Not Exactly the Three Musketeers
core novel 1999 Guardians of the Flame
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.63 (785 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780812550467 |
| Internal chronology | 8 |
Synopsis
Not Exactly the Three Musketeers is the eighth novel in the Guardians of the Flame series, shifting its focus from the original Other Siders to a new set of protagonists serving Castle Cullinane. Three soldiers, Durine, Kethol and Pirojil, are sent by the Dowager Empress on a mission to a distant barony, where they must uncover why a young noblewoman is being forced into an unwanted marriage. What begins as a straightforward investigation draws the three soldiers into local political intrigue, testing their loyalty to the settlement's ideals against the realities of a nobility they were not raised to navigate.
Where it sits
- Universe: Guardians of the Flame
- Series: Guardians of the Flame core; position 8 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Joel Rosenberg
Notes
- From the series record (Guardians of the Flame): Ten-book series about college students transported into a role-playing-style fantasy world.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Guardians of the Flame: position 8 of 10: previous The Road Home (1995) · next Not Quite Scaramouche (2001)
Sources
← Guardians of the Flame dossier · All universes
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