The Chosen Apprentice is the first novel in the Varicean Saga and continues the story from where the Jedi Padmé Trilogy left off. The novel is very much a departure from the Jedi Padmé Trilogy and sets up quite a number of plot details and characters for it's sequel Prelude of Fear. This story depicts the Transition Period, which was a time of much change from the Galactic Republic still recovering from the devastation of the Clone Wars which finished three years before.