Katherine Kurtz - In the King's Service

ROBARD KINCAID, SIR — a Mearan rebel.

RODDER GILLESPIE, FATHER — a priest of the Diocese of Nyford.

*ROISIAN, QUEEN — heiress of Meara, eldest daughter of Jolyon of Meara and Urracca; twin of Annalind; wife of Malcolm Haldane and Queen of Gwynedd.

RORIK HOWELL, SIR — new Earl of Eastmarch, son of the late Corban Howell.

ROSMERTA, LADY — third wife of Keryell Earl of Lendour.

RUSLAN, BROTHER — a monk serving at the chapel royal of Rhemuth Castle.

SEFFIRA MACATHAN, LADY — a daughter of Jessamy and Sief MacAthan.

SEISYLL ARILAN, LORD — member of King Donal's council of state and also the Camberian Council.

SEPTIMUS DE NORE, FATHER — brother of Bishop Oliver de Nore, briefly a chaplain at Arc-en-Ciel.

SÉ TRELAWNEY, SIR — former squire in the service of Keryell Earl of Lendour, childhood friend of Alyce, Marie, and Ahern, secretly Deryni; knighted at Twelfth Night Court 1082.

SIEF MACATHAN, JUNIOR — firstborn son of Jessamy and Sief, dead at one week of age.

SIEF MACATHAN, LORD — member of King Donal's council of state and also the Camberian Council.

SiEFFANY MACATHAN DE COURCY — eldest daughter of Jessamy and Sief MacAthan, wife of Aurelien de Courcy.

SILE, QUEEN — second wife to King Malcolm Haldane, mother of Richard.

SlLKE ANNE ELIZABETH ROISIAN HALDANE, PRINCESS — second daughter of Donal King of Gwynedd and Queen Richeldis.

SOBBON VON HORTHY, PRINCE — sovereign Prince of Thalia and Hort of Orsal.

SOFIANA VASTOUNI, PRINCESS — elder daughter of Prince Mikhail of Andelon and Princess Ysabeau.

STASHA, PRINCESS — wife of Prince Khoren Vastouni of Andelon.

*STEVANA DE CORWYN, LADY — deceased heiress of Corwyn, granddaughter of Stiofan Duke of Corwyn; second wife of Keryell Earl of Lendour, mother of Alyce, Vera, Ahern, and Marie.

*STIOFAN DE CORWYN, DUKE — great grandfather of Alyce de Corwyn.

*TAYCE FURSTANA, LADY — first cousin of Festil I King of Gwynedd, wife of Lord Richard du Joux; their son was Dominic du Joux, first Duke of Corwyn.

THOMAS CARDIEL — younger brother of Alinor.

TIARNÁN MACRAE, SIR — an aide to King Donal.

TIPHANE, LADY — a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.

TREVOR UDAUT — a squire in 1090, just raised from page at that Twelfth Night.

URIEN, KING — Haldane monarch who died at Killingford.

*URRACCA, PRINCESS — consort of the last sovereign Prince of Meara, mother of twin sisters Roisian and Annalind and also of Magrette.

URSIC, DUKE — Duke of Claibourne.

VERA LAURELA (DE CORWYN) HOWARD — younger twin sister of Alyce, but raised by and believed to be the daughter of Lord Orban Howard and Lady Laurela.

VIVIENNE DE JORDANET, LADY — member of the Camberian Council.

WILCE MELANDRY, SIR — nephew of Iolo, sheriff of Ratharkin.

WILLIAM MACCARTNEY, ARCHBISHOP — Archbishop of Rhemuth.

XENIA NUALA JARONI SWYNBETH, PRINCESS — first daughter and third child of Donal King of Gwynedd and Richeldis.

*YSABEAU, PRINCESS — late wife of Prince Mikhail of Andelon, mother of Sofiana and Michendra.

ZOË BRONWYN MORGAN — a student at Arc-en-Ciel, eldest daughter of Sir Kenneth Morgan.

* denotes a character is already deceased when first mentioned.

ARC-EN-CIEL, CONVENT OF NOTRE DAME D' — royal convent and school just outside Rhemuth.

ARDEVALA — a holding of Michon de Courcy.

ARKELLA — manor of Sir Evan Sullivan, north of Ratharkin; location of a Portal.

