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Sword World Novel (ソード・ワールド, sōdo wārudo) is a light novel series written by various authors. The stories take place in the world of Forcelia, a setting originally created for tabletop role-playing games. In 1988 the first Sword World book, an RPG replay, was released: Sword World RPG Replay Collection 1: The Thieves’ Rhapsody, written by Hiroshi Yamamoto and illustrated by Takuhito Kusanagi. An RPG rules book was published in 1990. It's first non-replay novelization began in 1990, with the release of A Leprechaun’s Tears, the first novel in the Sword World Short Stories (ソード・ワールド短編集, sōdo wārudo tanhenshū) light novel series.
Besides the Short Stories series and the RPG replays, there was also the Sword World Novel (ソード・ワールド・ノベル, sōdo wārudo noberu) series, which feature longer stories spread over a number of books. The Sword World stories all take place in the world of Forcelia. In 2008, a new edition of Sword World was released called "Sword World 2.0", and the world of Forcelia was replaced by that of Raxia. It was revised in 2012. In 2018, Sword World 2.5 was launched. Since 2.0 and 2.5 do not take place in the world of Forcelia, the wiki doesn't cover them.
List of novels[]
Sword World Short Stories (1990 - 2006)[]
- story: various
- illustrations: various
(19 January 1990)
(17 October 1990)
(20 May 1991)
(17 June 1991)
(17 October 1991)
(13 October 1992)
(10 September 1993)
(10 December 1993)
(10 March 1994)
(12 October 1994)
(20 October 1995)
(18 October 1996)
(20 June 1997)
(14 September 1999)
(17 October 2000)
(20 June 2001)
(18 July 2002)
(19 July 2003)
(20 February 2004)
(17 July 2004)
(19 February 2005)
(20 July 2005)
(20 January 2006)
(18 November 2006)
(20 December 2006)
Sword World Novel: The Island of the Dead God (1990)[]
- story: Keiko Shimomura
- illustrations: Takuhito Kusanagi
(16 May 1990)
(18 September 1990)
Sword World Novel: Salla’s Adventures (1991 - 2006)[]
(5 December 1991)
(18 August 1992)
(6 August 1993)
(10 March 1995)
(20 July 2005)
(20 July 2006)
(20 December 2006)
Sword World Novel: Detective Duda (1992 - 1999)[]
- story: Hitoshi Yasuda, Makoto Takai
- illustrations: Takuhito Kusanagi
(16 March 1992)
(12 March 1993)
(15 December 1994)
(19 July 1996)
(17 October 1997)
(14 September 1999)
Sword World Novel: Rune Soldier (1993 - 2012)[]
- see also: Rune Soldier (novel series)
- story: Ryo Mizuno
- illustrations: Satoshi Shiki (1993), Yokota Mamoru (1997-2012)
(3 February 1993)
(20 August 1997)
Sword World Novel: Dawn of Chaos (1993 - 1995)[]
- story: Miyuki Kiyomatsu
- illustrations: Mitsuari Sagiri
(13 July 1993)
(12 October 1993)
(10 March 1994)
(20 July 1995)
Sword World Novel: Freeman’s Sorrow (1994)[]
(12 July 1994)
(8 August 1994)
Sword World Novel: Land of Chaos (1997 - 2000)[]
(20 January 1997)
(20 May 1997)
(18 May 1999)
(14 September 2000)
Sword World Novel: Heppoko (2004 - 2008)[]
(18 September 2004)
(20 July 2006)
(20 July 2007)
(20 February 2008)
Sword World Novel: A Dark Elf’s Kiss (2006 - 2007)[]
(19 August 2006)
(20 February 2007)
(20 July 2007)
(20 December 2007)
RPG replays[]
- Sword World RPG Replay Collection 1: The Thieves’ Rhapsody
- Sword World RPG Replay Collection 2: The Monsters’ Symphony
- Sword World RPG Replay Collection 3: Endless Toccata
RPG Replay Adventure series[]
- Sword World RPG Replay Adventure 1: Belldine Frenzy!
- Sword World RPG Replay Adventure 2: Albatross Chase!
- Sword World RPG Replay Adventure 3: Tidel Mayhem!
- Sword World RPG Replay Adventure 4: Rapid turnaround at Promisie!
- Sword World RPG Replay Adventure 5: Nightbreakers Explode!
Western Countries Theatre[]
- Western Countries Theatre 1: The Return of the Dragon
- Western Countries Theatre 2: Hot-Blooded Blast! The Princess
- Western Countries Theatre 3: War in the Mirror
External links[]
- Sword World Short Stories, list of Sword World Short Stories on Kadokawa website.
- Sword World RPG related works, a list of Sword World RPG related works from the Group SNE website.