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. I would also be shocked if I remember much about this book a year from now.Magician was separated into two volumes for the United States market and published as: Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master. I will read the squeal because I promised a friend to, but would make no promises about further books as I don’t expect the squeal to be much better. Although I am less sure if Feist has ever met one. I excused many things based on this book’s age, but I am pretty sure they had women already in 1982.
She is written to be a thing for Roland and Pug to act out their own feelings/growth on. Last, I frankly wish female characters had been absent all together. Instead of making me feel like the two sides were evenly matched, instead I just switched back and forth between “oh this side should have won in like 10 seconds.” It was confusing just from a logic standpoint. Third, Feist has failed in the fact that I found it unbelievable, with a minimal understanding of tactics, that the war has gone on for so long already. Interactions between the two peoples are like they literally just discovered each other four hours ago rather than four years. Second, the people of the Kingdom of the Isles understand ridiculously little about people they have supposedly been fighting, almost non-stop, for FOUR years. It felt like every encounter between the two armies had a mandatory 6 month pause following it. You’ll think “oh it must be the next or a few days later” and Feist goes “9 months later” and it doesn’t make any sense for what has supposedly happened in that time period. However, I had a problem with the slowness, specifically the four years the war has covered just in this book (so half of the original one volume), in that it makes literally no sense.įirst, the time jumps are weird. For most of the book I was not bothered by the pace. I went in to this book knowing that it and its squeal were originally one volume so I was expecting it to be rather slow because it’s only the first half.
The overall execution of those ideas, though, was just okay. It is clearly heavily influenced by Lord of the Rings, but there were some original ideas involved.