Welcome to Nov Belgaer - The Sun Eater Wiki!
The Nov Belgaer Wiki is a compendium of information relating to all aspects of Christopher Ruocchio's acclaimed science fantasy series, The Sun Eater. This comprehensive resource includes details of Hadrian Marlowe's epic journey through a galaxy-spanning empire, from Characters and Locations to Technology and Lore. Please join us in documenting one of modern science fiction's most ambitious sagas.
About the Sun Eater Series
The Sun Eater is an epic space opera series blending elements of fantasy with the scale of far-future science fiction. Set approximately 20,000 years in the future, the series chronicles the life of Hadrian Marlowe, a palatine noble-turned-exile and his journey to become both humanity's greatest savior and its most feared destroyer, The Sun Eater. Set amidst a conflict between the galaxy-spanning Sollan Empire and the marauding alien race, the Cielcin, Hadrian details the choices that led him to end the war at the cost of the Cielcin's annihilation and countless human lives. Told in the form of a reflective memoir, the series is framed as Hadrian's own account of history, translated from Galactic Standard (Galstani) to Classical English by Tor Paulos of Nov Belgaer, a Scholiast on the Centaurine world of Colchis.
| Category | Book | Release Date | Reading Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novels | Empire of Silence | July 3, 2018 | 1.0 |
| Howling Dark | July 16, 2019 | 2.0 | |
| Demon in White | July 28, 2020 | 3.0 | |
| Kingdoms of Death | March 22, 2022 | 4.0 | |
| Ashes of Man | December 6, 2022 | 5.0 | |
| Disquiet Gods | April 2, 2024 | 6.0 | |
| Shadows Upon Time | November 18, 2025 | 7.0 | |
| The Murdered Sun* | May 26, 2025 | Non-canonical | |
| Novellas | The Lesser Devil | February 25, 2020 | 1.1 |
| Queen Amid Ashes | June 28, 2022 | 2.1 | |
| The Dregs of Empire | November 14, 2023 | 5.1 | |
| Short Story Collections | Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1 | April 16, 2021 | 2.2 |
| Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 2 | June 1, 2022 | 3.1 | |
| Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 3 | September 15, 2023 | 5.3 | |
| Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 4 | July 15, 2025 | 5.2 |
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The Sollan Empire: The largest and oldest single polity in human-controlled space, comprising some half-billion habitable planets.
The Cielcin: Spacefaring alien species. Humanoid and carnivorous. The principal enemy of humankind during the Crusade.
The Holy Terran Chantry: State religion of the Empire. Functions as the judicial arm of the state, especially where the use of forbidden technology is involved.
The Extrasolarians: Any barbarian living outside Imperial control, often possessing illegal praxis.
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