Camber the Heretic (79 page)

LESLIE
, Dafydd and Jowerth—
see Dafydd Leslie
and
Jowerth Leslie
.

LIREL
, Dame—former nurse to the princes (CH).

LLEW
—a guard of Bishop Cullen's household [CH].

LORCAN
, Brother—Ansel MacRorie's alias as a Michaeline lay brother [CH].

MACGREGOR
, Bishop Ailin—
see Ailin MacGregor, Bishop
.

MACINNIS
—
see Hubert Edward
, and
Manfred MacInnis
.

MACRORIE
—surname of Camber's family;
see Ansel, Camber, Cathan, Davin, Evaine, Joram
.

MAHAEL
—ancient Deryni historian, author of
History of Kheldour
(CH).

MAIRI
MacLean, Lady—wife to Adrian MacLean and mother of Camber Allin MacLean [CH].

MALDRED
, Earl—one of Imre's warlords; assassinated by Coel Howell's hireling [CC].

MANFRED
MacInnis, Lord—Baron of Marlor, and Earl of Culdi after Davin's attainder; brother of Bishop Hubert and father of Bishop Edward MacInnis of Arnham [CH].

MARIS
—maidservant to Princess Ariella [CC].

MARK
of Festil, Prince—son of Ariella and Imre and carrier of the Festillic line after his parents' death [SC].

MEGAN
de Cameron, Queen—wife and queen to Cinhil; mother of Alroy, Javan, and Rhys Michael; formerly Camber's ward; lived 888–907 [CC, SC, (CH)].

MELISSA
Howell, Lady—sister of Coel Howell; brought to court to tempt Imre (CC).

MICAH
, Brother—a Servant of Saint Camber [CH].

MICHAELINES
—priests, knights, and lay brothers of the Order of Saint Michael, a militant fighting and teaching Order, predominantly Deryni, formed during the reign of King Bearand Haldane to hold the Anvil of the Lord against Moorish incursions and defend the sea-lanes [CC, SC, CH].

MURDOCH
of Carthane, Lord—human Earl of Carthane; one of King Alroy's regents [SC, CH].

NATHAN
, Father—a Michaeline priest [CC, SC].

NESTA
—Deryni seeress who foretold the doom of Caeriesse (CH).

NEVAN
, Bishop Davet—
see Davet Nevan, Bishop
.

NIALLAN
Trey, Bishop—Deryni Bishop of Dhassa [SC, CH].

NICHOLAS
Draper—the third “Benedict”; grandson of Daniel;
see Cinhil
.

NIMUR
, King—Deryni King of Torenth; connected to the Festils of Gwynedd through the female line (SC).

O
'
BEIRNE
, Bishop Dermot—
see Dermot O'Beirne, Bishop
.

O
'
NEILL
, Lord Tavis—
see Tavis O'Neill, Lord
.

ORIEL
, Lord—a young Healer [CH].

ORIN
—Deryni mystic and magician; author of the Protocols of Orin, a collection of scrolls containing extremely potent spells of Deryni magic (SC, CH).

ORISS
, Archbishop Robert—Archbishop of Rhemuth; formerly Vicar General of the
Ordo Verbi Dei
[CC, SC, CH].

PARGAN
Howiccan—
see Howiccan, Pargan
.

PATRICK
, Brother—Prior of Saint Foillan's Abbey; later, Abbot [CC].

PAUL
, Brother—monk at Saint Foillan's Abbey [CC].

PAULIN
of Ramos, Bishop—stepson of Earl Tammaron; founder of the Little Brothers of Saint Ercon (912), a teaching order; itinerant bishop and later first bishop of new See of Stavenham [CH].

PHINEAS
, Brother—gate-warder at Saint Foillan's Abbey [CC].

PIEDUR
, Sir—knight assigned to guard the Princes Javan and Rhys Michael [CH].

PORRIC
Lunal, Father—priest of the Order of Saint Michael and a candidate to succeed Alister Cullen as Vicar General (SC).

QUERON
Kinevan, Dom—Deryni Healer-priest, formerly of Order of Saint Gabriel; a founder of the Servants of Saint Camber; later, a member of the Camberian Council replacing Jaffray [SC, CH].

RANALD
Gilstrachan, Lord—Deryni assassin executed by the regents [CH].

RANNULF
, Lord—Deryni noble drawn and quartered by Willimite terrorists in 903 (CC, CH).

RAYMOND
, Bishop—former Prince-Bishop of Dhassa and maternal uncle of Alister Cullen, whom he ordained to the priesthood (SC).

