The Worlds of Katherine Kurtz

I'm not sure how these various factions will play out. I have also not decided there are any game mechanics that go along with these factions. So at this time, Player Characters are not allowed to be any faction except Ordinaries.

But there are several factions both major and minor.

The Camberian Council
Only 7 members are on the CC.

The Order
Feyd's network of spies and assassins.

Kelson's Court
This is King Kelson, his Privy Council, and other members of the royal court.

Custodes
A secret society of Priests who want to re-establish the Statues of Ramos and remove all Deryni from positions of power. Including the King.

Kingsmen
Sworn to uphold the peace between Human and Deryni. They represent the Crown.

New Williamites
Fanatical anti-Deryni Humans that are causing trouble across Gwynedd.

Barwickes
The Deryni answer to the New Williamites and just as deadly.

Ordinaries
Not really a faction. This is everyone else, caught in the middle. Including the Player Characters.

Quote from: Jerusha on Today at 02:40:03 PMBynw, on a FS list of traits you include Physicking, a human trait that allows a human to heal (though not in the Deryni sense).  However, on the list above and in Tiny Dungeons it is not listed.  I'd like to use this for my character.  Do you have a more complete definition for this?

Use the Healer trait description in Tiny Dungeons for it.

Bynw, on a FS list of traits you include Physicking, a human trait that allows a human to heal (though not in the Deryni sense).  However, on the list above and in Tiny Dungeons it is not listed.  I'd like to use this for my character.  Do you have a more complete definition for this?

I liked this very much, Nezz!  Well done, and I can truly picture Morgan getting increasingly antsy as the winter threatens to close in. Not a man to want to be cooped when something feels so very wrong....

I've enjoyed The Kings Ride, Nezz.  Thanks for posting it.
Like many, I hope that you finish it someday.

Bad health does interrupt the writing.
It's good that you took the time and energy to get this story, however incomplete, posted.
Again, thanks.   

Quote from: revanne on May 02, 2024, 08:59:42 AMI really liked this Nezz, I so hope you write more Deryni fanfic.

Thanks! I've been working on a character to join y'all in the Forgotten Shadows game, so maybe I'll get the opportunity to practice a little more.

Quote from: Shiral on May 02, 2024, 06:52:12 PMWhat, you mean that's ALL?? Want MORE!Good story, Nezz!

Thank you!

QuoteAddressing what Laurna mentioned re Alaric being up in Cardosa, based on what Brion tells Kelson on the morning of the hunt, Alaric was in Cardosa at Brion's behest, keeping an eye on "a crisis brewing in Cardosa."

If there ever was a "crisis" beyond just getting Morgan out of sight (out of mind) so the king could quell the rumors, I was never able to find it. Unless the crisis in question is just a matter of Brion sending Morgan to keep an eye on the Torenthi forces. Which doesn't really seem like a "crisis" to me, but hey, I'm sure Brion knows more about it than I do.

QuoteI doubt he meant Alaric to have to stay up in Cardosa all winter--he was much too valuable to Brion to risk his being captured and likely killed by Wencit.

Agreed. That's why I presented Alaric as getting so antsy, knowing he could be trapped in Cardosa any day, once the snows began.

QuoteThe question is whether he was also sent that far away to let the Court calm down about Alaric's  suspected ambition. OR if his being away from Court where nobody knew where he was or why were the REASON the whole court got a bee in their collective bonnet about the possibility that Alaric wanted to usurp the throne--a rumor that wouldn't have raised it's nasty head had Alaric been at Court in plain sight that year.

I think the first. We know that Ian had spent at least three months pushing rumors about Morgan, so I can see loose talk about Morgan swirling throughout most of August and part of September before the King sends him off so that Brion can do damage-control.

QuoteOr possibility three...did Brion and Alaric invent and subtly enhance the rumors to give cover to Alaric's long absence from Rhemuth?

I personally don't think this is the case, as we know that Ian was neck-deep in the Besmirch Morgan ploy.

Thank you for the info, JudithR. That is exactly what I see on the US Amazon site. Thanks for checking the UK one fore me!

Thank you, Bywn!

 Not sure if this is useful information for you: Amazon.uk lists a kindle edition from £4.99.    Sorry - jumped the gun - second look says not available - mea culpa