If Morgaine’s implacable drive to shut the Gates — dragging Vanye across clan feuds and winter passes — kept you turning pages, you’ll vibe with Gully Foyle’s singular vendetta in The Stars My Destination. Like Morgaine, Foyle turns every encounter into a step toward an unforgiving goal, and the plot hurtles forward with that same do-or-die momentum.

In Gate of Ivrel, the Gates read like sorcery to Vanye’s people even as Morgaine treats them as dangerous tech to be sealed. Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer delivers that same frisson: relics and devices in a dying world that seem magical until you glimpse the decayed science beneath. If the mystery and peril of the Gates hooked you, Severian’s haunted trek through Urth will, too.

If you appreciated the cold, flinty atmosphere of Vanye’s oath-bound service and Morgaine’s willingness to pay terrible costs to seal a Gate, The Black Company matches that grit. Croaker’s chronicles are full of muddy battlefields, moral compromises, and survival by wits and steel — the same hard-edged mood that made Gate of Ivrel so compelling.

Vanye’s narrow, personal path — exile, oath to Morgaine, and constant navigation of clan politics — echoes in Fitz’s story in Assassin’s Apprentice. It’s an intimate, character-centered narrative where one person’s loyalties and hard-earned skills determine whether they make it through intrigue and betrayal.

Morgaine’s ruthless calculus and Vanye’s conflicted honor create a moral gray zone in Gate of Ivrel. In Use of Weapons, Cheradenine Zakalwe operates in that same shadowed space — brilliant, effective, and compromised — where each mission’s success hides a wound. If you were drawn to the way Morgaine and Vanye do what must be done, even when it scars them, this will hit home.