In What FROSTBORN Book Does Third First Get Mentioned?
Third is a popular character, because my website keeps getting searches for “which book does Third first appear” and related queries. So let’s answer that question here!
Third first appears in FROSTBORN: THE FALSE KING (the tenth book in the series) and is a recurring character in the rest of FROSTBORN. Later, she returns in SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD and is a point-of-view character for the first time in SEVENFOLD SWORD: SHADOW.
The SHIELD KNIGHT novellas SHIELD KNIGHT: THIRD’S TALE and SHIELD KNIGHT: RIDMARK’S TALE contain accounts of her origin story from differing perspectives.
-JM
Actually, Third appears as early as The Gorgon Spirit, in Chapter 9: Lord of the Dark Elves:
“Then my servants will kill you,” said the Traveler. “You cannot overcome them, especially if my daughters take the field against you.” He gestured at the seven urdhracosi. “Do you find them fair, Swordbearer? Do they please your eye? They are mine to do with as I please, fathered upon the women of your kindred. They are useful slaves, but they are not worthy of names. No. I simply call them by the order they were born…First, Second, Third, and the others. And if you do not do as I command you, Sir Arandar of Tarlion, they will…”