The Riftwar Saga is a series of fantasy novels by Raymond E. Feist. A book series is a sequence of books with common characteristics, typically marketed as a group by a particular author or publisher. ... // For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, games and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Raymond E. Feist (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is an American author, mostly specialising in fantasy fiction. ...

Concept

In the fantasy novels of Feist, a Riftwar is war between two worlds that are connected by some sort of dimensionless gap. In Feist's invented history there are several riftwars. The first Riftwar between Midkemia and Kelewan is described in the trilogy The Riftwar Saga. Other such wars may be described in future works. Midkemia is the fictional world on which most of the stories in Raymond E. Feists Riftwar series of fantasy novels are set, except for the three Empire novels set on Kelewan which were co-written with Janny Wurts. ... Kelewan is one of the fictional worlds described by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. ...

Works in the Series

Magician

Magician was first published in 1982. It is the first book of the Riftwar trilogy or Saga. It led to many books written by Feist in the world of Midkemia, which was the setting for this book. Originally reduced in size by his editors, it was re-published (after the author's fame grew) with the omitted text restored. Magician is now published in two volumes: Magician: Apprentice (ISBN 0553564943) and Magician: Master (ISBN 0553564935). Midkemia is the fictional world on which most of the stories in Raymond E. Feists Riftwar series of fantasy novels are set, except for the three Empire novels set on Kelewan which were co-written with Janny Wurts. ...

Plot

Magician describes the adventures of a young man (Pug) and his friend (Tomas) during the Riftwar. Early on in the book, invaders from another world known as Kelewan invade through portals known as "rifts". The invaders, a warlike folk known as the Tsurani, start a 9-year war, which is known as the Riftwar. Pug and Tomas stay together for the first half of the book, but they are split up by a mishap, which leads to Pug eventually being captured by the Tsurani, and spending four years on their home planet - Kelewan as a slave. He is discovered to possess magical powers, becomes a Tsurani Magician, and receives the new name "Milamber". After trying to fit into the Tsurani culture, he eventually realises it is far too different, and - following his destruction of the "Imperial Games" (similar to the Gladiatorial Games of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome) - he returns to his homeworld with his wife and young son and plays a key-role in the destruction of the Rift. Pug is a fictional character that appears in the fantasy books of Raymond E. Feist. ... The Tsurani are a race of humans that live upon the fictional world of Kelewan and make up The Empire of the Tsuranuanni, devised by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. ... The Tsurani are a race of humans that live upon the fictional world of Kelewan and make up The Empire of the Tsuranuanni, devised by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. ... Kelewan is one of the fictional worlds described by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. ... The Tsurani are a race of humans that live upon the fictional world of Kelewan and make up The Empire of the Tsuranuanni, devised by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. ... The term magician can refer to a practitioner of either paranormal magic or illusionism. ... Pollice Verso, an 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is a well known history painters researched conception of a gladiatorial combat. ... The Colosseum in Rome, Italy: an exterior view of the best-preserved section. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ...

Tomas, on the other hand, discovers some magic armour that slowly changes him into the age-old Lord Ashen Shugar, one of a powerful race of beings known as the Valheru, who used to rule the universe before they were killed by the current Gods. He becomes increasingly violent and joins the elves in their forest-home, until he finally has a confrontation with himself, and he manages to curb his murderous alternate personality This has then net result that he has the mind of Tomas, but has the power of Ashen Shugar. A hoplite wearing (only) a helmet, breastplate greaves and a shield. ... Valheru are an ancient and powerful men-like race in the books of Raymond E. Feist. ... For alternate meanings, see Lightning (disambiguation). ...

The third protagonist, Arutha ConDoin, son of Duke Borric of Crydee (from where both Pug and Tomas originate), travels to the capital of the Kingdom in order to summon the troops needed to defeat the Tsurani. However, instead of the hoped-for aid, he finds that the current king, Rodric the Fourth, has gone insane, and flees back to fight the Tsurani.

The rift is closed in a violent way after the sorcerer - Macros the Black - tricks the elves and Tomas into thinking that the Tsurani (brought to the Peace Table after the destruction of the Games) in fact are plotting treason. King Rodric has already died in the last great conflict against the Tsurani, and Lyam, Arutha's older brother, is named heir to the throne. Look up Sorcerer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation or state. ... For other uses, see inheritance (disambiguation). ...

Lyam becomes King, Arutha takes the mantle of the Prince of Krondor, who is the regent of the western half of the kingdom and also heir to the Throne (until Lyam has a son - if ever). Martin, who we discover is actually the oldest bastard son, takes over the role of his father as Duke of Crydee, as Borric had also died in the war. For other uses, see inheritance (disambiguation). ...

The novel covers a fourteen-year timespan, and certain events from this book cross over with Servant of the Empire, a novel co written by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. The Empire Trilogy is a collaboration between Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. ... Raymond E. Feist (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is an American author, mostly specialising in fantasy fiction. ... Janny Wurts is an author and illustrator of fantasy fiction books. ...

Silverthorn

Silverthorn is the sequel to Magician.

In Silverthorn a new evil power rises. The name of this Powerful being is Murmandamus, and he has two highly placed henchmen - Murad, a Moredhel (cousin to the elves) and a Pantathian Serpent Priest, a race so evil few other races have dealings with them. Murad has the power to raise the dead and makes corpses do battle with the living. He is acting on the advice of a prophesy that mentions a person known as the "Lord of the West". It is assumed by Murmandamus that this means the Prince of Krondor - Arutha conDoin. The word Henchman referred originally to one who attended on a horse, that is, a groom. ... This page deals with the cessation of life. ... With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. ...

When an assassin misses his target and instead fells his bride on her wedding day with a deadly poison, Arutha must travel beyond the border to a strange place inhabited by the Moredhel, or "Brothers of the Dark Path". There he has to find Silverthorn, the antidote to the poison his wife has been felled with.

In addition, Pug is forced to return to Kelewan to see if the Tsurani can shed any light on the Silverthorn mystery. After his destruction of the "Imperial Games" in Magician, Pug/Milamber is now a wanted man and is arrested and imprisoned. He uses the magical powers that gained on Midkemia as opposed to the ones he learned on Kelewan - as he is held by magical powers that cannot defend themselves against Pugs' Midkemian magic. At the end of the novel, Pug goes to the northern polar regions of Kelewan and finds a people long thought dead. He is told he will learn from them for around a year... Kelewan is one of the fictional worlds described by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. ... The Tsurani are a race of humans that live upon the fictional world of Kelewan and make up The Empire of the Tsuranuanni, devised by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. ... Midkemia is the fictional world on which most of the stories in Raymond E. Feists Riftwar series of fantasy novels are set, except for the three Empire novels set on Kelewan which were co-written with Janny Wurts. ...

A Darkness at Sethanon

A Darkness at Sethanon (1986) details how Murmandamus, a new Dark Elf prince marshals the forces of the Moredhel, and invades the kingdom, with the intent of finding the Lifestone, with which he will be able to destroy every living thing in the world, so as to resurrect the Valheru Lords of old. Only Pug and Tomas, can stop this new evil, thereby ending the Riftwar. Arutha, Prince of Krondor, uses an attempted assassination as a ruse to fake his own death so that he may travel north to confront Murmandamus. Meanwhile, Pug and Tomas begin searching the world, and eventually beyond, for the famed sorcerer Macros the Black thought killed when he helped to destroy the rift at then end of Magician.