The Twilight Reign

The Twilight Reign is a five book series witten by Tom Lloyd.

In the world known as The Land Isak is a white-eye, a mutation that make men stronger, bloodthirsty, charismatic and white eyed. The are both feared and despised. Enslaved to his father, Isak dreams of escape, but when his chance comes, it isn't to a place in the army as he'd expected. Instead, the Gods have marked him out as heir to Lord Bahl the Lord of the Farlan and leader of The Ghosts. In a world war and destiny  Can Isak hold his own?

Not to be confused with a certain other Twilight franchise.


 * The Stormcaller (2006)
 * The Twilight Herald (2007)
 * The Grave Thief (2008)
 * The Ragged Man (2010)
 * The Dusk Watchman (TBA)

This series provides examples of:

 * The Berserker: White-eyes are this trope.
 * Cosmic Keystone: The cystal skulls
 * Death By Childbirth: All white-eyes are born too large and end up killing their mothers at birth.
 * Our Elves Are Better: Played straight and subverted. The elves were originally much taller than humans, possessing superhuman strength, magic powers and great beauty as well, so the elves ruled the world enjoying favoured status from the gods while humans seem to be just another lackey species. But the greatest of them, their king led them in a rebellion against the gods. The resulting war devastates the world and kills a few gods including some of the from the highest ranks. The victorious gods curse the elves to become stunted and ugly, they also create the white-eyes amongst humans who are a match in size, strength and magic to the old elves. But even though the curse has been in effect for thousands of years, every so often a rare elf atavism is born who has all the looks and powers of the old elves.
 * Meaningful Name: While not quite explicit enough to be considered Exactly What It Says On The Tin, each title in the book refers to an important character who has that title role applied to him based on his actions.
 * Gods Need Prayer Badly: The gods in the series are dependent on the faith of their worshippers in order to sustain their identities. The gods are truly immortal, even when they are killed a spark of them still remain in existence but without faith to sustain their identity a god falls apart until it's almost a catatonic shadow with no way of climbing back up to godhood.
 * Clothes Make the Superman: The main character is already superhuman, but one of the gifts he gets from the gods is the greatest armor ever made. This was the personal armor of the last king, the elf who rebelled against the gods. It was extremely difficult to pierce unless the foe had superhuman strength and enchanted weapons, it could alter its shape somewhat to fit the current wearer and it was incredibly flexible to the point where the last king was nicknamed the elven equivalent of Quicksilver.
 * Cool Sword: With some rather generous gods and a LOT of highly magical people, enchanted weapons are almost mass-produced. They're common to the point that elite military units have them as standard issue. But for the really special weapons, there's Eolis a sword that had been used to kill gods and Kobra which is notorious for having fangs along its guard and being one of the mightiest weapons in the land - having been used to kill a demon prince, a dragon and countless mortals. Even greater than those two, is the last sword forged by the king of the elves and a sword lost by the Queen of the gods.