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[[File:Openingpage.png|thumb|346x346px|The opening foreword of ''The Best is Yet to Come'']]{{Quote|Something also of note, one of the lords in the far west of the island decided to break away from the Triumvirate. I've been told that he bought his way to freedom, but I haven't seen the money anywhere. Well, I trust that Lord Valtara has everything under control.|<i>The Best is Yet to Come</i>, Pg. 19|}}'''''Travels and Tales of Emilia Rivers''''' (commonly referred to as '''''Travels and Tales''''') is a series of journals by [[Emilia Rivers]], a Valtaran politician and diplomat. The journals detail Rivers' time as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the [[Triumvirate of Ceyreto]], her participation in the Ceyreto-Zydel War.
 
So far each new entry has received general positive reviews. ''The Best is Yet to Come'' has since become one the best-selling works to come out of the [[Commonwealth of Blackthorn]], and the series as a whole became the #1 best-selling series of books on Alathra by 4AC4 AC. The series has been popular with contemporary historians, seeing it as a reliable first-hand account of events in Ceyreto following [[Valtaran Civil War]].
 
As of writing, eight entries in the series have been published. It's unknown how many entries the series will have, with Rivers herself stating that "Travels and Tales will continue so long as my life isn't boring".
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* Due to the autobiographical nature of the journals, many of the events of the journals are ever so slightly skewed. In an interview, Rivers' has admitted that while all of the events in the journals are 100% factual, a few minor details about how she acts have been altered. In a later interview, she admitted that the most common change is the honourifics in which she refers to come characters. She admitted that she never in real life refers to the Emperor of Aether as "Lord Noxaros", but rather by his first name, Acero.
* In an interview following ''The Lake and the Rivers'', Rivers admitted that many of the chronology of the journals is rather hazy and times, and that many of the "weeks" were actually spans of days or months.
* The first five books in the series share a coincidentally similar chronology to the events of ''The Acts'', a series of concept albums by American rock band The Dear Hunter. Both feature their main protagonist:
** Leaving their home to explore the world (''Act I'' and ''The Best is Yet to Come'')
** Being shipped off to, and having to directly face the horrors of, war (''Act II/III'' and ''The Tyrant King/Year of the Rat'')
** Having to deal with the consequences of suddenly becoming the mayor of their home city (''Act IV'' and ''With Any Luck'')
** Communicate with ghosts, shortly before their fight with the main antagonist (''Act V'' and ''Ghosts'')
*The similarity between ''Travels and Tales'' and ''The Acts'' is referenced in the title of Volume VII, as "The Lake and the River" is the name of a song by the band.
 
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