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Realm of the Elderlings · Book 1

Assassin's Apprentice

by Robin Hobb

Published
1 January 1995
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780593722824
Type
novel

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Cover of Assassin's Apprentice

About this book

Assassin's Apprentice opened Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings in 1995, introducing FitzChivalry Farseer, a royal bastard trained as a covert assassin at the Farseer court -- the first of a trilogy built on court intrigue and blood magic. It runs 400 pages and is the book where the saga's central relationship, Fitz's decades-long struggle between duty and want, begins.

Its place in Realm of the Elderlings

Assassin's Apprentice is book 1 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. It is followed by Royal Assassin. See the full Realm of the Elderlings reading order.

Realm of the Elderlings is Robin Hobb's umbrella name for sixteen novels across five trilogies and quartets, all set in the same world and connected above all by FitzChivalry Farseer — a royal bastard trained as a covert assassin, bonded against every rule of his society to a wolf, and forced across decades to keep choosing duty over the one thing he actually wants. The saga opens with the Farseer trilogy's court intrigue and blood magic, widens into the Liveship Traders trilogy's sentient, memory-hungry sailing…

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