The corrupt Dondo spends time with Teidez, exposing the boy to various vices, and arranges a marriage to Iselle. Orico spends much time in his menagerie, run by the exile Umegat. He accompanies Teidez, Iselle and Betriz to the capital, where he encounters his betrayer Dondo, whose brother Martou is chancellor to the ailing monarch Orico. Their mother Ista also lives with them, but is considered mad. He returns to a regional court where he is hired as tutor to Iselle (second in line for the throne of Chalion after her brother Teidez) and her handmaid Betriz, for whom he develops romantic feelings. The prequel The Hallowed Hunt (2005) takes place in the Weald to the south of Chalion and two to three hundred years earlier.Ĭazaril was formerly a noble in the land of Chalion, but was betrayed and sold into slavery. īoth The Curse of Chalion and its sequel Paladin of Souls (2003) are set in the fictional landlocked medieval kingdom of Chalion. The series that it began, World of the Five Gods, won the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018. In 2002 it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus Fantasy Awards in 2002. The Curse of Chalion is a 2001 fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold.
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