Set in the Bingtown Trader city and the Rain Wilds to the south, the Liveship Traders follows the Vestrit family and their living ship Vivacia across a story of pirates, slavery, sea serpents, and the awakening of something ancient in the Rain Wild River. Structurally and tonally distinct from the Farseer Trilogy - larger in cast, more politically complex, and centred on a world of commerce and family obligation rather than royal courts - it nonetheless deepens the universe's mythology considerably and introduces characters whose paths will eventually intersect with Fitz's own.