REVAN
—lame former carpenter's apprentice saved by Cathan; clark and tutor to Rhys's and Evaine's children [CC, SC, CH].

REYNARD
, Brother—infirmarian at Saint Foillan's Abbey [CC].

RHUN
of Horthness, Baron—called The Ruthless, age 32; one of King Alroy's regents; later, Earl of Sheele [CH].

RHYS MICHAEL
Alister Haldane, Prince—youngest surviving son of Cinhil, age 10 [CH].

RHYS
Thuryn, Lord—Deryni physician and Healer; husband of Evaine and son-in-law to Camber; developer of the Thuryn technique of concentration; an original member of the Camberian Council [CC, SC, CH].

RHYSEL
Jocelyn Thuryn—daughter of Rhys and Evaine, age 7 [CH].

ROBEAR
, Sir—knight assigned to guard the Princes Javan and Rhys Michael [CH].

ROBERT
Oriss, Archbishop—
see Oriss, Archbishop Robert
.

ROLAND
, Bishop—Auxiliary Bishop of Valoret under Anscom; died 916 (CC).

RONDEL
—knight in the service of Manfred, Earl of Culdi [CH].

ROYSTON
John Draper—alias of Prince Alroy, who was father to Cinhil (CC, CH).

SAM
'
L
—loyal retainer of Camber at Caerrorie [CC].

SANTARE
, Lord—Earl of Grand-Tellie; one of Imre's warlords [CC].

SELKIRK
, Master—an arms master to Imre [CC].

SELLAR
, Wat and Tim—among the fifty peasants executed at Imre's command for the murder of Lord Rannulf [CC].

SHAW
Farquharson, Lord—Deryni assassin killed in ambush on princes [CH].

SHOLTO
MacDhugal, Lord—Deryni bowman who escaped from ambush/assassination attempt on Princes Javan and Rhys Michael [CH].

SIGHERE
, Duke—former independent Earl of Eastmarch; first Duke of Claibourne; technically a regent of King Alroy, but failing health never permitted him to assume his duties [SC, (CH)].

SIGHERE
of Marley, Lord—youngest son of Duke Sighere and later Earl of Marley [SC, CH].

SIMONN
—Healer student at Saint Neot's [CH].

SORLE
—Cinhil's squire; knighted by Cinhil at Twelfth Night, 917 [SC, CH].

STEPHEN
—student at Saint Neot's [CH].

SULIEN
of R'Kassi—ancient Deryni adept, author of
Annals
(CH).

TAMMARON
Fitz-Arthur, Earl—one of King Alroy's regents; Chancellor of Gwynedd after Alister Cullen [SC, CH].

TAVIS
O'Neill, Lord—Healer to Prince Javan [CH].

TERMOD
of Rhorau, Lord—Deryni princeling, cousin of Imre, executed by Willimite terrorists in 903 (CC, SC).

THOMAS
—a guard of Rhys's and Evaine's household [CH].

THOMAS
—bailiff at Dolban, for the Servants of Saint Camber (SC).

THOMAS
—a former Archbishop of Valoret (CH).

THOMPSON
, Dickon—a baker [CH].

THURYN
—surname of Rhys.

TIEG
Joram Thuryn—younger son of Rhys and Evaine; a future Healer, age 3 [CH].

TIVAR
, Dom—Gabrilite priest and weapons master at Saint Neot's [CH].

TOBAN
—a hospice page [SC].

TOMAIS
—squire to Prince Rhys Michael [CH].

TORCUILL
de la Marche, Lord—Deryni baron; formerly a Festillic minister, now on Cinhil's staff; dismissed by the regents [SC, CH].

TORIN
—a guard of Bishop Cullen's household [CH].

TREFOR
of Morland, Lord—Deryni assassin killed in ambush on princes [CH].

TREY
, Bishop Niallan—
see Niallan Trey, Bishop
.

TURLOUGH
, Bishop—one of Gwynedd's itinerant bishops; later, first Bishop of Marbury [SC, CH].

TURSTANE
, Dom—Gabrilite Healer; a stonecutter's apprentice before his Healer's training; an original member of the Camberian Council (CH).

UDAUT
, Earl—Constable of Gwynedd [SC, CH].

ULLIAM
ap Lugh, Bishop—Bishop of Nyford [SC, CH].

ULRIC
—novice Healer at Saint Neot's who went berserk while Queron still taught there; killed by Dom Emrys (CH).

UMPHRED
—Camber's bailiff at Caerrorie [CC, SC].

VALERIAN
, Brother—Latin master to the princes [CH].

