The events of the fourth book take place around 250 years later and focus on the return of Tungdil from out of the Black Abyss. Terrible death machines bring doom to the dwarves' tunnels, magical monstrosities threaten the fate of the land and it all but looks like the thirdlings are about to play their final and deadliest gambit. Evil still exists, however, and it strikes back in full force as if to make Girdlegard pay for the 5 years of peace it got. Avatars of the evil god Tion have amassed their armies and prepare themselves for an invasion while the thirdlings have nefarious plans of their own.īy the time of the third book (around 5 years later) Tungdil has become an alcoholic, drinking his sorrows away. In the second book The War of the Dwarves Girdlegard faces a new threat.

Gandogar, aided by his advisor Bislipur, seeks to take the throne of the fourthling kingdom from the aging king, and declare war on their old enemy, the elves. In the fourthling kingdom, things are not going well either. The Perished Land moves south once again. Meanwhile in the fifthling kingdom, northernmost of the dwarven kingdoms, the guardians of the pass to the Perished Land are overrun, by forces of darkness from without and treachery from within. After a student's prank on Tungdil goes wrong, Lot-Ionan sends Tungdil on a journey to return some things to an old apprentice, while insinuating that he doesn't mind if it takes a while. He is a foundling and knows nothing of the dwarves, apart from what he has gleaned from Lot-Ionan's books, and is dying to meet 'real' dwarves. Tungdil is a blacksmith, working in the village surrounding the home of the magus Lot-Ionan. The first five novels follow the character of Tungdil Goldhand. Die Rückkehr der Zwerge (2021) ('The Return of the Dwarves').The Triumph of the Dwarves (2015) ( Der Triumph der Zwerge).The Fate of the Dwarves (2008) ( Das Schicksal der Zwerge).The Revenge of the Dwarves (2005) ( Die Rache der Zwerge).The War of the Dwarves (2004) ( Der Krieg der Zwerge).He strives to give us a new take on dwarf tropes, while at the same time managing to play them completely straight.

The Dwarves is a series of fantasy novels by German author Markus Heitz.

Die Zwerge by Markus Heitz