"Vanyel in 'The Last Herald Mage' series was one of the first gay characters I encountered, and as a recently out 16-year-old I can't stress enough the impact that these books had on me," said the TV series' writer, Kit Williamson, in a press release from Radar (via Deadline). The third book in the trilogy, "Magic's Price," won a 1990 Lambda Award for Gay Science Fiction/Fantasy (via Lambda Literary) and the series still regularly makes lists of the best LGBTQ+ speculative fiction around. The trilogy follows Vanyel Ashkevron, one of the first openly gay protagonists in the fantasy genre, a magic user in a world that's prejudiced against him.
The new TV project is based on Mercedes Lackey's "The Last Herald Mage" trilogy, three novels set within her fictional universe of Valdemar.
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