Snizort is a fictional place in Ian Irvine's The Three Worlds Cycle. Ian Irvine (born 1950 is an Australian Fantasy /eco- thriller author and marine scientist. The Three Worlds Cycle is a series of novels written by author Ian Irvine. It is the destruction of the node at Snizort that forms the Profane Tears, Gatherer and Reaper, the source of power of the terrible God-Emperor Jal Nish Hlar. The Well of Echoes is a quartet of novels written by Ian Irvine and is the second arc of The Three Worlds Cycle series God Emperor of Dune is a Science fiction novel by Frank Herbert published in 1981, the fourth in the Dune series Jal-Nish Hlar is a main character in Ian Irvine 's The Well of Echoes quartet and the Song of the Tears trilogy