Assassin's Apprentice
The opening of the Realm of the Elderlings, modern fantasy's great life-study: the book that put first-person psychological interiority at the centre of the epic form, with a generation of writers following.
Series Guide
The Farseer Trilogy
by Robin Hobb
FitzChivalry Farseer — royal bastard, assassin's apprentice, Wit-bonded to a wolf — and the first movement of the genre's great single-life epic, the Realm of the Elderlings.