Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy 1)

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody | one young boy will become a walking enigma. Born on the wrong side of the sheets | Fitz | son of ChivalryFarseer | is a royal bastard cast out into the world | friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals the old art known as the Wit gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit | if used too often | is a perilous magic and one abhorred by the nobility. So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household | he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry | scribing | courtly manners and how to kill a man secretly | as he trains to become a royal assassin.