The Deryni Welcome You

The Deryni Chronicles

Entering This World

Welcome

"In Gwynedd lived the Deryni, that mysterious race of wizards with arcane mental powers. Often feared and misunderstood, they came to be persecuted by humans, forced into hiding lest their race be destroyed. They were a race of Healers and champions, priests and teachers, who fought for all men against the intrigues of tyrants.

Herein lie their tumultuous history and the secrets of their power and ritual. Revealed is the hidden knowledge of casting protective circles; of defining the sacred space, of aspersing with holy water and salt, of censing the circle, and finally, of calling the spiritual beings that represent the four elements of the material universe.

Glimpsed here are the secrets of Healers, of their schools and philosophies - from a view of actual training of a Healer, to the tragedy of power gone awry.

But, most of all, herein is a celebration of Camber, Morgan, Kelson, and the other heroes of Katherine Kurtz's great Deryni people."

And with that, from the introduction to

Deryni Magic : A Grimoire, we bid you welcome to the this world, this world created by Katherine Kurtz, to whom a deep debt of gratitude is owed. For if not for whom, this small thank you note to her, would not be possible

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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