Elves on the Road Universe

## Genre Information

Urban Fantasy
Low Fantasy

Myths and Legends
Metapsychics

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## About the Series

* **Authors:** Mercedes Lackey, Ellen Guon, Rosemary Edghill
* **Genres:** Urban Fantasy, Low Fantasy, Myths and Legends, Metapsychics,
* **Theme:** Low Fantasy, where the humans do not know of the existence of the paranormal or supernatural all around them.
* **Narrative style:**

## Universe Description

### Diana Tregarde Investigations

Diana Tregarde is a Guardian, someone who has been given extra magical power in order to help others. She is also a Wiccan and a romance novelist.

### Scepter'd Isle series

aka "Doubled Edge" series

Set during the time of King Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth, this is a prequel to The SERRAted Edge series. The role that the Elves of England played in the royal succession.

### The SERRAted Edge

This series centers on hot cars, fast elves, and rock-n-roll. Good elves are intrigued by stock car racing, and bad elves run kiddie-porn and drug rings. Trapped in between are three runaways who are in serious trouble and about to get into more—unwitting pawns in a deadly game between good and evil.

Tannim is a human mage with a taste for fast cars and loud music. Among his friends are Ross Canfield, a good old Southern boy who just happens to be dead and Keighvin, an elf lord who has been targeted for termination by a horde of evil elves, with the assistance of a vindictive banshee. Caught in the middle are three runaway kids in serious trouble, used as bait to trap Tannim and Keighvin.

If that wasn't enough, Tannim's predilection for dangerous women just went from dangerous to lethal. He thinks he's found Ms. Right, but there are three tiny problems: 1) Her father is a dragon. 2) She's not human though she definitely is a fox. 3) She seems to want to kill him... Tannim's magery is sometimes erratic - but his talent for getting himself into trouble is perfect!

### Bedlam Bards series

A young flautist plays the blues on a street corner and awakes an elf from his enchantment, thus begins the adventures of Eric Banner as he discovers that there is more to the world then what he had ever suspected. He and his new friend first fights an evil Elf that is trying to conquer California.

When Eric moves to New York to study at Julliard he discovers more evil dark Elves trying to take over the human world. All while he is studying at Julliard, learning the magic in his music, taking on an apprentice, falling in love and protecting his younger brother from the Unseleighe.

### Series in this World

* Diana Tregarde Investigations
	+ plus the Novel - Sacred Ground (1994)
* Scepter'd Isle series - Historical prequel to *The SERRAted Edge series*
* The SERRAted Edge series
* Bedlam Bards series

### Books in Order

Elves on the Road Universe

* Mall Elves and How They Grew (2005) by Mercedes Lackey
	+ Serrated Edge
		1. Born to Run (1992) by Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey
		2. Wheels of Fire (1992) by Mercedes Lackey and Mark Shepherd
		3. When the Bough Breaks (1993) by Mercedes Lackey and Holly Lisle
		4. Chrome Circle (1994) by Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey
		5. Elvendude (1994) by Mark Shepherd
		6. Spiritride (1997) by Mark Shepherd
		7. Lazerwarz (1999) by Mark Shepherd
		8. Silence (2016) by Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin
		9. The Waters and the Wild (2019) by Rosemary Edghill and Mercedes Lackey
		10. Breaking Silence (2020) by Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin
		- Afterword (Born to Run) (1992) by Jim Baen and Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey and T. K. F. Weisskopf [only as by Jim Baen and Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey and Toni Weisskopf]
		- The Chrome Borne (1999) by Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey
		- The Otherworld (2000) by Mercedes Lackey and Holly Lisle and Mark Shepherd
		- Serrated Edge Prequels
			1. This Scepter'd Isle (2004) by Roberta Gellis and Mercedes Lackey
			2. Ill Met by Moonlight (2005) by Roberta Gellis and Mercedes Lackey
			3. By Slanderous Tongues (2007) by Roberta Gellis and Mercedes Lackey
			4. And Less Than Kind (2008) by Roberta Gellis and Mercedes Lackey
	+ Diana Tregarde
		- 0.25 Arcanum 101 (2010) by Mercedes Lackey
		- 0.75 Nightside (1989) by Mercedes Lackey [also as by Mercedes R. Lackey]
		1. Children of the Night (1990) by Mercedes Lackey
		2. Burning Water (1989) by Mercedes Lackey
		3. Jinx High (1991) by Mercedes Lackey
		- 3.25 Satanic, Versus ... (1990)by Mercedes Lackey also appeared as: Variant: Satanic, Versus (2011)
		- 3.5 Killer Byte (1994) by Mercedes Lackey
		- Diana Tregarde Investigates (2006) by Mercedes Lackey
		- Magic 101 (2014) by Mercedes Lackey
		- Witching Hour (2014) by Mercedes Lackey
	+ Bedlam Bard / Urban Elves
		1. Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (1990) by Ellen Guon and Mercedes Lackey
		2. Summoned to Tourney (1992) by Ellen Guon and Mercedes Lackey
		3. Bedlam Boyz (1993) by Ellen Guon
		4. Beyond World's End (2001) by Rosemary Edghill and Mercedes Lackey
		5. Spirits White as Lightning (2001) by Rosemary Edghill and Mercedes Lackey
		6. Mad Maudlin (2003) by Rosemary Edghill and Mercedes Lackey
		7. Music to My Sorrow (2005) by Rosemary Edghill and Mercedes Lackey
		- Bedlam's Bard (1992) by Ellen Guon and Mercedes Lackey
		- Devil Went Down to Georgia (2005) by Mercedes Lackey
		- Unleaving (2005) by India Edghill
		- Old Order (2005) by Michael Longcor
		- Well Met by Moonlight (2005) by Diana L. Paxson
		- The World's More Full of Weeping (2005) by Rosemary Edghill
		- The Waters and the Wild (2005) by Mercedes Lackey
		- The Remover of Difficulties (2005) by Ashley McConnell
		- Bright As Diamonds (2005) by Barb Caffrey and Michael B. Caffrey
		- Bottle of Djinn (2005) by Roberta Gellis
		- Red Fiddler (2005) by Eric Flint and Dave Freer
		- Unnatural History (2005) by Sarah A. Hoyt
		- All That Jazz (2005) by Jenn Saint-John
		- Six-Shooter (2005) by Ellen Guon
		- Bedlam's Edge (2005) by Rosemary Edghill and Mercedes Lackey
		- A Host of Furious Fancies (2012) by Rosemary Edghill and Mercedes Lackey

### Stand alone Novels

* *The Waters and the Wild* (2019) (with Rosemary Edghill)

### Shorts

* *The Red Fiddler (Bedlam's Bards 8.5)* by Eric Flint - The Red Fiddler is a story set in Mercedes Lackey's "Bedlam's Edge" universe.

## World Building

### Setting

This universe is set in a warped contemporary world featuring elves and magic where the humans have no idea that Elves and others exist.

### Fantasy Elements

Psychic, elves, werewolves, psychic vampires (suck life force), blood-drinking vampires, witches, Aztec gods, nullity (kills magic), sorcerers, Native American mythology.

### World

Elves and banshees and various creatures and circumstances of the Irish and Scottish mythology are real. The good elves are relatively well-disposed toward humans, and will generally help people, and the bad ones hate humans and will try to do them harm.

## References

1. ↑ The Internet Speculative Fiction Database