Camber the Heretic

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Author(s):

Katherine Kurtz

First Pub:

1981

Genre(s):

Fantasy

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Chapters:

See 32

Prologue - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people. -I Peter 2:9

I - For of the Most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. -Ecclesiasticus 38 :2

II - And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. -Daniel 11:21

III - He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that he may have joy of him in the end. -Ecclesiasticus 30:1

IV - Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children. -Ecclesiasticus 11.:28

V - For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie; though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come. -Habakkuk 2:3

VI - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery -I Timothy 4:14

VII - Or ever the silver cord be loosed .. . then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. -Ecclesiastes 12:6-7

VIII - Now I say, that the heir, so long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by his father. -Galatians 4:1-2

IX - Woe unto thee, O land, when thy king is a child. -Ecclesiastes 10:16

X - But at present it is expedient for thee, and for thy house, to be grieved. -III Hermes 7:12

XI - Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? -Isaiah 28:9

XII Show new signs, and make other strange wonders.-Ecclesiasticus 36:6

XIII - Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him in the wilderness. -Ecclesiasticus 45:18

XIV - And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand. -Micah 5:12

XV - I will not be ashamed to defend a friend; neither will I hide myself from him. -Ecclesiasticus 22:25

XVI - For the elements were changed in themselves by a kind of harmony. -Wisdom of Solomon 19:18

XVII - A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. -Ecclesiasticus 6:14

XVIII - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. -Isaiah 40:3

XIX - There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous. -Nahum 3:19

XX - Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him. -Wisdom of Solomon 2:17

XXI - An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he imagineth how to throw thee into a pit: he will weep with his eyes, but if he find opportunity, he will not be satisfied with blood. -Ecclesiasticus 12:16

XXII - For the chief-priest has his proper services, and to the priests their proper place is appointed. -I Clement 18:18

XXIII - And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every stronghold. -Habakkuk 1:16

XXIV - They plundered the sanctuary of God, as though there was no avenger. -Psalms of Solomon 8:10

XXV - In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine. -Hosea 7:5

XXVI - So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by. -Zechariah 3:5

XXVII - As for the illusions of art magick, they were put down, and their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace. -Wisdom of Solomon 17:7

XXVIII - It is the part of a brave combatant to be wounded, yet overcome. -Polycarp 1:14

XXIX - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. -Isaiah 47:9

XXX - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branches thereof will not cease. -Job 14:7

Epilogue - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. -Isaiah 58:12

Internal ID:

2414

Series:

<- Saint Camber - The Bishop's Heir ->

Deryni*

#6 of 16

Deryni*

An encompasing series of several trilogies about the Deryni by Katherine Kurtz.

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1) Deryni Rising
2) Deryni Checkmate
3) High Deryni
4) Camber of Culdi
5) Saint Camber
6) Camber the Heretic
7) The Bishop's Heir
8) The King's Justice
9) The Quest for Saint Camber
10) The Harrowing of Gwynedd
11) King Javan's Year
12) The Bastard Prince
13) King Kelson's Bride
14) In the King's Service
15) Childe Morgan
16) The King's Deryni

Legends of Camber of Culdi

#3 of 3

Legends of Camber of Culdi

A series within the Deryni world written by Katherine Kurtz. Also called "Legends of Saint Camber".

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1) Camber of Culdi
2) Saint Camber
3) Camber the Heretic

Copyright:

Dedication:

For Sven Lugar and John Innis

First Sentence:

The document was written in the tight, crabbed court hand of one of the castle scribes, and covered an entire large sheet of creamy vellum.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

As the others came into the chapel, and she and Joram turned to greet them, she could have sword she saw her father smile.

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Added: 06-Aug-2019

Last Updated: 17-May-2023

Publications

01-Nov-1981

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Nov-1981

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.95

Pages*:

490

Catalog ID:

27784

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

23192

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-27784-8

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-27784-8

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Darrell K Sweet - Cover Artist

DARK AGE
DESCENDING

Camber of Culdi, most powerful of the magical Deryni race, was worried. Twelve years before, he had "died" and assumed the form of Bishop Allister Cullen, in order to guide the human king Cinhil and ensure peace between Deryni and humans in Gwynedd. In most ways, he and the Camberian Council he headed had been successful.

But now Cinhil was dying, leaving the kingdom to his sickly young son Alroy, in whose name a council of regents would govern. And Camber knew those regents to be evil men, greedy for power and filled with hatred for all Deryni. Once they ruled, no Deryni would be safe. Already persecutions were beginning, with terror, rapine and genocide soon to follow. Even the Church could offer no sure refuge.

The only hope of Camber and the Council lay in a discovery by the Healer Rhys, who had learned - without understanding - to block off all Deryni talents. So blocked, some few Deryni might go underground, undetectable as other than merely human.

But that meant that the race of Deryni could be saved only by being destroyed as Deryni!

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBL.C ATION

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Notes and Comments:

First Ballantine Book Edition: November 1981

Includes:
Appendix I: Index of Characters
Appendix II: Index of Places

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Author(s)

Katherine Kurtz
Birth: 18 Oct 1944 Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Notes:

From About the Author in Bishop's Heir:

Katherine Kurtz was awarded a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Miami and attended medical school for a year before deciding she would rather write about medicine than practice it. She earned an M.A. in medieval English history from UCLA while writing her first two novels, and worked as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy for the next ten years. She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, an avid horsewoman, and an avowed cat person. She has a husband who wears kilts, a ten-year-old son named Cameron, a vintage Bentley motorcar once owned by HRH the Duke of Kent, and hopes soon to live in a castle in Ireland. Besides the Deryni Trilogy, the Camber Trilogy, and several short stories set in the Deryni universe, she has recently published a World War II thriller, Lammas Night, dealing with magic worked to keep Hitler from invading England in the summer of 1940. She is currently at work on the second and third books of the Histories of King Kelson, with at least two more trilogies planned.

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