![]() If you dig more into the DEEP LORE, the Tsurani are humans, just like the humans of Midkemia are(aside from whatever genetic drift happens over thousands of years of interstellar separation), due to an ancient disaster that destroyed whatever was humanity's ancestral home. Eventually, during A Darkness At Sethanon, the Rift is re-established, and from then on, Kelewan and Midkemia enjoy largely peaceful trade relations as the Tsurani Emperor, Ichindar, has no desire for war. A lot of magical bullshit later, the rift between Kelewan and Midkemia is collapsed, and the surviving Tsurani on the Midkemia side are made freemen of the Kingdom. Most information about Tsurani history and culture are related when Pug, the main protagonist of the Magician novels, is captured at the end of Apprentice and spends several years as a Tsurani slave in Master until the Tsurani discover he has magical talent and elevate him to the role of one of their Great Ones(unlike in the Kingdom, there's no such thing as a wizard of low station among the Tsurani). The invasion of Midkemia is pushed by two things: the hunger for Midkemia's metals(which are insanely valuable on Kelewan) and political pressures(the Tsurani warlord has been backed into a corner by being unable to find anyone to persecute a war against for a while), and to maintain his political power he latches on to the idea of invading the Kingdom of the Isles. The protagonists later realize that the Tsurani are being teleported in from their own world, Kelewan, which mainly differs from Midkemia in being much hotter and being much more poor in metals. They appear out of nowhere and lay siege to the Kingdom from within its borders, displacing Moredhel, threatening Elvandar and having no apparent end to their troops. The Tsurani are the Aztec/Japanese melange culture which are the apparent antagonists of the first two Midkemia books(Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master). This time he succeeds, however, and most of his reputation as a ladies' man is from when the partially collapsed basement is excavated by the relief troops. He ends up surviving the siege along with the other main characters, joining them in their rush to Sethanon where he ends up protecting more women in a besieged city when the walls come down. When the city is overrun, a girl that Locklear struck up a relationship with is killed by the invaders and he turns out to be a pretty dangerous fighter when he's sufficiently pissed off by an event like that. Once again, Locklear and Jimmy end up accompanying Prince Arutha on a dangerous expedition, this time into the Northlands, the heart of Moredhel power, where they end up in the besieged, militaristic city of Armengar. When Prince Arutha and his friends end up setting off on a top secret mission to save Prince Arutha's wife(who got hit in the back by a poisoned crossbow bolt during the wedding), Jimmy and Locklear figure out something's up and invite themselves along, almost getting killed along the way several times.Īfter Princess Anita's life is saved, life goes back to normal until the fourth book, A Darkness At Sethanon. They end up fast friends as Locklear is, himself, not the son of anyone important enough to put him high on the pecking order and he's impressed with Jimmy's street wits and the fact that he doesn't take shit from any bullies among the other squires. Locklear first appears in the third book, Silverthorn, where he and a young Jimmy the Hand have ended up as squires at Prince Arutha's court. Let me know if you want me to ramble more about a particular subject, because Christ will I not run out of material any time soon. ![]() Thanks to time travel there's rarely ever just "a beginning" and the chronological start of things is often explained midway through the second book in a two-book sub-series. goddamn, nothing in the Midkemia books is ever simple and concise. I'm trying to keep each of the lore dump subheadings somewhat concise because. ![]() ![]() Part 2: Lore Dump 1 Update 02: Lore Dump 1
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