Arutha ConDoin, the straight and narrow prince of Crydee smuggling into and out of Krondor, the second capital of the Kingdom of Isles.
In all the characters that I’ve mentioned above, the novel also has some really awesome characters, each of whom is strong and badass in hir own way and that’s pretty damn awesome. From the kitchens of a frontier Duke’s castle, we go to an alien world populated by a martial nation and along the way we visit a sorcerer’s island, we visit the Elven homeland, the halls of magical power on an alien world, several different fields of battle and much more. It has a really great and epic plot that starts off humbly enough but which gets ever-more complex as the story goes on and we meet new characters and visit new locales. Like I said above, everything about this novel is fantastic and great. I’ve thought often about just why I love this novel so much, and I have never received a satisfactory answer that pinpoints the exact reasons, and that is the real charm of this novel. He gives each character his or her due, and he never ignores one at the expense of the other. There are so many characters here that it would be really easy to get lost in their individual stories and how they relate to the larger story, but with Feist at the helm, there is never any moment of confusion.
But, the way that Feist writes the novel, there are many heroes in this setting, heroes like Tomas himself, Arutha ConDoin, Jimmy the Hand, Princess Carline, Princess Anita, Katala, Kasumi Shinzawai, Macros the Black, King Dolgan, Prince Calin and many, many more. When I first read Magician, I read it in the consolidated version that combined Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master and the way I see it, Pug is the true hero and the absolute main character of the novel, since the subtitles reflect his journey from being an orphan in a frontier town to becoming a magician’s apprentice to being a slave on an alien world and then eventually rising to mastery of his magics on that self-same alien world, when he eventually becomes the saviour of his world along with his many friends and adopted relatives.
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Full of exciting action, interesting characters, a really epic plot and a truly wonderful setting, Magician is a must-read massive novel as far as I’m concerned. Tomas and Pug experience some really extraordinary adventures in their rise to power and together they become embroiled in some really amazing and epic events that date back to thousands of years in their world’s past. Magician is primarily the tale of two boyhood friends’ rise to power from extremely humble beginnings, one the son of kitchen servants to a frontier (but politically powerful) Duke, and the other an orphan with none to claim him.
That was a really great time for me, because I was discovering so many great books one after the other, and there was something about the adventures of Pug and Tomas and their friends that really drew me in to this world that Feist had created. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and soon after Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Chronicles. When I started out reading epic fantasy/space opera back in freshman year of high school, it was one of the very first books I read, soon after J. Feist’s Magician remains, to this day, one of the finest examples of traditional epic fantasy that I’ve read.
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