Tigana - Chapter 9
Tigana - Chapter 9
Part Three - Ember to Ember
Ember Days are the holidays, marked by ritual, at Spring and Autumn equinoxes.
The map: the Highlands of Certando.
Alessan, Baerd, Devin, Sandre and Catriana have been travelling for six months. They kill an informer. They come to an estate, where Devin climbs into a barn and kills the guardsman while he is asleep - it's the first time Devin has killed someone. Things go badly for Alberico over the summer, and he retaliates by raising taxes, and killing and torturing dissidents. Verses lampooning him keep appearing. Brandin sends him a letter requesting more women like Dianora from his lands. Alberico gets more and more angry.
Alessan and his company have a routine where, in disguise, they talk to the townspeople in the taverns in such a way to incite their resistance to Alberico and their desire for freedom, and to make them see the common cause they have with the other duchies and provinces of the Palm to throw off the Tyrants. Alessan and his companions are, of course, behind most of the events which frustrate and bedevil Alberico. In Devin's point of view, we contemplate his relationship with Catriana, which is going nowhere.
They meet up with a musician name Erlein di Senzio, who turns out to be a sorcerer, who is then ritually bound to serve Alessan, to his great resentment and resistance. He tries to escape, but cannot. and the others try to make peace with him.
Named characters in this chapter:
Part Three - Ember to Ember
Ember Days are the holidays, marked by ritual, at Spring and Autumn equinoxes.
The map: the Highlands of Certando.
Alessan, Baerd, Devin, Sandre and Catriana have been travelling for six months. They kill an informer. They come to an estate, where Devin climbs into a barn and kills the guardsman while he is asleep - it's the first time Devin has killed someone. Things go badly for Alberico over the summer, and he retaliates by raising taxes, and killing and torturing dissidents. Verses lampooning him keep appearing. Brandin sends him a letter requesting more women like Dianora from his lands. Alberico gets more and more angry.
Alessan and his company have a routine where, in disguise, they talk to the townspeople in the taverns in such a way to incite their resistance to Alberico and their desire for freedom, and to make them see the common cause they have with the other duchies and provinces of the Palm to throw off the Tyrants. Alessan and his companions are, of course, behind most of the events which frustrate and bedevil Alberico. In Devin's point of view, we contemplate his relationship with Catriana, which is going nowhere.
They meet up with a musician name Erlein di Senzio, who turns out to be a sorcerer, who is then ritually bound to serve Alessan, to his great resentment and resistance. He tries to escape, but cannot. and the others try to make peace with him.
Named characters in this chapter:
- Alberico the Tyrant
- Alessan, Prince of Tigana
- Devin
- Catriana
- Duke Sandre d'Astibar
- Baerd, son of the sculptor Saevar, Dianora's brother
- Taccio and Ingonida, a couple in Ferraut who bought a bed
- Karalius, leader of the First Company of Barbadians (in Alberico's army of mercenaris)
- Grancial, leader of the Second Company of Barbadians (in Alberico's army of mercenaris)
- Siferval, leader of the Third Company of Barbadians (in Alberico's army of mercenaris)
- Tomasso bar Sandre, now a folk hero
- Adreano, a poet executed by Brandin
- Brandin of Ygrath
- Ettocio, a bartender
- Alienor of Castle Borso
- The daughters of Rovigo, Selvena and Alais
- Burnet de Corte, leader of a troupe of musicians
- Erlein di Senzio. musician and wizard