The Throne of Bones
“* * * *Many of the House of Vendren have ruled our land, and almost as many were called Vendriel, so they took epithets to mark one from another. That one called the Insidiator, when our island was beset on three coasts by the Thallashoi, struck each army in a separate stroke, hacked each into chips and cracked each chip to splinters. Some named Vendriel did well; none was good. But the Vendriel Vendren of whom I write was called the Good: so called with no hint of irony by anyone who prized his fortune, his sanity and his life; addressed as “Good Lord Vendriel” with no twitch of the lip or shift of the eye by anyone who feared the devastation of his household, down to his meanest slave’s unhatched nits. It was this Vendriel who built the New Palace, shunned since the ultimate metamorphosis of his great-granddaughter, Lady Lereela, although its construction is ascribed to her reign by historians less scrupulous than I. So black is the shadow cast by that Lady, last of the Vendren rule...rs, that it has leeched the blackness from the names of her ancestors.MoreLess
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