Realm of the Elderlings · Book 3
Assassin's Quest
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 757
- ISBN-13
- 9781400144365
- Type
- novel
About this book
Assassin's Quest closes out the Farseer trilogy in 1997, the third entry in the Realm of the Elderlings at 757 pages. It completes the self-contained arc many readers stop at, before Robin Hobb widens the world into the Liveship Traders trilogy's separate cast and sentient ships.
Its place in Realm of the Elderlings
Assassin's Quest is book 3 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. It follows Royal Assassin. It is followed by Ship of Magic. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553897470
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593157930
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007552146