The Death Gate Cycle is a seven-part series of fantasy novels written by Margaret
Weis and Tracy Hickman. The main conflict is between two powerful races, the Sartan
and the Patryns, which branched off from humans following a nuclear holocaust.
Centuries prior to the events of the series, the Sartan attempted to end the conflict
by sundering the earth into four elemental realms, and imprisoning the Patryn in
a fifth prison world, the Labyrinth. The Sartan took up stewardship of the elemental
realms, but soon mysteriously lost contact with each other and disappeared. Centuries
later, a Patryn known as Xar escaped the Labyrinth, and started returning to the
Labyrinth to rescue others. He learned how to access the other worlds and dreamed
of freeing all his people from the Labyrinth and conquering the other worlds.

The books follow the fiercely independent Haplo, a Patryn agent sent to scout the
elemental worlds and throw them into chaos in preparation for his Lord's conquest
of them. Weis and Hickman created five distinct fantasy worlds during the course of
the series, along with developing the cultures of five major races, their unique
Patryn and Sartan, and the common fantasy races of dwarves, elves, and humans.

Novels

* Dragon Wing (February 1990)
* Elven Star (November 1990)
* Fire Sea (August 1991)
* Serpent Mage (April 1992)
* The Hand of Chaos (April 1993)
* Into the Labyrinth (December 1993)
* The Seventh Gate (September 1994)

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