The Age of Ravens Books in Order

The Age of Ravens is a darker military fantasy sequence Larry Correia writes with Steve Diamond, set in a world that has been at war for a hundred years. Two powers, the kingdom of Almacia and the harsh Empire of Kolakolvia, grind armies and civilians into the mud while rival gods watch from the shadows.

Servants of War, the opening novel, introduces Illarion Glaskov, a quiet young man from a backwater village on the fringes of Kolakolvia. When a supernatural tragedy devastates his home, he is seized by the Tsar’s forces and shipped to the front as just another conscript. Instead of a trench rifle, however, he is assigned to The Wall, an elite regiment that pilots monstrous suits of armor built from the husks of dead golems.

Life in The Wall is part industrial horror, part war novel. Illarion’s squad fights not only enemy soldiers in the blasted no man’s land, but also creatures that slip through rifts in reality and feed on fear. Battles involve bayonets, artillery, and mechanized exoshells that respond as much to the pilot’s will as to levers and gears. The book lingers on cold, mud, and the cost of every advance, making the occasional flashes of sorcery all the more jarring.

At the same time, Illarion is drawn into a conflict he barely understands between two ancient goddesses. One demands obedience through pain and blood. The other offers power at a different, subtler price. Their feud plays out in visions, miracles, and the strange way Illarion’s orders always seem to lead him toward key events. The more he learns, the less sure he is that loyalty to his empire and loyalty to his own conscience point in the same direction.

Future volumes promised under The Age of Ravens banner build on that mix of trench warfare and divine politics. Plots in distant capitals intersect with the misery at the front. Officers decide whether to treat their magically gifted soldiers as assets or expendable tools. The enemy is not just across the line; it may be wearing the same uniform, sitting in command tents, or whispering from forgotten shrines.

If you like your fantasy with the grit of a World War One novel and the unease of cosmic horror, The Age of Ravens delivers both. It is less about chosen-one heroics and more about battered people trying to do the right thing when every path runs through blood.