Servant of the Crown
novella 2014 The Powder Mage
Record
| First published | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novella |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780996232319 |
Synopsis
Also set about thirty-five years before Promise of Blood, this novella follows a young Tamas, a commoner rising through the ranks of the Adran army long before he becomes a central figure in the Powder Mage trilogy. After dueling the son of a duke over an insult, Tamas is pulled into the orbit of the nobility and the kingdom's royal sorcerers, and finds himself drawn into a conflict reaching all the way to the highest office in the land. His unlikely ally is Erika, a noblewoman who asks him to teach her the ways of a powder mage in exchange for her help. The story traces how a low-born soldier's skill and ambition begin to entangle him in the political intrigue of a kingdom that has little patience for men of his birth wielding real power.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Powder Mage
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Brian McClellan
Notes
- Collected in In the Field Marshal's Shadow (2015).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within The Powder Mage (standalone work): position 5 of 13: previous Forsworn (2014) · next Murder at the Kinnen Hotel (2014)
Sources
← The Powder Mage dossier · All universes
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