Twenty Years After his own service to Mazarin, he refuses to watch over the Duc de Beaufort, who is imprisoned at the time, and soon learns that, in consequence, he is to be returned to the Bastille, though this does not deter him from speaking highly of the achievements of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. Having determined that d'Artagnan is the man he seeks, Mazarin enters the chambers of the Queen to let her know that he has enlisted the man who had served her so well twenty years earlier. The Queen, feeling guilty for having forgotten d'Artagnan's service, gives Mazarin a diamond
Five Hundred Years After chaos that destroys Dragaera City and the area around the city, a cataclysm later called Adron's Disaster. Khaavren, Pel, Tazendra, and Aerich, arrived safely at Aerich's home in the duchy of Arylle. Without the Orb, there is no Empire. A lawless time of plague and strife called the Interregnum has begun. Terri Windling characterized the novel as "a splendid magical swashbuckler in the rousing tradition of Dumas and Sabatini". Five Hundred Years After Five Hundred Years After is the second novel in the Khaavren Romances fantasy series by Steven Brust. It is set in the fantasy world of Dragaera. The