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taking the lad and training him as an assassin. For a bastard can be sent into dangers where a trueborn
son could not be risked, and may be given tasks that would soil an heirтАЩs hands.

And so FitzChivalry is trained in the secret arts of being a royal assassin. He shows a predilection for the
Wit, a beast magic much despised in the Six Duchies. This secret vice in the young assassin is tolerated,
for a partnership with an animal may be a useful trait in an assassin. When it is discovered that he may
possess the hereditary magic of the Farseers, the Skill, he becomes both the KingтАЩs weapon and an
obstacle to Prince RegalтАЩs ambitions for the throne. At a time when the rivalry for the throne is intense,
and the Outislanders and their Red Ship raiders are bringing war to the Six Duchies, FitzChivalry
discovers that the fate of the kingdom may very well rest on the actions of a young bastard and the
KingтАЩs Fool. Armed with little more than loyalty and his sporadic talent for the old magic, Fitz follows
the fading trail of King Verity, who has traveled beyond the Mountain Kingdom and into the realm of
the legendary Elderlings, in what may be a vain hope to renew an old alliance.

The Liveship Traders Trilogytakes place in Jamaillia, Bingtown, and the Pirate Isles, on the coast far to
the south of the Six Duchies. The war in the north has interrupted the trade that is the lifeblood of
Bingtown, and the Liveship Traders have fallen on hard times despite their magic sentient ships. At one
time, possession of a Liveship, constructed of magical wizardwood, guaranteed a TraderтАЩs family
prosperity. Only a Liveship can brave the dangers of the Rain Wild River and trade with the legendary
Rain Wild Traders and their mysterious magical goods, plundered from the enigmatic Elderling ruins.
Althea Vestrit expects her families to adhere to tradition and pass the family Liveship on to her when it
quickens at the death of her father. Instead, theVivacia goes to her sister Keffria and her scheming
Chalcedean husband, Kyle. The proud Liveship becomes a transport vessel for the despised but highly
profitable slave trade.

Althea, cast out on her own, resolves to make her own way in the world and somehow regain control of
her familyтАЩs living ship. Her old shipmate Brashen Trell, the mysterious woodcarver Amber, and
theParagon , the notorious mad Liveship, are the only allies she can rally to her cause. Pirates, a slave
rebellion, migrating sea serpents, and a newly hatched dragon are but a few of the obstacles she must
face on her way to discovering that Liveships are not, perhaps, what they seem to be, and may have
dreams of their own to follow.

The Tawny Man Trilogy,a work still in progress at this writing, picks up the tale of Fitz and the Fool
some fifteen years after the Red Ship wars. Queen Kettricken is determined to secure her sonтАЩs throne by
arranging a marriage between Prince Dutiful and Elliana, the daughter of their old enemies in the
Outislands. But the Six Duchies themselves are restless. The Witted are weary of persecution, and may
choose to topple the throne of the Farseers by revealing that young Prince Dutiful carries an old taint in
his blood. The Narcheska Elliana sets a high price on her hand: Dutiful must present her with the head of
Icefyre, the legendary dragon of Aslevjal Island.

Meanwhile, to the south, the Bingtown Traders continue to wage war against the Chalcedeans, and seek


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to enlist the Six Duchies into the effort to obliterate Chalced. BingtownтАЩs temperamental ally, the dragon
Tintaglia, has her own reasons for supporting them in this, reasons that may lead not only to the
restoration of the race of dragons but also to the return of Elderling magic to the Cursed Shores.