Camber of Culdi

Saint Camber. Camber of Culdi. Noble-born Deryni earl. Gifted scholar and legalist. Patron of Deryni Magic.

Defensor Hominum. Camber.
By the reign of Kelson I, he had been a legend for more than two hundred years, in turn respected, venerated, and feared.
But who was the man, Camber of Culdi? What was the man before he became the saint -- and the demon?
Was he, as later legends insist, the sole perpetrator of the atrocities and terrors associated with the Deryni Interregnum? The apotheosis of Evil Incarnate? Or was there another side to this man who became a legend in his own lifetime, saint after his death, and curse word for generations to come?

Just who was Camber of Culdi?......

Camber MacRorie. Seventh Earl of Culdi. Gifted scholar and legalist. Retired civil servant. Sometime practitioner of Deryni magic.In 903, he had not yet earned the title of Saint Camber.

Now, these are the Names of the Eleven Kingdoms,

sung rightly well of old :

Howicce, and Llannedd, and fierce Connait;

mountainous Meara, the Land Beyond the River;
and Keldour, the windswept;
and pastoral Eastmarch;
Tolan, and Torenth, and myth-ridden Mooryn;
and lost Caeriesse, which sank beneath the sea;
and far-reaching Gwynedd, seat of the Haldane Kings.

- Lay of the Lord Llewellyn,
troubadour to the High King of Mooryn

Camber of Culdi. [click for full size image]

First published in 1976.

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