The King's Quest Companion

King's Quest Companion is an officially authorized walkthrough/hint book that covered each of the games in a novella style format written by Peter Spear. There was at least 4 editions, with the last edition covering up to King's Quest 7. The short story adaptations often added new history to the story of daventry in the process, as well as adding more detailed background to items found, while remaining true to the games.

Each of the novelizations were written as if they came from a historian in Daventry recounting the events surrounding each game, and what the antagonist had done during the course of the game.

The framing story around the entire book is that Peter Spear was given Documents in the real world that had been sent to him from the kingdom of Daventry by a court scribe named "Derek Karlvaegen" telling about the world of Daventry and history of its people, how they communicate with our world, and why he came to bring the information in the first place. He brought with him a handful of court chronicles know as the "Chronicles of Daventry".

KQ1 novelization was written for the first edition of the book and adapts KQ1AGI only is written by the Daventry Scribe Derek Karlvaegen himself.

KQ1 remake was not adapted into a novelization due to conceit that the story was supposed to be a historical document that actually came to him from the "real" kingdom of of daventry, and that Roberta Williams must have received her ideas for the stories from dreams sent from the real of daventry. The author explained that he could not rewrite the court chronicles given to him by Derk to reflect the changes to the story because he would be rewriting the history of the events of King's Quest 1, thus "reducing it to mere fiction", something he wasn't prepared to admit. He didn't want to "misrepresent the facts" given to him by the scribe Derk Karlvaegen.

The adaptation of KQ2 is supposed to be from the court chronicle from Daventry's prime minister Gerwain, recounting the story from what King Graham told him.

The adaptation of KQ3 is two parts. The first part is some scrolls on magic written by Alexander. The second part is interview that Derek Karlvaegen's had with Alexander himself about the events of KQ3.

The adaptation of KQ4 includes two documents is an article from a magazine, "Ten Days In Tamir" first published in "Telltale Traveler". The second part is Valanice telling the recounting the story of her Daughter's involvement in Tamir.

KQ5 adaptation is two parts. First part is Alexander writing about the magic of Iconomancy. Second part is Derek Karlvaegan recording the events that transpired during kq5 at the behest of King Graham.

KQ6 adaptation includes 2 documents, both written by Derek Karlvaegen. First part is his knowledge of the Land of green isles. While the second part is his chronicle of the events during KQ6 for Alexander.