Stories Of The Raksura Books in Order

Stories of the Raksura collects novellas and short fiction set in the same world as the main Raksura novels. These pieces fill in history, side adventures, and character moments that the longer books only hint at.

Volume I contains 'The Falling World' and 'The Tale of Indigo and Cloud'. In the first, Jade and her small traveling party vanish while visiting another court, forcing Moon, Stone, and a rescue team to cross dangerous territory and untangle an ancient trap buried deep in the Reaches. The second story jumps back centuries to show how Indigo Cloud itself was founded, when Indigo stole Cloud from the court of Emerald Twilight and nearly set off a war among the Raksura.

Volume II offers 'The Dead City' and 'The Dark Earth Below'. The Dead City follows a younger, pre series Moon as he flees a town destroyed by the Fell and stumbles into a caravanserai under siege by an eerie, unseen force. The Dark Earth Below returns to Indigo Cloud after the main trilogy, as Moon and Jade prepare for their first clutch and investigate troubling disappearances among the plant like Kek who live at the base of the colony tree.

Both books also include shorter pieces that explore Moon's earliest years and side stories for other characters. Together they round out the sense that the Three Worlds is a big, complicated place where courts rise and fall, legends are rooted in specific events, and even small choices can echo through generations.

If you love the main Raksura novels, these stories reward you with extra time in the same setting and make later rereads richer, but they can also serve as a taste of the series for new readers who want to sample the world before committing to several full length books.