The first Robin Hobb novel, Assassin's Apprentice, was the first volume of what grew to be three trilogies narrated in first person by FitzChivalry Farseer, illegitimate son of a prince, and featuring an enigmatic character called the Fool.
In 2013, Hobb announced that she would resume the story, decades later in life, of her two most popular characters in the Realm of the Elderlings series [REF].