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Here's all the information I was able to dig up on Lawrence's upcoming Annals of the Chosen series; if you find anything more, please add it to the thread.
It'll be a trilogy (Lawrence wanted it to be 5 books, but Tor wanted only 3). The first book is The Wizard Lord, the second is The Summer Palace, and the third is Untrue Names.
The Wizards Lord's release date is sometime in Spring 2006.
Lawrence, on this first book, says:
| QUOTE (Lawrence Watt-Evans) | The story begins when a young man nicknamed ''Breaker'' is asked whether he wants to become the Chosen Swordsman. There hasn't been a Dark Lord in over a century, so he thinks of it as a ceremonial position.
He gradually learns that it's a bit more complicated than that. |
The third book's title, "Untrue Names," may change before it is published.
The heros are the Chosen (as in the series' title), and the main foe is the Wizard Lord (as in the first book's title).
Lawrence, on the background:
| QUOTE (Lawrence Watt-Evans) | Long ago the land of Barokan (as it's called in the Vales and the Midlands) had a serious problem with rogue wizards robbing, raping, and murdering innocent villagers, and even other wizards, not to mention spreading plagues, raising crop-damaging storms, and generally making life difficult. The solution developed by a bunch of not-so-rogue wizards (who gradiosely named themselves the Council of Immortals) was to deliberately give one carefully-chosen wizard enough magical power and political authority to hunt down and kill every rogue wizard out there.
Thus was created the first Wizard Lord.
Catch is, what's to stop the Wizard Lord himself from robbing, raping, and murdering innocents?
The answer the wizards came up with is the Chosen, the heroes whose job it is to kill any Wizard Lord who goes bad. These are not wizards themselves, but have very limited and specialized magic specifically designed for taking down Dark Lords.
The Dark Lords, however, don't make it easy. |
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Annals of the Chosen, Info Thread
