The Hounds of God is the concluding novel in a trilogy about the earthly life of Alf, the elven priest. The first book is The Isle of Glass, and the second is The Golden Horn. Events in these two books take place about twenty years before the third book opens.

This trilogy is also related to Alamut (1989). Aidan, Gwydion's brother and a minor character in The Hounds of God, is the male protagonist of Alamut. It is set around a century before the events of the trilogy.