VARNARITES
—Deryni adepts and scholars who founded a proto-university at Grecotha, late 7th–early 8th century; the Gabrilite Order broke off pre-745.

WAT
—servant to Rhys [CC].

WEAVER
, Mary, and brother Will, and cousin Tom—among the fifty peasants executed at Imre's command for the murder of Lord Rannulf [CC].

WILLIM
, Saint—child martyr to Deryni ill-use; patron saint of the Willimite movement; younger brother of Saint Ercon (CC, SC, CH).

WILLIMITES
—anti-Deryni terrorist group sworn to punish Deryni who escape justice through normal legal channels; mostly suppressed in 904 under Imre, but resurging during the latter reign of King Cinhil [CC, (SC), CH].

WILLOWEN
, Father—Dean of Grecotha Cathedral and assistant to Bishop Cullen (SC, CH).

WULPHER
, Master—Cathan's steward at Tal Traeth; doubled for Joram under a shape-changing spell [CC, (CH)].

ZEPHRAM
of Lorda, Bishop—former Abbot of Saint Foillan's Abbey, a house of the
Ordo Verbi Dei;
briefly an itinerant bishop before the Council of Ramos; later, Bishop of Cashien [(CC), SC, CH].

Appendix II

Legends of Saint Camber

INDEX OF PLACES

ALL SAINTS
'
CATHEDRAL
—seat of the Archbishop of Valoret, Primate of All Gwynedd [CC, SC, CH].

ARGOED
—after 905, the Michaeline Commanderie (military headquarters) in Gwynedd, in the southern Lendour Mountains [(SC), CH].

ARNHAM
—birthplace of Manfred MacInnis's son Edward (CH).

BARWICKE
—site of Saint Jarlath's Monastery, a few hours' ride north of Saint Liam's Abbey [CC, (CH)].

BRUSTARKIA
—a Michaeline House-Minor in Arjenol [CH].

CAERRORIE
—Camber's principal residence as Earl of Culdi, a few hours' ride northeast of Valoret [CC, SC, (CH)].

CARBURY
—coastal town north of Valoret; an episcopal see as of December, 917 (CH).

CHELTHAM
—site of the original Michaeline Commanderie in Gwynedd; destroyed by Imre's orders in 904 (CC, SC, CH).

CLAIBOURNE
—principal city of Old Kheldour; later, name given to duchy created for Sighere of Eastmarch, after annexation of Kheldour by Sighere and Cinhil (SC, CH).

COLDOIRE
—passage through the Rheljan Mountains, near the Arranal Canyon [SC].

COR CULDI
—hereditary ancestral seat and fortress of the Culdi earls, near the city of Culdi, on the Gwynedd-Meara border [CC, SC, (CH)].

CULTEINE
—a Michaeline House in western Gwynedd [(SC), CH].

CULDI
—central city of the Earldom of Culdi, on the Gwynedd-Meara border [CC, (SCCH)].

DHASSA
—free holy city in the Lendour Mountains; seat of the Bishop of Dhassa, who is politically neutral, by tradition [(SC), CH].

DJELLARDA
—original Mother House and Commanderie of the Order of Saint Michael, at the tip of the Forcinn Buffer States, overlooking the Anvil of the Lord; sometimes called “The Gate of the Anvil” [(SC), CH].

DOLBAN
—ruined manor bought by Guaire of Arliss as a site for the first monastery of the Servants of Saint Camber [SC, (CH)].

EASTMARCH
—independent holding of Sighere, Earl of Eastmarch; later given to Hrorik, Sighere's middle son [SC, (CH)].

EBOR
—earldom north of Valoret [CH].

FARNHAM
—honor of the Camerons; a Crown holding after Cinhil's accession (CC).

FIANNA
—coastal town across the Southern Sea from Carthmoor; famous for its sweet wines (CH).

GRECOTHA
—university city, site of the Varnarite School; seat of the Bishop of Grecotha [SC, CH].

GWYNEDD
—central of the Eleven Kingdoms and hub of Haldane power since 645, when the first Haldane High King began to unify the area; seat of the Festillic dynasty, 822–904; restored to the Haldane line in 904 with the accession of Cinhil Haldane.

HANFELL
—site of a shrine to Saint Camber [CC, SC, CH].

HAUT EIRIAL
—a Michaeline House in the southern Lendour Mountains, destroyed by Imre in 904 and again by the regents in 917 [(SC), CH].

HAUT VERMELIOR
—site of a shrine to Saint Camber (CH).

HOWICCE
—kingdom to the southwest of Gwynedd; loosely allied with Llannedd (CH).