Camber the Heretic (80 page)

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 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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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1981 by Katherine Kurtz

Map by Shelley Shapiro

Cover design by Michel Vrana

ISBN: 978-1-5040-3120-2

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