Sir Stalwart
core novel 1999 The King's Blades
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.71 (585 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780380800988 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Stalwart, a small but quick and skilled senior student at the Ironhall academy, is expelled in public just before he would have become one of the King's Blades. His expulsion hides a larger scheme. He teams up with Emerald, a young woman recently removed from the White Sisters, to stop an assassination plot against the king and a sorcery-driven plan to destroy the kingdom. Along the way he has to face sorcery, swordplay and ambushes, and prove that he deserves a place among the Blades.
Where it sits
- Universe: The King's Blades
- Series: The King's Daggers core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Dave Duncan
Notes
- Young-adult novel; first of the three King's Daggers books.
- From the series record (The King's Daggers): A young-adult trilogy set in Chivial that fills in events around the first King's Blades novel.
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 series The King's Daggers: position 1 of 3: next The Crooked House (2000)
- Internal chronology, within The King's Blades: position 3 of 11: previous Paragon Lost (2002) · next Lord of the Fire Lands (1999)
Sources
- Open Road Media, The Monster War
- FantasticFiction, King's Daggers
- Angus & Robertson listing (HarperCollins/Avon, 1999)
- Writers Write review
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