The Shadow of What Was Lost
James Islington
The Licanius Trilogy, Book 1 of 3
Twenty years after a war the Gifted lost, the last of them live under strict terms at a remote school. When one of the students is about to face the test that decides the rest of his life, he leaves. The first book of a trilogy. This description stays spoiler free and names only the starting point.

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington has 54 chapters and is listed here in 4 editions. Book clubs agree on chapters and never on pages, because every edition counts differently.
Editions
Sections are agreed by chapter and never by page. A page number from the paperback does not hold in the audiobook, a chapter does.
Chapter starts have not been verified for this edition. Notes are therefore delivered with a safety margin, so later rather than earlier.
- 54chaptersThe Shadow of What Was LostOrbit, 2017Die Originalausgabe.ENPaperback
- 54chaptersDas Erbe der SeherKnaur Taschenbuch, 2017. Translated by Ruggero LeòDEPaperback
- 54chaptersDas Erbe der SeherKnaur eBook, 2017. Translated by Ruggero LeòDEEbook
- 54chaptersThe shadow of what was lost, Buch eins der Licanius-Trilogieadrian und wimmelbuchverlag, 2026Deutscher Text trotz englischem Titel. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek führt sie unter der Reihe "Licanius-Trilogie" und nennt keine Übersetzerin und keinen Übersetzer, anders als bei den Knaur-Ausgaben. Deshalb ist für diese Ausgabe keine Kapitelgliederung hinterlegt: ohne bekannte Übersetzung sind die Kapitelanfänge nicht übertragbar. Bestätigt am 2026-07-31 über die SRU-Schnittstelle der DNB.DEPaperback
Reading order
The book belongs to the series "The Licanius Trilogy" and is book 1 of 3. Anyone reading it from the start begins here.
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