My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

Feist acknowledges that the Tekumel setting from M. Margaret Weis)
The Wood Boy (1998) in Legends (ed. Barker's Empire of the Petal Throne was the source for much of Kelewan.

Raymond Elias Feist (born Raymond E. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories.