The original D&D campaign which he based his books on had an invasion of the Midkemia world by Tekumel.
Barker's Empire of the Petal Throne was the source for much of Kelewan. įeist acknowledged that the Tekumel setting from M. The book placed 89th on the BBC's 2003 list " The Big Read Top 100". It relies heavily on generalized characters and landscapes but after a slow start Feist gets everything in perspective, emphasizing the distances and difficulties of stopping this war nobody really wanted to start."
Lyam chooses to reveal Martin's birthright on the eve of his selection and coronation, threatening to throw the Kingdom into turmoil and potential civil war, but Martin relinquishes his claim, making Lyam the rightful king and ending any possibility of dispute.Ĭolin Greenland reviewed Magician for Imagine magazine, and stated that "There isn't really anything original about Magician. The Tsurani, who expect to be put to death as is custom on their world, are instead granted freedom in return for their pledge of service to the Kingdom, and are stationed in LaMut with Kasumi made Earl and given command. Macros enlists Pug's help to close the rift once and for all, and the connection between the two worlds is severed, leaving numerous stranded Tsurani soldiers in Midkemia, including Kasumi. Due to the interference of powerful and mysterious sorcerer Macros the Black, the elves and dwarves mistakenly perceive treachery, and the truce dissolves into an all-out conflict. During the peace conference, the two rulers, with Pug as the interpreter, begin on good terms by exchanging gifts.
With Rodric's death, Lyam assumes command and sues for a peace treaty with the Emperor Ichindar. While dying, the King's sanity seems to return and he apologizes to Lyam and names him heir to the throne. King Rodric himself then leads a charge against the Tsurani, breaking their ranks and driving them back, but suffering a mortal wound. Shortly after, King Rodric appears at the camp after hearing the news of Borric's death. Upon Borric’s death, Lyam becomes Duke of Crydee and commander of the Armies of the West. Duke Borric also reveals that Martin is his son and the older brother to Lyam and Arutha. Meanwhile, a fellow slave, Laurie, along with a Tsurani warrior, Kasumi, embark on a secret errand of peace from the Tsurani Emperor to King Rodric in Rillanon, but also fail to persuade the mad king.ĭiscovering that Pug is alive and prospering as a magician, the dying Duke Borric reveals that he has adopted Pug into his family, also giving him an island – Stardock, where Pug is to begin an academy of magic. After years of stalemate fighting on Midkemia by the two opposing forces, Pug returns as a magician, a Great One, the Tsurani name for master practitioners of magic. The Duke's troops engage in a fierce battle in an effort to locate and destroy the rift in spacetime which gives access to the Tsurani, but Pug is captured and taken back through the rift to Kelewan, the Tsurani homeworld, as a slave. War erupts between the Midkemians and the otherworldly Tsurani. Once there, however they are refused any help from the King Rodric, who suffers from madness and delusions, and they are turned away. Shortly after arriving in Krondor, Lord Borric’s band are instructed to carry on to Rillanon, the capital of the kingdom.
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Their party is attacked, however, by dark elves and they are rescued by dwarves and their leader Dolgan who leads them through a series of mines to the coast. A struggling student of magic, he rises to high station by saving Princess Carline, Duke Borric’s daughter, from mountain trolls and becomes a squire of the Duke's court.įollowing the discovery of a foreign ship wrecked after a storm and reports of bizarrely dressed warriors appearing in the forests, Pug’s liege, Lord Borric sets out for Krondor, the capital of the western realm of the kingdom, to convey the news and ask for aid. In the twelfth year of the reign of Rodric the Fourth, an orphaned kitchen boy named Pug is made an apprentice magician to the magician Kulgan in Crydee. Pug and his friend Tomas are swept up into the conflict, with Pug's destiny leading him through a rift to a new world. Suddenly the Kingdom is aswarm with alien invaders, destroying the peace of the kingdom. The book is still published as a single volume, titled Magician, in the UK.Īt Crydee, Pug, an orphan boy, is apprenticed to a master magician. Magician was separated into two volumes for the United States market and published as: Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master.