Valdemar

Its place in The Founding of Valdemar

Valdemar is book 3 in the The Founding of Valdemar series. It follows Into the West. See the full The Founding of Valdemar reading order.

More than three decades after introducing Valdemar in Arrows of the Queen, Lackey went all the way back to the very beginning: the founding of the kingdom itself, centuries before any Herald, Companion, or Collegium existed. The trilogy follows Kordas Valdemar, a minor duke leading his people in a desperate exodus away from a tyrannical, expansionist empire, in search of a place his community can settle safely and build a fairer, freer society — the founding act that eventually becomes the kingdom every other…