

It follows Mags and his children as they learn the family business. This series is a continuation of the story of Mags after The Herald Spy trilogy. It covers Mags' journey as a full herald and a spy. This series is a continuation of the story of Mags from the Collegium Chronicles. The series takes place about a half a century after Magic's Price and about 500 years before the Heralds of Valdemar books and tells about the time of the founding of the Heralds' Collegium. This series marked Lackey's novel-length return to Valdemar after a five-year hiatus. This will be the first live action adaptation of Lackey's work.

As of 2021, the novels in the Last Herald-Mage trilogy are in development as the first season of a television show based on the Valdemar universe adapted by Kit Williamson and Brittany Cavallaro with Ted Field, Anthony Tringali, Michael Napoliello, and Maria Frisk at Radar Pictures executive-producing. This series was also consistently nominated for the Lambda Literary Prize, with Magic's Price winning in 1990. These occur some centuries before the Heralds of Valdemar books, telling the life story of Vanyel Ashkevron by the time of the "later" books he has become legend, thus explaining some of the small inconsistencies. 1000 years after The Mage Wars and some 1400 years before the original Arrows trilogy. The story of the Baron Kordas Valdemar fleeing with his people the oppressive Eastern Empire and founding the kingdom of Valdemar in the western wilds. The co-protagonists are Skandranon Rashkae, a princely but proud ebony gryphon, and Amberdrake, a Healer of spirit and mind called a kestra'chern. It involves gryphons, creatures created by the mage Urtho (Mage of Silence). They describe the events which set off the Mage Storms. These are set in pre-history, some 2500 years before the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy. Some of the trilogies follow on chronologically from each other, while others are set a considerable number of years apart from the others - overall the books span some 2500 years.Ĭo-written with Larry Dixon. This is a list of books by Mercedes Lackey, arranged by collection.
