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Flavius let the mailing list know that Return to Krondor is number 10 on the current PC Data game sale's chart! This is no doubt due to recent bargain pricing. More information and the complete list can be found here.

The big RtK site has been missing for some time, so I've removed it from the Link Page. If anyone knows where (if) this site has moved, please let me know. Thanks.

The URL for the Riftwar Geneologies page has changed to - We have no current information 23 February 2009

Karsiss posted this about RiftMUSH:

Due to a lack of players on RiftMUSH, we have stopped Administrating the game but left it on for people to connect and look around or check the place out, while former players can connect to talk to other former players if they wish, or start role-playing with each other.

We are slowly coding up a new RiftMUSH, but it's a long and difficult process that will take quite some time still. The coded systems are going to be quite intense. When we get to the point that the system coding is in the testing/debugging phase, I will start recruiting people to build the city that we make the Mush in. Once the team has started working, and the coded systems are being tested and debugged, I will start posting information about the new Mush including Theme, Systems, and Character information so that anybody who's interested will gain the knowledge of the Mush and what it's all about.

I don't expect the Mush to be at this point until sometime in 2001, so it will be quite some time until I start sending out the Emails.

There is some code on the Mush that allows me to see how many people have connected during the month and how long they are online for. If ever the existing RiftMUSH produces enough players to start having an Admin presence, I will rebuild the Admin team and help get things going again.

Also: Due to a server move (after a hard drive crash), RiftMUSH's new IP address is: 63.238.226.186 port 4202

All you Nakor fans out there will be a bit upset by this post by Ray:

You'll probably get more hints from Nakor about his life if he shows up again, but I have no plans for him to play a significant part in the next series. Maybe later.

Conclave will not be the final Midkemia series, according to what Ray has said in the past, so hopefully that 'maybe later' will come true.

Ray posted this about the timeline for Tear:

That's the target, but it's going to be late. Figure in November. I haven't finished it yet, and it probably won't be finished for another month.

On a related note, Ray said that Krondor: The Assassins should be out in paperback by Christmas.

Canaan Machida let me know that the URL of his Midkemia Age Timeline is http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kageyama/feist.

Morten Hansen posted this note:

Ray's Norwegian publishers, Tiden norsk forlag www.tiden.no , have just revamped the fantasy section of their website and given it a separate domain: www.fantasy.no There's a section on Ray there. It's all in Norwegian, though, except for a few quotes here and there.

Somehow hearing and responding to a silent prayer I made (there is no map in Rage, remember), Ralph 'I Live to Map, I Map to Live' Askren has released a version of his great map for the Palm!

For any other list members that are Palm Handheld enthusiasts, I have posted the first of several Midkemia maps for the Palm Pilot on the Unofficial Atlas. When I first showed the map to REF, he said he was really starting to worry about me. My wife has already written me off as a an obsessed fan. As I have shared with them, I am really not nuts...this is just recreation for me: an opportunity to not worry about medical stuff or the business. Enjoy! The address is http://www.elvandar.com

Ralph also posted this about an update to his core map:

I have tried to use only published maps for the Unofficial Atlas and did not have a copy of the edition you mention. Of course, one can make an easy stab at the location based on the text in Silverthorn (p.275, 1st American Ed) 'Now they were properly in the Great Northern Mountains, in that area between the elven forests and the Northlands. Moraelin lay higher in the mountains, in a rocky, baren plain, just below the crest.'However, I checked with the 'Great REF Publishing Guru' across the sea and Mr. Bunting quickly provided me with a copy of the map with Moraelin. Actually, it appears three additions were made to the original 1st edition map when Magician went into mass market format: Moraelin was identified, the Thunderhell Steppes were also labeled, and Elvenhome was changed to Elvandar. I have now added Moraelin to the map at the Unofficial Atlas.

June 19, 2000

The absence of any really important news is my excuse for not updating in a while, but i'm posting several things today. Also, I will be on vacation in San Francisco from June 22-July 2, so don't expect any updates then. And I just bought a Palm IIIe today, and I like it. :)

Another note from Ray, this time on the population of the Kingdom of Isles:

Depends on which eara you're talking about. At the time of the books, the Kingdom is about 2-3 million. No exact figures are available.

The Atlas will be done, says Ray:

Seriously, Steve and I will be working on the Atlas in the 2nd half of this year, but we have some other business to finish, first, and when we do, we'll announce it and everything will make sense.

Ray posted this tidbit recently:P. S. Hey, John, heads up: we just signed a deal to do a Hebrew editions of Magician in Israel!

No details. Can't even tell you who the publisher is yet. I'll post that info when I get it.

...doesn't exist yet. But on is in the works:

No, I don't have a web site yet. The Bitter Sea Company will have a web site, probably before the end of this year, once a few things that are in negotiations get finalized.

Arrian Rutten posted this news item today:

The Dutch translation of SoaBC ('Scherven van een verbrijzelde kroon') has been released.

The next one (KtB, 'Krondor: Het verraad') is scheduled for release in August.

And John Bunting had this to say:

Here is the News from the publisher

This fall we will publish Zilverdoorn, Duisternis over Sethanon, Prins van den bloede and Boekanier des konings in hardback.

This fall we will present a Feist-compendium De wereld van de magiër.