The King’s Justice (60 page)

ROCAIL
—Grand Master of the Knights of the Anvil at Djellarda.

ROTHANA
, Lady—novice nun at St. Brigid's; Deryni; daughter of Emir Nur Hallaj and related to Richenda by marriage.

SAER
de Traherne—see
TRAHERNE
.

SICARD
MacArdry, Lord—younger brother of Caulay, Dhugal's uncle, and husband to Caitrin, the Pretender of Meara.

SIDAN
A, Princess—daughter of Caitrin and Sicard, age fourteen; briefly, wife of Kelson; killed on her wedding day by her brother Llewell.

SIWARD
, Bishop—former itinerant bishop, now in charge of the new See of Cardosa.

SOFIANA
—Deryni; sovereign Princess of Andelon, and Richenda's aunt; member of the Camberian Council.

SULIEN
—a R'Kassan Adept.

TEGAN
O Daire—a border chieftain and brigand won over to Caitrin's support; all but outlawed in Brion's day.

THORNE
Hagen—Deryni, in his early fifties; former member of the Camberian Council.

TIBALD
MacErskine—a border chieftain and brigand won over to Caitrin; all but outlawed in Brion's day.

TIERCEL
de Claron—Deryni, in his mid-twenties; youngest member of the Camberian Council.

TOLLIVER
, Bishop Ralf—Bishop of Coroth, age fifty-two.

TRAHERNE
, Saer de—Earl of Rhenndall and brother of Meraude, Nigel's duchess.

VIVIENNE
, Lady—Deryni; elderly co-adjutor of the Camberian Council.

WARIN
de Grey—self-appointed messiah who formerly believed himself divinely designated to destroy all Deryni; has healing power that does not seem to come from Deryni sources.

WENCIT
of Torenth, King—Deryni sorcerer-King of Torenth and scion of the Festillic claim to the Gwynedd throne; slain by Kelson at Llyndruth Meadows in 1121.

WILLIAM
du Chantal—a neighbor baron of Brice of Trurill; gone over to Caitrin.

Appendix II

THE KING'S JUSTICE

Index of Place Names

ABBEYFORD
—site of a wool market.

ARJENOL
—duchy east of Torenth; held, since the death of Lionel, by his brother Mahael.

BALLYMAR
—newly created coastal see in northern Cassan, seat of Bishop Lachlan de Quarles.

CANDOR RHEA
—field outside Rhemuth where King Brion was slain; also site of a sacred well.

CARBURY
—north of Valoret, the former episcopal see of Bishop Creoda, now transferred to Culdi.

CARTHMOOR
—duchy of Prince Nigel, bordering Corwyn and the Royal Honor of Haldane.

CASHIEN
—newly created see on the Gwynedd-Connait border, seat of Bishop Belden of Erne.

CASSAN
—duchy of Duncan McLain since the death of his father, encompassing the Earldom of Kierney and bordering the Mearan Protectorate.

CORWYN
—duchy of Alaric Morgan.

CÙILTEINE
—marcher holding south of Droghera.

CULDI
—site of the synod to elect a new Bishop of Meara, and see of Bishop Creoda, now Bishop of Culdi.

DANOC
—a Gwynedd earldom.

DHASSA
—free holy city and seat of the Bishop of Dhassa, now Bishop Denis Arilan; known for its woodcraft and the shrines of its patron saints, Torin and Ethelburga, that guard its approaches south and north.

DORNA
—plain where Duncan finally found Sicard's army.

DROGHERA
—marcher holding on the Meara-Gwynedd border, south of Culdi.

EASTMARCH
—former earldom of Ian Howell; ceded to the Crown on his death and subsequently given to Burchard de Varian to reward his loyalty in the Torenth War.

ELEVEN KINGDOMS
—ancient name for the entire area including and surrounding Gwynedd.

FIANNA
—wine-growing county across the Southern Sea.

FORCINN BUFFER STATES
—group of independent principalities south of Torenth.

GRECOTHA
—university city, former site of the Varnarite School; seat of Bishop Wolfram de Blanet.

GWYNEDD
—central and largest of the Eleven Kingdoms, held by the Haldanes of Gwynedd since 645.

HALDANE
—crown duchy comprising the central portion of Gwynedd and traditionally held directly by the king.

