WAT—servant to Rhys [CC].
WEAVER, Mary, and brother Will, and cousin Tom—among the fifty peasants executed at Imre’s command for the murder of Lord Rannulf [CC].
WILLIM, Saint—child martyr to Deryni ill-use; patron saint of the Willimite movement; younger brother of Saint Ercon (CC, SC, CH).
WILLIMITES—anti-Deryni terrorist group sworn to punish Deryni who escape justice through normal legal channels; mostly suppressed in 904 under Imre, but resurging during the latter reign of King Cinhil [CC, (SC), CH].
WILLOWEN, Father—Dean of Grecotha Cathedral and assistant to Bishop Cullen (SC, CH).
WULPHER, Master—Cathan’s steward at Tal Traeth; doubled for Joram under a shape-changing spell [CC, (CH)].
ZEPHRAM of Lorda, Bishop—former Abbot of Saint Foillan’s Abbey, a house of the Ordo Verbi Dei; briefly an itinerant bishop before the Council of Ramos; later, Bishop of Cashien [(CC), SC, CH].
Appendix II
Legends of Saint Camber
INDEX OF PLACES
ALL SAINTS’ CATHEDRAL—seat of the Archbishop of Valoret, Primate of All Gwynedd [CC, SC, CH].
ARGOED—after 905, the Michaeline Commanderie (military headquarters) in Gwynedd, in the southern Lendour Mountains [(SC), CH].
ARNHAM—birthplace of Manfred MacInnis’s son Edward (CH).
BARWICKE—site of Saint Jarlath’s Monastery, a few hours’ ride north of Saint Liam’s Abbey [CC, (CH)].
BRUSTARKIA—a Michaeline House-Minor in Arjenol [CH].
CAERRORIE—Camber’s principal residence as Earl of Culdi, a few hours’ ride northeast of Valoret [CC, SC, (CH)].
CARBURY—coastal town north of Valoret; an episcopal see as of December, 917 (CH).
CHELTHAM—site of the original Michaeline Commanderie in Gwynedd; destroyed by Imre’s orders in 904 (CC, SC, CH).
CLAIBOURNE—principal city of Old Kheldour; later, name given to duchy created for Sighere of Eastmarch, after annexation of Kheldour by Sighere and Cinhil (SC, CH).
COLDOIRE—passage through the Rheljan Mountains, near the Arranal Canyon [SC].
COR CULDI—hereditary ancestral seat and fortress of the Culdi earls, near the city of Culdi, on the Gwynedd-Meara border [CC, SC, (CH)].
CULTEINE—a Michaeline House in western Gwynedd [(SC), CH].
CULDI—central city of the Earldom of Culdi, on the Gwynedd-Meara border [CC, (SCCH)].
DHASSA—free holy city in the Lendour Mountains; seat of the Bishop of Dhassa, who is politically neutral, by tradition [(SC), CH].
DJELLARDA—original Mother House and Commanderie of the Order of Saint Michael, at the tip of the Forcinn Buffer States, overlooking the Anvil of the Lord; sometimes called “The Gate of the Anvil” [(SC), CH].
DOLBAN—ruined manor bought by Guaire of Arliss as a site for the first monastery of the Servants of Saint Camber [SC, (CH)].
EASTMARCH—independent holding of Sighere, Earl of Eastmarch; later given to Hrorik, Sighere’s middle son [SC, (CH)].
EBOR—earldom north of Valoret [CH].
FARNHAM—honor of the Camerons; a Crown holding after Cinhil’s accession (CC).
FIANNA—coastal town across the Southern Sea from Carthmoor; famous for its sweet wines (CH).
GRECOTHA—university city, site of the Varnarite School; seat of the Bishop of Grecotha [SC, CH].
GWYNEDD—central of the Eleven Kingdoms and hub of Haldane power since 645, when the first Haldane High King began to unify the area; seat of the Festillic dynasty, 822–904; restored to the Haldane line in 904 with the accession of Cinhil Haldane.
HANFELL—site of a shrine to Saint Camber [CC, SC, CH].
HAUT EIRIAL—a Michaeline House in the southern Lendour Mountains, destroyed by Imre in 904 and again by the regents in 917 [(SC), CH].
HAUT VERMELIOR—site of a shrine to Saint Camber (CH).
HOWICCE—kingdom to the southwest of Gwynedd; loosely allied with Llannedd (CH).
IOMAIRE—site of battle with Ariella’s forces on Gwynedd-Eastmarch border [SC, (CH)].
