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Foundation
Foundation is a Fantasy novel written in 2008 by Mercedes Lackey. It is the first book in the The Collegium Chronicles (followed by Intrigues(2010) and Changes(forthcoming) . It is a depiction of the early history of Valdemar its timeline is between The Last Herald Mage and Brightly Burning. The book details a change in the training of Heralds from essentially an apprenticeship like Tylendel and Vanyel were trained to a school based system like the one in Arrows of The Queen and Brightly Burning . Not all Heralds are in favor of this mainly citing lack of supervision as an objection.

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This novel tells the story of Mags an orphan who was enslaved in the gem mines of Cole Peters along with other orphans. His choosing leads directly to the arrest of of Cole Peters. Also in this book the Collegium as we know it in the Arrows Trilogy is being built along with the Bardic and Healers Collegium because of this and the new system the old Collegium is seriously overcrowded causing Mags to have to sleep in a stable room in the Companion stables Mags, who used to sleep in worse conditions, does not mind however one Herald accuses him of bringing all manner of illicit goods into the room because of his lodging and nearly attacks him before the Compainions intervene. Because of Mags's upbringing he has few friends as he literally does not understand many things most people in the Collegium find to be the utmost of important however with Dallen's help he finds a two friend in a bardic and healer trainee(Bear and Lena). while this is happening Mags is trained by the Kings Own in the art of spying and its assigned to keep an eye on two 'dignitaries' who are visit and causing trouble. One is reviled to be a mage as the Vrondi are driving him mad. the dignitaries digging through the guard archives they attack Bear who was doing the same thing for personal reason Mags ends up rescuing Bear and dispatching the guards