

Mara quickly learns how to play the Game of the Council with skill and challenges the binding traditions of her world.


Mara struggles to rule her family after her father and brother are killed in a trap set by the Minwanabi, one of the most powerful families in the Empire and longtime enemies of the Acoma. These three books are contemporary to Feist's original Riftwar Saga and feature some crossover characters, mainly from Magician (1982) (Pug, the protagonist of Magician, appears twice in Servant of the Empire (1990) and once in Mistress of the Empire (1992)). The trilogy traces the story of Mara of the Acoma's rise to power from a convent novitiate to the most powerful woman in Kelewan. Feist and Janny Wurts, set in the fictional world of Kelewan. The Empire Trilogy is a collaborative trilogy of political fantasy novels by American writers Raymond E.
