The heroes of the Khaavren Romances roughly correspond with the heroes of the d'Artagnan Romances. The Baron of Magister Valley homages The Count of Monte Cristo, another Dumas novel. The third novel of each trilogy is broken into smaller volumes. The Phoenix Guards names the guard organization to which the main characters belong, as does The Three Musketeers, Five Hundred Years After describes the length of time between it and the previous book, as does Twenty Years After, and The Viscount of Adrilankha is the name of the next generation of hero, as is The Vicomte de Bragelonne. The title of each book roughly corresponds with its equivalent in the d'Artagnan Romances. The Viscount of Adrilankha, published in three volumes:.The first five books in the cycle are inspired by the Musketeers books, while 2020's The Baron of Magister Valley uses The Count of Monte Cristo as a starting point. The Khaavren Romances books have all used Dumas novels as their chief inspiration, recasting the plots of those novels to fit within Brust's established world of Dragaera. The series is written by Brust in the voice and persona of a Dragaeran novelist, Paarfi of Roundwood, whose style is a tongue-in-cheek parody of Dumas, matching both his swashbuckling sense of adventure and his penchant for tangents and longwindedness. They are heavily influenced by and homage The d'Artagnan Romances written by Alexandre Dumas. The novels are swashbuckling adventure stories involving war, intrigue, and romance. The Khaavren Romances are a series of fantasy novels written by Steven Brust and set in the fictional world of Dragaera.

Yendi by Steven Brust