Now his oldest son, Charyn, is Rex, trying to stay alive in the midst of the continuing chaos. There was an assassin in that book, and the person who was assassinated was the Rex. The events in Endgames directly follow the events in the previous book, Assassin’s Price. And they would generally rather that the cup had passed to someone else – at least until they decide that whoever might have been stuck into their position instead would have done even worse. The person who finds themselves the linchpin of epic events they did not plan on.

Instead, the protagonists of this series often feel, particularly from their own perspectives, more like the “stuck one”. However, unlike the traditional epic fantasy, neither this book nor this series focuses on the adventures of a “chosened one”. Because most of the Imager Portfolio in general, and this book in particular, is certainly all about the politics. Alternatively, one could extend the metaphor that Lois McMaster Bujold proposed of SF as fantasy of political agency and expand that to speculative fiction, which includes fantasy, as, well, fantasy of political agency. Endgames feels like a story about politics being civil war by other means. There’s a saying about war being diplomacy by other means. Modesitt, Jr.The Saga of RecluceThe Corean ChroniclesThe Spellsong CycleThe Ghost BooksThe Ecolitan Matter

The Imager Portfolio#1 Imager / #2 Imager's Challenge / #3 Imager's Intrigue / #4 Scholar / #5 Princeps / #6 Imager's Battalion / #7 Antiagon Fire / #8 Rex Regis / #9 Madness in Solidar / #10 Treachery's Tools / #11 Assassin's Price / #12 Endgames

Solidar cannot be allowed to slide into social and political turmoil that will leave the High Holders with their ancient power and privilege, and the common people with nothing.īut the stakes are even higher than he realizes. Modesitt, Jr's, New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio, and the third book in the story arc that began with Treachery's Tools and Assassin's Price.Ĭharyn, the young and untested ruler of Solidar, has survived assassination, and he struggles to gain control of a realm in the grip of social upheaval, war, and rioting. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Įndgames is the twelfth novel in L. Published by Tor Books on February 5, 2019 Source: supplied by publisher via Edelweissįormats available: hardcover, ebook, audiobook

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