Count Scar
Magic, heresy, and treachery: Count Galoran must face them all to keep his high castle.
- Galoran is a scarred warrior and younger son, cast aside by the emperor when his days of service seem over.
- Melchior is a priest trained in the difficult and highly dangerous magical arts, with dark family secrets to hide.
The two are thrown together when Galoran unexpectedly inherits the castle and county of Peyrefixade, and Melchior is assigned as his spiritual advisor. Galoran soon learns that others covet his castle, the heretics who were supposed to have been defeated in the great war against them but who still hide in their mountain fastnesses. They practice powerful magic that, it seems, can only be countered by another magic worker--but can Galoran trust his chaplain?
Set in an alternate version of southern France in the Middle Ages, the story is told from the alternating viewpoints of the two main characters, who may see the same events very differently. The outcome turns on mystery, betrayal, desperate battles, religious passion, and the fundamental question of who is really the enemy.
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Count Scar
Magic, heresy, and treachery: Count Galoran must face them all to keep his high castle.
- Galoran is a scarred warrior and younger son, cast aside by the emperor when his days of service seem over.
- Melchior is a priest trained in the difficult and highly dangerous magical arts, with dark family secrets to hide.
The two are thrown together when Galoran unexpectedly inherits the castle and county of Peyrefixade, and Melchior is assigned as his spiritual advisor. Galoran soon learns that others covet his castle, the heretics who were supposed to have been defeated in the great war against them but who still hide in their mountain fastnesses. They practice powerful magic that, it seems, can only be countered by another magic worker--but can Galoran trust his chaplain?
Set in an alternate version of southern France in the Middle Ages, the story is told from the alternating viewpoints of the two main characters, who may see the same events very differently. The outcome turns on mystery, betrayal, desperate battles, religious passion, and the fundamental question of who is really the enemy.
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Count Scar

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Overview

Magic, heresy, and treachery: Count Galoran must face them all to keep his high castle.
- Galoran is a scarred warrior and younger son, cast aside by the emperor when his days of service seem over.
- Melchior is a priest trained in the difficult and highly dangerous magical arts, with dark family secrets to hide.
The two are thrown together when Galoran unexpectedly inherits the castle and county of Peyrefixade, and Melchior is assigned as his spiritual advisor. Galoran soon learns that others covet his castle, the heretics who were supposed to have been defeated in the great war against them but who still hide in their mountain fastnesses. They practice powerful magic that, it seems, can only be countered by another magic worker--but can Galoran trust his chaplain?
Set in an alternate version of southern France in the Middle Ages, the story is told from the alternating viewpoints of the two main characters, who may see the same events very differently. The outcome turns on mystery, betrayal, desperate battles, religious passion, and the fundamental question of who is really the enemy.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940013823693
Publisher: Daimbert
Publication date: 12/07/2011
Series: Count Scar , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 420 KB

About the Author

C. Dale Brittain is both a medieval historian and a fantasy writer. This book, co-written with Robert A. Bouchard, is as close as she comes to writing fiction about the real Middle Ages. "The magic of course puts it into the realm of fantasy, but other than that I've tried to make the assumptions and motivations of the characters close to what they really would have been like in the thirteenth century. The castle of Peyrefixade is based on several actual castles in the Pyrenees. If something is supposed to be set in the real Middle Ages, I want to see medieval people, not twenty-first-century characters wearing medieval outfits."
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