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1) Valdemar
Author
Series
The Founding of Valdemar volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"The refugees from the Empire have established a thriving city called Haven with the help of the Tayledras and their allies. But the Tayledras have begun a slow withdrawal to the dangerous lands known as the Pelagirs, leaving the humans of Haven to find their own way. But even with Haven settled, the lands around Haven are not without danger. Most of the danger comes in the form of magicians: magicians taking advantage of the abundant magical energy...
Author
Series
Collegium chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
In this chronicle of the early history of Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world, a thirteen-year-old orphan named Magpie escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald. Thrust into the center of a legend in the making, Magpie discovers talents he never knew he had--and witnesses the founding of the great Heralds' Collegium.
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1716
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Collects three novels about Vanyel and his magical horse Yfandes.
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Heralds Mags and Amily must continue to protect the realm of Valdemar while raising their children and preparing them to follow in their footsteps...The oldest, Justyn, has the Gift of animal Mindspeech--he can talk to animals and persuade them to act as he wishes. Justyn's dream is to follow in his father's footsteps as a Herald Spy, but has yet to be Chosen by his horse companion...Mags proposes that Justyn join a group of traveling players and...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Arrows of the queen: Talia, a runaway Holdgirl, is chosen to become a trainee herald in the queen's elite guard and to care for young Princess Elspeth, heir to the throne.
Arrow's flight: Talia, having mastered her psychic and empathic powers, is chosen to be a Herald by the Companions, but must face a testing period before she becomes the Queen's protector.
Arrow's fall: Talia, Herald to the Queen of Valdemar, travels to a neighboring realm to...
8) Owlflight
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin USA
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
It has been ten years since the magical Cataclysm, which destroyed the twin strongholds of the two world's most powerful Mages, killing Urtho, creator of the gryphons, and sending his forces into exile. Now Urthro's peoples-human and non-human alike live in a terraced city carved into the face of a gleaming white cliff on the edge of the Western Ocean. Secure at least . . . until the fleet of the mysterious Black Kings appears in their harbor, bringing...
10) Redoubt
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A young Herald trainee in Haven, Mags, is trained as a spy to uncover secrets held by a mysterious new enemy of the kingdom of Valdemar.
11) Into the west
Author
Series
Founding of Valdemar volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as empty...
12) Eye spy
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Mags, Herald Spy of Valdemar, and his wife, Amily, the King's Own Herald, are happily married with three kids. Their daughter, Abidela, dreams of building on her parents' legacy by joining her father's network of spies, hoping to offset her seeming lack of a Gift. But when Abi senses the imminent collapse of a bridge only moments before it happens, she saves countless lives, including that of her best friend, Princess Katiana. The experience, though...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar's Herald Spy, has been developing a network of young informants who operate on the streets and also in the halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. His wife Amily is King's Own Herald and finds it useful to be underestimated for there are dark things stirring in the shadows of Haven. Someone has discovered many secrets of the women of the Court and the Collegia and is using those secrets to terrorize and bully...
14) Winds of fate
Author
Series
Mage winds volume 1
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[1992], ©1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 26
Description
High Magic had been lost to Valdemar centuries ago when the last Herald-Mage gave his life to save the kingdom from destruction by dark sorceries. Yet now the realm is at risk again. And Elsperth, Herald and heir to the throne, must take up the challenge, abandoning her home to find a mentor who can awaken her untrained mage ablities.
15) Changes
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Magpie, Lena, and Bear continue on their individual quests as they work to attain the status of full Heralds, Bards, and Healers of Valdemar.
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1529
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
A collection of fifteen original stories set in the magical realm of Valdemar, a place where individuals who have been gifted with special abilities gather, includes a new novella by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon.
17) Owlknight
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Darian, now a powerful Healing Adept, searches the unknown north to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance.
18) Beyond
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The long-awaited founding of Valdemar comes to life. Within the Eastern Empire, Duke Kordas Valdemar rules a tiny, bucolic Duchy that focuses mostly on horse breeding. Anticipating the day when the Empire's exploitative and militant leaders would not be content to leave them alone, Kordas' father set out to gather magicians in the hopes of one day finding a way to escape and protect the people of the Duchy from tyranny. Kordas has lived his life...
19) Spy, spy again
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Thirteen year old Prince Kyril and Mags and Amily's fourteen-year-old son Tory 'share' the Gift of Farsight--although neither of them are Chosen. They are self-trained, though currently, their shared Gift only allows them to see what is happening with their immediate family members. After much debate, the Herald's Collegium has decided to test and train them anyway. That's when the surprises start. They do not share a single Gift; they have two complementary...
20) Bastion
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Mags travels to the Bastion in search of who his parents were and a possible explanation about why he is being pursued by Valdemar's enemies in the fifth and final volume of the series following Redoubt.
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