- Fantasy, Orphans, Fiction, Midkemia (Imaginary place)
Young Tal Hawkins was the only survivor of the massacre of his village -- rescued, recruited, and trained by the mysterious order of magicians and spies, the Conclave of Shadows.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Raymond E. Feist
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Mynx, Boekerij
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Dutch, tur, German, French
- ISBN
- 9781094132549
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Raymond Elias Feist (born Raymond Elias Gonzales III; December 21, 1945) is an American author known for his epic fantasy series, *The Riftwar Cycle*. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Southern California, Feist adopted the surname of his stepfather, Felix E. Feist, after his mother remarried. He graduated with honors from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Arts. Feist's journey into writing began during his college years when he and his friends created the role-playing game *Midkemia* as an alternative to *Dungeons & Dragons*. This game served as the foundation for his first novel, [*Magician*][4], published in 1982, which introduced readers to the
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