I'll probably not do the series just but . . .
There's this world, see, and it's populated by humans . . . oh, and animals and bugs and what not. But no elves and fairies and all that.
Its magic is very much based on black Order and white Chaos, as is its history. Far back in the history of the world, there came the White Demons, humans from another universe, possibly, who found that they could control chaos magic (destructive forces) and built a White Empire. Then came the Black Angels hundreds, possibly thousands of years later, a single small warship who were fighting the White Demons in a war in space in their mutual origin universe. They "introduced" (or possibly reintroduced, it's a bit vague here) order magic (forces conducive to stasis). The White Empire fell to the Black Angels, and the home that the Black Angels built fell hundreds of years after that to Chaos Magic city-state, but not before a rogue from the blacks built a new sanctuary for those that followed order on the island of Recluce. And history continued, with order against chaos, and chaos against order.
Two books max for each protagonist, then Modesitt, the author, moves onto a new protagonist and a new period in the history of his world.
Some of the plots for the books are quite similar, and the protagonists themselves are quite alike. But the narratives, world building, relationships and moral dilemmas presented are fantastic. It's a great series.
There's this world, see, and it's populated by humans . . . oh, and animals and bugs and what not. But no elves and fairies and all that.
Its magic is very much based on black Order and white Chaos, as is its history. Far back in the history of the world, there came the White Demons, humans from another universe, possibly, who found that they could control chaos magic (destructive forces) and built a White Empire. Then came the Black Angels hundreds, possibly thousands of years later, a single small warship who were fighting the White Demons in a war in space in their mutual origin universe. They "introduced" (or possibly reintroduced, it's a bit vague here) order magic (forces conducive to stasis). The White Empire fell to the Black Angels, and the home that the Black Angels built fell hundreds of years after that to Chaos Magic city-state, but not before a rogue from the blacks built a new sanctuary for those that followed order on the island of Recluce. And history continued, with order against chaos, and chaos against order.
Two books max for each protagonist, then Modesitt, the author, moves onto a new protagonist and a new period in the history of his world.
Some of the plots for the books are quite similar, and the protagonists themselves are quite alike. But the narratives, world building, relationships and moral dilemmas presented are fantastic. It's a great series.