Realm of the Elderlings · Book 2
Royal Assassin
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 704
- ISBN-13
- 9780553573411
- Type
- novel
About this book
Royal Assassin, from 1996, is the second Farseer novel, continuing Fitz's story at the Farseer court and nearly doubling the opener's length at 704 pages. It's part of the trilogy readers can complete as a self-contained story before deciding whether to continue into the wider Realm of the Elderlings.
Its place in Realm of the Elderlings
Royal Assassin is book 2 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. It follows Assassin's Apprentice. It is followed by Assassin's Quest. 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 9780553573411
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007383443
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593722831