Set two decades after the events from the Riftwar, Prince of the Bloodstream follows the travels of Prince Arutha’s sons in the dangerously unpredictable Great Empire of Kesh.

Two decades have passed because the end of the Riftwar.

Prince Borric conDoin and his twin brother Erland have been summoned back to their father’s courtroom in Krondor. Prince Arutha offers decided he must tame his spirited progeny and instruct them statecraft and responsibility. Shortly after they arrive home, about Prince from the Bloodstream therefore, he purchases these to Kesh, to represent the Isles in the Empress’ seventy-fifth jubilee. But before the brand-new ambassadors depart, these are attacked.

The foiled assassin’s suicide reawakens fears that this Nighthawks – a brotherhood of killers for hire – are active once more. Nevertheless, you far more disturbing: the assassin was a member of the Royal House of Kesh…

Regardless of the dangers, Borric and Erland’s mission continues, it being crucial to sustaining the fragile peace between the two nations. But the brothers have little notion of the spectacular world of Kesh, the strange players at this alien courtroom, nor the hidden forces objective upon tearing the empire aside.