JENAS
—a Gwynedd earldom.

KHELDISH RIDING
—northeastern portion of the old Kingdom of Kheldour, held directly by the King of Gwynedd; famous for its weavers.

KIERNEY
—earldom and secondary holding of the Dukes of Cassan, now held by Duncan McLain.

LAAS
—ancient capital of independent Meara and periodic center of separatist uprisings in Meara.

LLYNDRUTH MEADOWS
—grasslands at the foot of the Cardosa Defile; site of the final confrontation between Kelson and Wencit of Torenth.

MARBURY
—seat of Ifor, Bishop of Marbury, in Marley.

MARLEY
—former earldom of Bran Coris, now held by his son Brendan, under the regency of Richenda and Morgan.

MEARA
—formerly a sovereign principality, now a possession of the Crown of Gwynedd, west of Gwynedd.

PURPLE MARCH
, The—meadowlands north of Rhemuth; one of the Lordships of the Crown of Gwynedd.

RAMOS
—site of the infamous Council of 917, which ruled stringent measures forbidding Deryni to enter the priesthood, hold office, own property, etc.

RATHARKIN
—new capital of Meara after the union of Meara and Gwynedd in 1025, and seat of the Bishop of Meara.

RHEMUTH
—capital city of Gwynedd, called “the beautiful.”

RHENNDALL
—mountainous earldom in the southern portion of old Kheldour, famous for the blueness of is lakes; held by Saer de Traherne, brother of Duchess Meraude.

R'KASSI
—desert kingdom south and east of the Hort of Orsal, famous for its blooded horses.

SAINT GEORGE
'
S CATHEDRAL
—seat of the Archbishop of Rhemuth, now Thomas Cardiel.

SAINT GILES
'
ABBEY
—convent in the lake region of Shannis Meer, near the Eastmarch border, where Jehana went into retreat before Kelson's birth and after his coronation.

SAINT HILARY
'
S BASILICA
—ancient royal basilica within the walls of Rhemuth Castle, of which Duncan is rector.

SAINT URIEL AND ALL ANGELS
'
CATHEDRAL
—seat of the Bishop of Meara, in Ratharkin.

SHANNIS MEER
—lake region site of the Abbey of Saint Giles, where Jehana went into retreat before Kelson's birth and after his coronation.

TALACARA
—town where Ithel of Meara was captured by Kelson.

TOLAN
—duchy in Torenth, formerly held by Charissa.

TORENTH
—major kingdom east of Gwynedd, now ruled by regents for the boy King Liam, nephew of the late King Wencit.

TRANSHA
—seat of Dhugal MacArdry, Earl of Transha, in the border marches between Kierney and the Purple March.

TRURILL
—ancient border barony between Gwynedd and Meara, west of Culdi; held by Brice of Trurill.

VALORET
—old capital of Gwynedd during the Interregnum, and seat of the Archbishop of Valoret (and Primate of Gwynedd), Bradene.

About the Author

Katherine Kurtz was born in Coral Gables, Florida, during a hurricane. She received a four-year science scholarship to the University of Miami and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry. Medical school followed, but after a year she decided she would rather write about medicine than practice it. A vivid dream inspired Kurtz's Deryni novels, and she sold the first three books in the series on her first submission attempt. She soon defined and established her own sub-genre of “historical fantasy” set in close parallels to our own medieval period featuring “magic” that much resembles extrasensory perception.

While working on the Deryni series, Kurtz further utilized her historical training to develop another sub-genre she calls “crypto-history,” in which the “history behind the history” intertwines with the “official” histories of such diverse periods as the Battle of Britain (
Lammas Night
), the American War for Independence (
Two Crowns for America
), contemporary Scotland (The Adept Series, with coauthor Deborah Turner Harris), and the Knights Templar (also with Harris).

In 1983, Kurtz married the dashing Scott MacMillan; they have a son, Cameron. Until 2007, they made their home in Ireland, in Holybrooke Hall, a mildly haunted gothic revival house, They have recently returned to the United States and taken up residence in a historic house in Virginia, with their five Irish cats and one silly dog. (The ghosts of Holybrooke appear to have remained behind.)

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Copyright © 1985 by Katherine Kurtz

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ISBN: 978-1-5040-3123-3

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