The younger man turned as Thrass walked in through the archway. The one common attribute of Ascendancy military types was their outward confidence.

Hopefully, he wouldnвЂ™t look as intimidated in the heat of battle as he did in a grand Ruling Family reception room. ApВparently, someone in the family had wanted him signed into the Expansionary Defense Fleet as quickly as possiВble, before even his formal welcoming. For new warriors it usually went the other way around, first to Avidich and then to Naporor.

Thrawn was wearing the uniform of a Taharim Academy cadet, which meant heвЂ™d been taken from his home directly to Naporar and then been brought here to Avidich for his welcome and orientation. To ThrassвЂ™s eye he looked just a bit lost, a fairly common reaction from someВone whoвЂ™d been rematched from a nondescript family on a minor world into one of the greatest of the AscendancyвЂ™s Nine Ruling Families. The young man freshly renamed MitthвЂ™rawвЂ™nuru was standing inside the reception room, looking around the walls at the Avidich landscape paintВings and the corner statuettes representing or created by some of the ancient Mitth Patriarchs. Every one of these people had been approved by the PatriarchвЂ™s Office, a fair percentage of them by the Patriarch himself, and Thrass liked to see if he could figure out what made each of them special in the familyвЂ™s eyes. Maybe after a couple more years the exciteВment of meeting and evaluating new people would fade and he would become as cynical and world-weary as evВeryone else.Д«ut he doubted it. Of course, heвЂ™d only been doing it for the past three years, and in that time heвЂ™d only welcomed eleven merit adoptives. because unВlike practically everyone else in his circle of friends, he genuinely enjoyed the service. Nearly all of the blood, cousins, and ranking distants opted out of reception duty, leaving most of the burden to fall on Trial-borns and other merit adoptives, none of whom had enough pull to avoid it. The newcomers were either highly skilled additions to the Mitth, in which case they tended to have an overblown opinion of themselves and their value or they were freshly initiated into the AscenВdancy military, in which case they were self-conscious and, well, extremely military. Of all the duties foisted on low-ranking family members, Aristocra MitthвЂ™rasвЂ™safis had often heard, the task of welВcoming new merit adoptives to their formal rematching dinner was one of the worst. Check out the preview below in print and audio form, and get a first look at artist Jeremy WilsonвЂ™s stunning poster included with the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition of the book, featuring Thrawn and Thrass. Here, we see the fateful meeting between Thrass and Thrawn, at a party welcoming new members to the Mitth family.

A legendary character referenced in the previous two Ascendancy novels, but who, in the finale, takes center stage: Thrass. In Lesser Evil, the memories once again delve into ThrawnвЂ™s past, going back to his earliest days as a member of the Mitth family, this time through the memories of a character whose relationship with Thrawn may be the most important that the future-grand admiral ever had. The вЂњmemoriesвЂќ chapters have served an important role in expanding the story explored in the Ascendancy trilogy. And has an exclusive excerpt, revealing a key moment in ThrawnвЂ™s life. The tale finds the Chiss Ascendancy slipping into war, with Thrawn forced to uncover dark secrets in order to save his new home. Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil arrives November 16, the final installment in Timothy ZahnвЂ™s Thrawn prequel trilogy, chronicling the rise of the legendary military strategist.

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