Being a Comprehensive Guide to the Peoples, Places, & Things of the Derynye & the Human Worlds of the XI Kingdoms: Including Historyes of the Major & Minor States & the Occurrences Which Have Been of Most Importance to Them: With Compleat Biographyes of the Prominent Personages & Holy Saints of Gwynedd, Torenth, Meara, Bremagne, Mooryn, Howicce, Llannedd, The Connait, R'Kassi, Orsal & Tralia, Fallon, Byzantyun, The Forcinn Buffer States, & the Other Countryes of This Region from the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ unto Anno Domini 1130: Together with a Detail'd Chronological Historye of the Great Sovereign Kingdom of Gwynedd and All Her Neighbours: Also Including a Liturgical Calendar of the Saints of Gwynedd: With Many Lists of the Patriarchs, Primates, Kings, Princes, Dukes, Earls, Counts, & Other Nobles & Notables of These States: With Much True Opinions & Observations Regarding Same

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KATHERINE KURTZ & ROBERT REGINALD

The Codex is an A-to-Z guide of the Deryni world, covering the major and minor characters, place names, historical events, countries, cities, peoples, saints, and religious elements mentioned in the seventeen published novels and story collections created by Katherine Kurtz in this fictional milieu, from Deryni Rising through King Kelson's Bride.  In addition, the book also includes a hundred-page historical chronology of the Deryni universe, eight pages of original maps, a calendar of saints, preface, and bibliography.

Codex Derynianus was originally published in a limited hardcover edition of 500 copies in April of 1998.  It completely sold out within three months, and copies are in such demand today that fans of Katherine Kurtz have paid as much as $3000 on eBay to acquire the rare tome.  Why do fantasy readers go into a bidding frenzy on those few occasions when a copy  becomes available?  What's so special about the Codex?

Codex Derynianus is not just a guide to the complex fictional universe of award-winning fantasy writer, Katherine Kurtz, but also a stunning work of creative fiction supposedly penned by Brother Theophilus from within the setting of the Eleven Kingdoms.  It includes numerous original stories, vignettes, humorous pieces, serials, poems, and much new material, all interwoven into a complex skein that defies all attempts to unravel it.  Readers can spend hours upon hours trolling through entries on Kurtz's characters, discovering hidden tidbits of new revelations and background material, linked and joined to other entries scattered throughout the book, any and all of which could lead to future story threads in the Deryni universe.  No one has ever written a book like Codex Derynianus—and no one ever will again.

This second edition incorporates much new material on "Healers," the "Bride," and the Chronology of the XI Kingdoms, with more than a few new surprises that will have fantasy fans burning up the internet while trumpeting their new discoveries.  All of the readers who bought the first edition will want the second, and those fantasy fans who missed out the first time around, plus thousands of new devotees, will demand to have copies of their own.   

Underwood Books

September 2005 ¨ 360 pages ¨ 8.5 x 11"
ISBN 1-887424-96-2
Trade Paper¨ $14.95  

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