Riftwar Legacy

About the Riftwar Legacy series

Set between the Riftwar Saga and the events of Krondor's Sons, the Riftwar Legacy follows Squire James -- better known as Jimmy the Hand, the former street thief introduced in the original trilogy -- as he's drawn into palace intrigue, a citywide conspiracy, and a hunt for a lost artifact. The trilogy began life as a direct novelization of the bestselling Krondor video games (Betrayal at Krondor and Return to Krondor), giving it a more plot-driven, puzzle-adventure feel than Feist's other Riftwar books, before Feist later closed out unresolved plot threads from that video-game connection with the standalone novella Jimmy and the Crawler.

Published across two distinct bursts -- the trilogy in 1998-2000, then the closing novella more than a decade later in 2013 -- the Riftwar Legacy sits slightly outside the Cycle's main line, functioning more as a Jimmy the Hand spotlight than a chapter in the war between worlds. It rewards readers who already enjoyed Jimmy as a supporting character in the Riftwar Saga and want to follow him into his own adventures, and the closing novella specifically resolves a plot hole that had been left dangling since two further planned Krondor novels were quietly shelved.