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That wisdom has aged nicely into something timeless. These two have always wielded outsider’s wisdom without sounding preachy or condescending, something rare in the fantasy genre of late. It was wonderful to reexperience the marshy constructed language of Tiamak and the yoda-like Binabik again, even as old men. Being reintroduced to these characters felt like a homecoming that highlighted my own grey hairs and creaky knees. A lot of the old cast of characters is back, aged and greyed with experience and heartbreak. He’s still the High King of the land but he’s a grandfather struck by the tragedy of the loss of a son and the raising of an errant grandson, Morgan. In this first installment, Simon has become an old man. This is the follow up series, some forty years later, The Last King of Osten Ard, which begins with the Witchwood Crown. It hit me at an impressionable age and I still remember the feelings it invoked as it sucked me into the world. I feel like the grandfather in The Princess Bride when talking about it, there were princesses, sword fights, battles and Norns.

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It captured the mooncalf Simon, a scullery boy who became high king through a riveting series of adventures.

Tad Williams wrote one of the best fantasy series ever written with his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn books. The Witchwood Crown: The Last King of Osten Ard Book 1