KHELDISH RIDING—viceregality broken off Kheldour after its annexation by Sighere and Cinhil in 906 [SC, (CH)].
KHELDOUR—small kingdom north of Gwynedd, famous for textiles and carpets; associated with Rhendall and the Festils through Termod of Rhorau (SC, CH).
KIERNEY—earldom north of Culdi, loosely linked to the Crown of Gwynedd [CH].
LLANNEDD—kingdom southwest of Gwynedd; loosely allied with Howicce (CH).
LLENTIETH—Deryni school near the Connait (CH).
MARLEY—small earldom carved out of Eastmarch and given to Sighere, youngest son of Duke Sighere, in 906 (SC, CH).
MARLOR—barony of Manfred MacInnis (CH).
MARYWELL—town in northern Gwynedd where a Festillic garrison ran amok (CC).
MEARA—kingdom/princedom northwest of Gwynedd; nominally a vassal state of Gwynedd (CC).
MOLLINGFORD—a Michaeline house in the central Gwynedd plain, destroyed by Imre in 904 and again by the regents in 917 (SC, CH).
MOORYN—petty kingdom at the southeast of Gwynedd; formerly a powerful ally under Imre’s reign (SC).
NYFORD—river town in central Gwynedd near Saint Illtyd’s Monastery, and seat of the Bishop of Nyford; site of Imre’s abortive new capital (CC, SC, CH).
RAMOS—southwest of Valoret, the site of the Mother House of the Little Brothers of Saint Ercon; the Council of Ramos was held here in 917 [CH].
RENGARTH—a border town at the Gwynedd-Eastmarch-Torenth joining [SC].
RHEMUTH—ancient capital of Gwynedd under the Haldanes; abandoned during the Festillic Interregnum; restored under Cinhil and Alroy [CC, SC, CH].
RHENDALL—lake region north of Gwynedd; formerly the Festillic holding of Termod of Rhorau; given to Ewan, eldest son of Duke Sighere, in 906, as the secondary title of the Duke of Claibourne and courtesy title of his heir (CC, SC, CH).
RHORAU—fortress seat of Lord Termod, cousin of King Imre, in the Rhendall lake region (CC).
SAINT ELDERON—a Michaeline House in Torenth, on the coast near the East-march border (CH).
SAINT ERCON’S ABBEY—Mother House of the Little Brothers of Saint Ercon, in Ramos [CH].
SAINT FOILLAN’S ABBEY—an Ordo Verbi Dei House in the mountains southeast of Valoret, where Camber and Rhys found Prince Cinhil Haldane [CC].
SAINT ILLTYD’S MONASTERY—Ordo Verbi Dei House on the river near Nyford (CC).
SAINT JARLATH’S MONASTERY—Mother House of the Ordo Verbi Dei, two hours’ ride north of Saint Liam’s Abbey [CC].
SAINT JOHN’S CHURCH—parish church near Fullers’ Alley in Valoret, where the Draper family records were kept [CC].
SAINT LIAM’S ABBEY—a Michaeline-staffed abbey-school about four hours’ ride northeast of Valoret; Joram taught there briefly [CC, (CH)].
SAINT MARY’S IN THE HILLS—isolated monastery in the highlands above Culdi [CH].
SAINT NEOT’S ABBEY—stronghold of the Order of Saint Gabriel, an all-Deryni, esoteric order specializing in Healer’s training; in the Lendour highlands [CH].
SAINT PIRAN’S PRIORY—an Ordo Verbi Dei House about a day’s ride north of Saint Jarlath’s; Joram and Rhys interviewed the first two “Benedicts” there [CC, (CH)].
SAINT ULTAN’S PRIORY—an Ordo Verbi Dei House on the southwest coast of Mooryn [CC].
SHEELE—Rhys and Evaine’s manor house north of Valoret; later, an earldom [CH].
TAL TRAETH—Cathan MacRorie’s manor house in Valoret [CC].
TORENTH—kingdom to the east of Gwynedd; ruled by the Deryni King Nimur [SC, (CH)].
TRURILL—castle of Lord Adrian MacLean, Master of Kierney, near Cor Culdi [CH].
VALORET—Festillic capital of Gwynedd, 822–904 [CC, SC, CH].
WARRINGHAM—site of a shrine to Saint Camber (CH).
About the Author
Katherine Kurtz was born in Coral Gables, Florida, during a hurricane. She received a four-year science scholarship to the Unive
rsity 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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