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STATUS: As of October 2022, Erikson says he has written several hundred pages of the novel, but further work has been postponed until he completes No Life Forsaken. Work on Walk in Shadow should resume in the Spring of 2023.[1]

Walk in Shadow is the expected title of the final book in Steven Erikson's Kharkanas Trilogy. In a 2017 interview, Erikson stated there would "be plenty of surprising reveals in [Walk in Shadow], primarily centered on the creation of the three warrens of Dark, Light and Shadow."

In October 2017, Erikson announced that Walk in Shadow would be delayed while he instead worked on the first book of the Witness Trilogy. This decision was made after he became aware of the unexpectedly low sales of the first two books in the prequel series, Forge of Darkness and Fall of Light.

On 22 July 2020, Erikson announced that with the manuscript of The God is Not Willing completed, he was ready to begin writing Walk in Shadow.[2] In April 2022, Erikson said the novel was proving to be "a monster. It's going to take a couple years at least [to complete]."[3]

Erikson says Olar Ethil will have a "fairly major role" in the book with sections written from her point of view.[4]

Trivia[]

  • Erikson discusses the process of writing the first chapter of the book in a post on his Facebook page.
  • In an October 2022 interview, Erikson said there was a possibility that the Kallor material would be spun off into its own book.[5]

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