num_pages: 400
description: In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.
language: English
title: Assassin's Apprentice
titlecomplete: Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
characters: Shrewd Farseer, Chade Fallstar, Burrich, Serene (Farseer), Hod (Farseer), Sara the cook, Regal Farseer, Molly Chandler, Galen (Farseer), Lady Patience, Lacey (Elderling Saga), Queen Desire, Fedwren, FitzChivalry Farseer, August Farseer, Verity Farseer, Shemshy of Shoaks, Will (Galen's coterie), Kevlar of Rippon, Hands (Elderling), Kettricken (Farseer), The Fool (Elderling Saga)
genres: Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 308662
places: Forge, Neatbay, Moonseye, Buckkeep, Jhaampe (Mountain Kingdom)
series: Vatídico, L'Assassin royal, The Realm of the Elderlings, The Farseer Trilogy, A Saga do Assassino
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Locus Award
category: Fantasy, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Compton Crook Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers