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Co-Morbid Reads
A lifelong "Heralds of Valdemar" superfan (Haze) and a brand-new reader (Daz) dive deep into the captivating world of Mercedes Lackey's "The Heralds of Valdemar" series. Together, they explore each book chapter-by-chapter, offering detailed summaries, thoughtful reviews, insightful analysis, surprising self-discovery, and plenty of fun and ridiculous moments along the way. Whether you're a long-time fan or just starting your journey through Valdemar, read along with us for a unique and engaging…
Episodes
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Magic’s Price 10 - Waiting for the End
Original post date: 10/29/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 12 Brief summary of episode: Oh, dear listener, this is a tragedy…
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Magic’s Price 9 - Villainy Abounds
Original post date: 10/22/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 11 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel suffers. The cohosts suffer with…
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Magic’s Price 8 - Hit A Wall
Original post date: 10/15/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 10 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel discovers the plot. The cohosts…
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Magic’s Price 7 - Never Did Run Smooth
Original post date: 10/08/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 9 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel and Stefen unfortunately don’t have…
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Magic’s Price 6 - The Inevitable
Original post date: 10/02/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 7-8 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel and Stefen go home, in a number…
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Magic’s Price 5 - Romancing the Stone
Original post date: 09/24/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 5 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel decides to go on vacation. Stef…
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Magic’s Price 4 - Love, Actually?
Original post date: 09/17/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 5 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel is desperate to avoid love. Life…
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Magic’s Price 3 - Over the Hill
Original post date: 09/10/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 4 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel’s lack of a love life, lack of real…
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Magic’s Price 2 - Made of Stone
Original post date: 09/03/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 3 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel’s depression reaches new heights of…
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Magic’s Price 1 - Historical Revisionism
Original post date: 08/27/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Price Chapter: 1 Brief summary of episode: As is customary in these books, Mercedes…
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Magic’s Promise 12 - It’s Time To Talk About What We Learned Today
Original post date: 08/20/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 12 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel Lives… and may or may not have…
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Magic’s Promise 11 - The Title of the Theme from MASH
Original post date: 08/13/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 11 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel must make a decision regarding…
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Magic’s Promise 10 - Snake Wizard Apocalypse
Original post date: 08/06/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 10 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Magic’s Promise 9 - Whoops All Problems
Original post date: 07/30/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 9 Brief summary of episode: The world might end just a little bit if…
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Magic’s Promise 8 - At Last the Plot
Original post date: 07/23/2026 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 9 Brief summary of episode: With barely any time left, we arrive…
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Magic’s Promise 7 - Cracks Forming
Original post date: 07/16/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 7 Brief summary of episode: Past the halfway point of the book, the…
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Magic’s Promise 6 - What’s The Plot Again?
Original post date: 07/09/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 6 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel takes another, unsanctioned road…
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Magic’s Promise 5 - On The Road Again
Original post date: 07/02/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 5 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel decides to get involved. The…
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Magic’s Promise 4 - Trouble Finds Me
Original post date: 06/25/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 5 Brief summary of episode: A normal family vacation? In this economy?…
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Magic’s Promise 3 - Vacation Blues
Original post date: 06/18/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 3 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel is home for vacation in a tableau…
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Magic’s Promise 2- The End And The Beginning
Original post date: 06/11/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Promise Chapter: 3
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Magic’s Promise 1 - Everything has Changed
Original post date: 06/04/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: 2 Chapter: 1-2 Brief summary of episode: Our first guest speaker comes to talk Vanyel, queer…
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Magic’s Pawn 10 - Resolutions
Original post date: 05/28/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 12 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel comes to his own conclusions about…
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Magic’s Pawn 9 - Breathe Out
Original post date: 05/21/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 11 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel learns for himself what Tylendel…
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Magic’s Pawn 8 - Finding the Cause
Original post date: 05/14/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 10 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel considers his future as a Herald. The…
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Magic’s Pawn 7 - Sabbatical
Original post date: 05/07/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 9 Brief summary of episode: Vanyel takes a depression vacation. The…
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Magic’s Pawn 6 - Oh No
Original post date: 04/30/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 8 Grief is a tricky, painful, miserable thing, and everyone feels it. The…
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Magic’s Pawn 5 - Falling in Hate with You
Original post date: 04/28/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 7 Trouble in paradise, for the lovebirds and the cohosts as they…
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Magic’s Pawn 4 - Complications
Original post date: 04/07/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 6 Did Mercedes Lackey codify the fake hating trope? Why does this book…
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Magic’s Pawn 3 - Teenage Dream
Original post date: 03/31/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 5 Daz’s crush on Savil and Vanyel’s crush on Tylendel run in tandem…
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Magic’s Pawn 2 - Vanyel Learns a Lesson
Original post date: 03/25/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 4 Daz decides correctly that this book has the best characters in…
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Magic’s Pawn 1 - Meet Vanyel
Original post date: 03/12/26 Series: The Last Herald-Mage Book: Magic’s Pawn Chapter: 1-3 Vanyel Ashkevron is the most dramatic teenager who ever lived. Daz is…
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Arrows’ Fall 11/12 - End of an Era
Original post date: 03/05/26 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 11-12 Talia and Dirk marry, there’s a beautiful wedding, and the cohosts cry about…
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Arrows’ Fall 9/10 - The Dark and the Dawn
Original post date: 03/04/26 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 9-10 The cohosts talk setup, payoff, and writing good action scenes without…
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Arrows’ Fall 8 - The Thick Of It
Original post date: 02/19/26 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 8 Dreams of escape and healing and discussions of grief and desperation, and…
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Arrows’ Fall 7 - It Got Worse Again
Original post date: 2/12/26 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 7 Talia reaches her limit. The cohosts talk torture and suicidality…
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Arrows’ Fall 6 - It Got Worse
Original post date: 02/05/26 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 6 Csptured! The cohosts mourn and talk about violence against women and whump…
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Arrows’ Fall 5 - Brewing Trepidation
Original post date: 01/29/26 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 5 Strsnge totalitarian states make the Heralds and the cohosts deeply…
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Arrows’ Fall 4 - Gathering Storm
Original post date: 01/09/2026 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 5 Talia and Kris set out on their mission, and Daz can tell something awful is…
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Arrows’ Fall 3 - Boy Crazy
Original post date: 01/01/26 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 4 Elspeth almost causes a succession crisis via sex, Talia musf play bad cop, and…
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Arrows’ Fall 2 - Trepidation
Original post date: 12/18/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 3 Talia gets a new assignment, Dirk and Kris are feuding, and Haze sympathizes…
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Arrows’ Fall 1 - Transitions
Original post date: 11/27/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Fall Chapter: 1-2 Trouble in paradise between Talia, Kris, and Dirk, and the cohosts talk…
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Arrows’ Flight 10 - Come to a Close
Original post date: 11/21/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 12
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Arrows’ Flight 9 - Beginning to Move
Original post date: 11/13/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 11 The internship comes to a close, the stormclouds are brewing, and Daz…
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Arrows’ Flight 8: The Edge Of Winter
Original post date: 11/06/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 10 After a miserable siege by snow, spring is springing and the cohosts discuss…
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Arrows’ Flight 7: Cabin Fever, Again
Original post date: 10/30/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 8-9 The snowstorm continues, and Daz is charmed by Kris. haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows’ Flight 6 - Cabin Fever
Original post date: 10/23/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 6 Talia and Kris cope with a snowstorm, and the cohosts discuss burnout…
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Arrows’ Flight 5 - Onwards and Upwards
Original post date: 10/16/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 5 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows’ Flight 4 - Complications Ensue
Original post date: 10/09/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 5 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows’ Flight 3 - Setting Out
Original post date: 10/02 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 3-4 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows’ Flight 2 - (About To Be) On The Road Again
Original post date: 09/25/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 2 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows’ Flight 1: Talia, Intern
Original post date: 09/18/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows’ Flight Chapter: 1-2 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows 12 - The End And The Beginning
Original post date: 09/11/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 12 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows 11 - Toward The End
Original post date: 09/04/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 11 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows 9-10 - The Plot Thickens
Original post date: 08/28/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 9-10 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows 7-8: Gone Too Soon
Original post date: 08/21/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 7-8 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows 6: Friendship is Magic
Original post date: 08/14/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 6 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Arrows 5 - Work Study at the Collegium
Original post date: 08/07/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 5 haze.comorbid@gmail.com
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Queen’s Own 4: Murder Is An Ugly Word
Original post date: 07/31/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 5 Brief summary of episode: Talia has a hell of a time settling in, making…
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Queen’s Own 3: Magic School for the Singlemindedly Heroic
Original post date: 07/24/25 Series: Queen’s Own Book: Arrows of the Queen Chapter: 4 Brief summary of episode: Talia learns the ups and unexpected downs of…