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[ricardienne]

From Tamora Pierce's website:

NUMAIR: THE EARLY YEARS 2, continuing the story of Numair's life as he comes to Tortall and is befriended by Alanna the Lioness and Baron George, and aids King Jonathan in creating a Tortallan university.

So... a YA fantasy novel about trying to get funding? About setting a syllabus? I am trying very hard to see the the place for a plot here, and nothing is coming to mind. (Besides isn't it canon that nothing much happened in Tortall during this period except happy things like public education, new egalitarian military branches, and increased prosperity?)

Comments

[camlina.livejournal.com]

Worry about it when the first one's actually written... IIRC this project has been in the pipeline for at least 3 years now, and it's still not projected for anytime soon.

[existentialgoat.livejournal.com]

...I think I recently read came across a fanfic along those lines. Jonathan recruiting Numair to help set up a university and putting him in charge of ordering books to fill in the gaps in the magic section of the royal library in the meantime.

Maybe the plot is convincing Numair that yes, he really does want to stop being a travelling magician and return to academia?