The Aspect-Emperor is a four volume series of fantasy novels written by Canadian author R. Scott Bakker.
It is part of his Second Apocalypse series, and takes place twenty years after the events of his debut trilogy The Prince of Nothing.
[6] Due to the length of the manuscript the book was split into two volumes—the first being The Great Ordeal and the second The Unholy Consult.
Adam Whitehead of The Wertzone gave The Unholy Consult a 4.5/5 rating and described the ending of the Aspect-Emperor series as "epic and impressive" with "tremendously satisfying character moments" and "Bakker's best-ever action scenes" despite being "perhaps less elegantly structured as a novel than some of its forebears".
[9] In July 2019, Forbes contributor Erik Kain said that The Aspect Emperor as a whole was "a pretty massive letdown".