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. Plot Īt Crydee, Pug, an orphan boy, is apprenticed to a master magician. Feist wanted to make sure any re-issue included new material so restored some scenes he felt were important but also retained some of the original cuts. It was republished in 1992 in a 10th Anniversary edition entitled "The Author's Preferred Edition" containing scenes that had been cut from the original. The book is still published as a single volume, titled Magician, in the UK. Magician was separated into two volumes for the United States market and published as: Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master. The book was written between 19 and published in 1982 by Doubleday books. He graduated in 1977 and stated that the idea for a novel involving a boy magician came to him soon after. Feist was a fan of role-playing games and says that the broad idea for Midkemia came out of his time as a student at University of California, San Diego, where a group of friends invented the world and some of the core mechanics (such as the magic system). Magician is Feist's first published novel.