The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)
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Both men were Uther’s sons, but Mordred was the beloved heir and Arthur the upstart bastard. Yet Arthur’s banishment could not stop every Dumnonian believing that the bastard was their country’s brightest hope; the young warrior from across the seas who would save us from the Saxons and take back the Lost Lands of Lloegyr.
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In truth the thrones were nothing more than chairs fetched from the feasting hall and tricked out with saddlecloths, and in front of each chair, resting on the floor and leaning against the dais, were the shields of the kingdoms. There had been a time when thirty-three shields might have rested against the dais, but now the tribes of Britain fought amongst themselves and some of the kingdoms had been buried in Lloegyr by Saxon blades. One of the purposes of this High Council was to make peace between the remaining British kingdoms, a peace that was already threatened because Powys and Siluria ...more
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I wondered how I had been so blind as not to see what horrors Uther’s death would bring. Kingdoms need kings, and without them they are nothing but empty land inviting a conqueror’s spears.
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fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you’ll just weep yourself to death.
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Yet, unfit or not, I killed, and may God forgive me that, and all the other sins too numerous to remember.
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Britain is a cauldron, Derfel, and Arthur will stir it to horror.’