Series
The Collegium Chronicles
Mercedes Lackey · 5 novels · 2008–2013
The Collegium Chronicles follows the early history of Valdemar's Herald training school, well before the events of Mercedes Lackey's original trilogies, as a new generation of trainees navigates politics, sabotage, and their own pasts. It's told across Foundation, Intrigues, Changes, Redoubt, and Bastion, one of several Valdemar sub-series Lackey has set at different points in the kingdom's timeline.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Collegium Chronicles at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s1
- 2010s4
Shape
5 novels
1 author
reads like:fantasymagic schoolssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedhopefulyoung adult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Foundationdarkest · calmest
- Intriguesbrightest · most intense