As the dead rise and assassins stalk the darkness Arutha must rally the Kingdom forces swiftly if he is to save his beautiful princess felled by a poisoned arrow on her wedding day and prevent a madman from destroying Midkemia.Ī Darkness at Sethanon: The Triumphant Finale to the Riftwar Saga (Riftwar Saga 3)Ī Darkness at Sethanon completes the 'Riftworld saga' which started with Feist's Magician. When Jimmy the Hand a young thief in the Guild of Mockers upsets an assassination attempt on Arutha a sinister plot is uncovered.

But the capital in the west harbours many shadows. Feists highly acclaimed epic fantasy Riftwar Saga With the Kingdom of the Isles at peace Prince Arutha can at last look forward to marrying the Princess Anita in the city of Krondor. A magical rift in time-space brings these two worlds clashing together and the young boy Pug and his soldier friend Tomas are thrown into the ensuing maelstrom of invasion and epic battle before embarking on a more fundamental magical journey Feist's genius was inventing another sword and sorcery realm based more closely on eastern models the Empire of Tsuranuanni as vast as Ancient China as formalised and devoted to the arts of war as a samurai Japan. Midkemia is a Tolkienian realm a European- Medieval series of kingdoms in which magic is prominent and where men share the earth with dwarves and elves. His 'concept' was to bring together two (and later more) whole intricately realised fantasy worlds. When Raymond Feist's enormous novel was published critics called it 'the best new fantasy concept in years' and Feist has refined and explored that concept over a dozen novels.

Like a venerable patriarch Magician stands at the head of a great tribe of fantasy writing.

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