ARX FIDEI SEMINARY — one of the principal seminaries in Gwynedd, north of Rhemuth.

BELDOUR — capital city of Torenth.

BREMAGNE — kingdom across the Southern Sea from Gwynedd.

CAERIESSE — legendary land that sank beneath the sea.

CARTHANELLE — royal manor north of Nyford, summer seat of the Dukes of Carthmoor.

CARTHMOOR — holding of Prince Richard Duke of Carthmoor.

CASSAN — duchy in northwest Gwynedd.

CASTEL DEARG — Jared McLain's seat in Kierney.

CASTLE CYNFYN — seat of the Earl of Lendour, in the town of Cynfyn.

CASTLE RUNDEL — an hour's ride from Culdi.

COAMER MOUNTAINS — mountain range marking part of the border between Gwynedd and Torenth.

CONCARADINE — free port on the River Eirian.

COROTH — capital of Corwyn.

CORWYN — ancient duchy in southeast Gwynedd, seat of the Deryni dukes of Corwyn.

CUILTEINE — marcher town in the southwest of Gwynedd.

CYNFYN — capital of Lendour, and Keryell's seat.

DESSE — northernmost navigable point on the River Eirian, several hours' ride south of Rhemuth.

DHASSA — free holy city in the Lendour Mountains.

DJELLARDA — capital of the princely state of Andelon.

EASTMARCH — county in northeast Gwynedd.

FESSY — village in Bremagne, site of an apparition seen near an ancient holy well, where the Ordre de Notre Dame d'Arc-en-Ciel began.

GWYNEDD — principal kingdom of the Eleven Kingdoms, seat of the Haldane kings.

HOWICCE — kingdom linked with the Kingdom of Llannedd, southwest of Gwynedd.

JACA — sovereign principality, one of the Forcinn States.

JENADUR — Sé Trelawney's family seat.

KHELDISH RIDING — portion of the old Principality of Kheldour.

KHELDOUR — ancient principality in northern Gwynedd.

KlERNEY — earldom in northwest of Gwynedd, a secondary holding of the Dukes of Cassan.

KILLINGFORD — site of a decisive battle in the great Gwynedd-Torenth War of 1025.

KILTUIN — small river-port town in Corwyn, north of Coroth.

KlNDALOO — a village north of Ratharkin and Arkella, in Meara.

LEND OUR — earldom north of Corwyn.

LLANNEDD — Kingdom linked with the Kingdom of Howicce, southwest of Gwynedd.

MARLEY — earldom in northeast Gwynedd.

MEARA — formerly independent principality west of Gwynedd, now a province of Gwynedd.

MORGANHALL — Sir Kenneth Morgan's estate.

NUR HALLAJ — sovereign principality adjacent to the Forcinn States.

NUR SAYYID — great university in R'Kassi.

NYFORD — capital of Carthmoor; ancient market town and port.

ORSALIA — ancient name of part of Trailia, whence derives the title «Hort of Orsal».

PURPLE MARCH, THE — area north and west of Rhemuth, adjoining Kierney.

PWYLLHELI — capital of Llannedd.

RATHARKIN — provincial capital of Meara.

REMIGNY — capital of Bremagne.

RHANAME — great seminary in R'Kassi.

RHEMUTH — capital of Gwynedd.

RHENDALL — county in northeast Gwynedd.

RHONDEVALA — where Michon's son Aurelien and Jessamy's eldest daughter live.

R'KASSI — kingdom to the south of the Forcinn States, famous for its horses.

ST. BRIDGET'S ABBEY — convent near Cùilteine.

ST. HILARY'S WITHIN-THE-WALLS — royal basilica adjoining the royal palace in Rhemuth.

SOSTRA — a Corwyn town adjacent to the Torenthi county of the same name.

TORENTH — principal kingdom east of Gwynedd.

TRALIA — more recent name of the sovereign principality ruled by the Hort of Orsal.

TRANSHA — small border county in northwest Gwynedd.

TRE-ARILAN — ancestral home of the Arilan family.

TRURILL — barony between Gwynedd and Meara.

VALORET — former capital of Gwynedd; seat of the Archbishop of Valoret, Primate of All Gwynedd.

ECCLESIASTICUS 5:8

ECCLESIASTICUS 37:2

PROVERBS 22:28

JOB 21:32

ECCLESIASTICUS 22:9

PROVERBS 15:22