The Magician King
Time has passed since the adventures recounted in The Magicians. Quentin, Julia, Eliot, and Janet are now the rulers of Fillory, the magical kingdom of their childhood reading. But the wondrous sometimes turns dark. And serious incidents disturb the peace of the royal castle. An oracle of death and destruction falls upon the enchanted land. Riddles and threats lead Quentin and Julia on a new journey. The quest that awaits them takes them back to America, their country of origin, through Brakebills School, to Venice to encounter a dragon, and plunges between worlds and even into the afterlife. Will the seven golden keys save Fillory? And might the greatest mystery not lie with Julia herself, whose discovery of magic followed a dark path?
One of Fillory's four rulers, who gives up a comfortable throne to chase a quest for seven golden keys into the underworld itself.
Co-ruler of Fillory whose parallel storyline traces how she taught herself magic outside Brakebills, and what that path cost her.
A trickster god summoned by accident during Julia's underground magic circle, whose violence against her both devastates and transforms her.
King of Fillory alongside Quentin, settling into a bored, ceremonial reign after the adventures of the first book.
Queen of Fillory who chafes against the monotony of ceremonial rule behind her usual bravado.
Yes. The Magician King is the second novel in Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy, following The Magicians and continuing before The Magician's Land.
The story moves between Fillory, the magical kingdom the characters now rule as monarchs; real-world locations including Brooklyn and Venice; and the otherworldly Neitherlands, as a quest for seven golden keys pulls the characters between worlds.