The Worlds of Katherine Kurtz

Yes, this is all at the moment.

LeDuc, thank you for commenting on this so it showed up in Recent.

Is this the whole story?

Quote from: Nezz on April 20, 2023, 01:37:42 AMmakes another tally mark in the Who-thinks-Kelson-is-hot? board

I think Kelson is a babe around this time! Who desperately needed to be spanked for being naughty.

  WOW! you must have had some whopping 'high' fever.

LOL! OHHH My 'lord'! I definitely had a good ol' laugh reading this short story.

It's perfectly normal for siblings to talk things through and out. These two sisters have that 'royal' thing to contend with, plus so much wanting to be loved for WHO they are, not WHAT they are. Richelle has figured most of that out, and being the big/elder sister, can share her insights with Araxie and quell her doubts.

Nicely written.

Well, well, well, something from another Kingdom, and not Torenth or Gwynedd.............. Bremagne! Thank you for that. I've been having and writing my own set of stories.

I do like reading a good story, and the combination of the 'old' and 'new' is a delight. Please, MORE!

But when you think of all the innocent people including children he had burned as suspected Deryni, you can hardly consider him a saint, more like a devil in saint's clothing

I am not turning to the dark side!!

However, unlike Hubert who I think was straightforwardly evil, there are things that can be said from Loris's PoV.

He had been conditioned from earliest youth to believe that Deryni and their magic were manifestations of the devil; he would have believed that the devil could masquerade as an angel of light, so kindly or apparently "good" Deryni were simply traps to fool the unwary. He watches his King, Brion, be tricked into using unholy magic to defeat the Marluk,  an action which leaves him in thrall to the evil influence of Alaric Morgan. 

When Brion dies, thanks to the godly Queen Jehana, there seems a chance to rescue the young King Kelson from evil counsel, but this fails at the last minute  and the travesty of a coronation reveals the extent to which the kingdom has been corrupted. 

Fighting courageously on, despite the apparent victory of evil, and being willing to use what tools God gives into his hands, Loris is at last summarily executed, a martyr on behalf of defenceless humanity.

This I'm sure is the story Loris told himself.