The Kedrigern Chronicles
The Kedrigern Chronicles — (1986-1990) Publisher: A wizard’s life is not an easy life. One never knows who, or what, one’s next client will be, or what kind of unpleasantness he, or she, or it, is bringing. And there’s always the certainty of travel to far places over bad roads in nasty weather. It’s no wonder wizards prefer to live solitary lives in isolated towers or ruins or caves. They’re looking for some peace and quiet. But it makes for a lonely life. So when a young man of 160 or so-no age at all for a wizard-meets a beautiful enchanted princess and releases her from a cruel spell, it seems the perfect chance to settle down to a life of cozy domesticity. With a bit of magic here and there to take care of the housework and a loyal house-troll to do the heavy lifting, things ought to be idyllic. And they would be, if it weren’t for the unreasonable clients, the barbarian swordsmen, the home furnishings with minds of their own, the otherworldly intruders, and the rest of those annoying day-to-day problems of the profession.
Two omnibus editons have been released. Each has two Kedrigern novels and several Kedrigern short stories:
Omnibus #1 (The Domesticated Wizard): A Voice for Princess, The Questing of Kedrigern, several short stories
Omnibus #2 (Dudgeon and Dragons): Kedrigern in Wanderland, Kedrigern and the Dragon Comme Il Faut, several short stories
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A Voice for Princess by John Morressy
A Voice for Princess is the first volume of John Morressy’s Kedrigern Chronicles, a series of novels and short stories about the reclusive wizard Kedrigern. In this first novel, Kedrigern retires from the wizard guild because he’s mad at his colleagues for schmoozing with alchemists (whom Kedrigern considers beneath barbarians on the human worth scale). Accompanied by his ugly but loyal house troll, Spot (whose vocabulary consists entirely of the word “Yah!”), off Kedrigern goes to build himself a solitary home on Silent Thunder Mountain.
Eventually Kedrigern becomes lonely and decides he’d like a wife. After a couple of unsuccessful courting efforts, he stumbles upon a beautiful and intelligent princess who has been turned into a fro... Read More
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