent the warforged, and Pierce was created to protect Lei.
- A Head at Each End: The gigantic two-headed snake in The Gates Of Night. This trope makes sense, as it's a living bridge and is obliged to question each individual who wishes to cross the river on its back (in either direction).
- Ancestral Weapon: Daine's sword, which belonged to his grandfather.
- Big Bad: The Dreaming Dark by proxy.
- The Big Guy: Pierce.
- Deadly Doctor: Jode.
- Defector from Decadence: Daine feels this way.
- Deliberately Cute Child: The goblin girl who may not even be a child—Daine's not good at judging their age.
- Deus ex Machina: Type 4 when Daine manifests an aberrant mark in book three.
- Easy Amnesia: The party was actually inside Cyre during the Mourning. Next thing they know, they're right on the border, with no memory of how they got there.
- Eldritch Abomination: The mind flayer and the quori.
- The Insomniac: Pierce is a type 4.
- The Medic: Jode. Lei always works like this for Pierce.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Lei is actually a highly advanced warforged, or perhaps a flesh-and-blood homunculus with the same arcane "programming" as her warforged siblings.
