The Warsworn Trilogy Books in Order

The Warsworn Trilogy centers on the rock trolls, a race forged for combat whose bodies are as hard as stone and whose skin is tattooed for every enemy they have slain. They have trained for war since the dawn of magic and have few equals in open battle.

Over ages that focus has cost them their history of honor. By the time The Flesh of War opens, the wider world sees rock trolls only as living weapons, and a bounty has been placed on their entire race. To survive, the trolls must remember who they used to be before they become nothing more than someone else’s monsters.

At the center of that struggle is Tryton, born in the middle of a brutal conflict yet carrying an instinctive pull toward peace and restraint.

The Age of War pushes the conflict inward. A new king, Sybrik, inherits the throne and channels the trolls’ hunger for perfection into endless campaigns that bleed their numbers dry. Tryton, marked by strength and an unshakable sense of honor, has to oppose his own ruler and keep Sybrik from awakening a forgotten weapon that would put every living thing in range of troll spears.

In The Heart of War the story jumps forward to a time when Tryton has rebuilt his people and turned them into guardians instead of terrors, defending mages, guildmasters, and kings. That fragile peace is threatened by another rock troll from deep history, a warlord bound in impenetrable armor and empowered by the Lord of Chaos, who leads an invading army from another realm toward Lumineia.

Read together, the trilogy feels like part military fantasy and part character study of a culture trying to remember its better self. You can enjoy it on its own, but it also adds rich background to the rock trolls who appear elsewhere in the Chronicles of Lumineia timeline.