![]() ![]() That’s the way Ford likes to complicate things.įirst we meet young Hywel Peredur in his twelfth year, helping his family run an inn in the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd. ![]() ![]() ![]() But these new people turn out to be our familiars in disguise. And just when the story seems ready to tell you how that happens, Ford pulls an apparently new group of characters together to solve a murder. The novel can be jarring at first because it takes a while to see how the lives of characters who have no connection gradually come together. Therefore, there are no great cathedrals but plenty of temples, and several prominent people in The Dragon Waiting are avid devotees of the cult of Mithras. Emperor Julian, known as the Apostate for his repudiation of Christianity in our reality, is here Julian the Wise for declaring that all religions were on an equal footing. It’s also a Europe without a powerful Christian church. But Byzantium continues its plots to take over other kingdoms. It stopped at lands controlled by the English, the major power not under its control. But this is a Europe in which the Byzantine empire picked up from the fallen western Roman empire as the dominant power on the continent, reaching deep into France. This story starts with chapters describing three very different characters in different parts of 15th century Europe. ![]()
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