![]() ![]() His ongoing illness as seen in the tale is intentionally similar to Diabetes II. ![]() ![]() His nose was broken in an accident and looked like a squashed mushroom, his curly hair was auburn, later graying to roan, his face was pale and puffy and his body grossly broadened. Due to his knowledge of the curse that lays upon Chalion, he attempted to rule through his chancellor, Martou dy Jironal. An indecisive and ineffective ruler, he was known as Orico the Impotent. His wife was Royina Sara they had no children. Orico dy Chalion was roya of Chalion at the opening of The Curse of Chalion he was the son of Ias and his Brajaran first wife. Both novels take place in the fictional kingdom of Chalion and its neighboring countries, based loosely on the 15th century Iberian Peninsula. ![]() A former courtier and soldier, Cazaril has survived indignity and horrific torture as a slave aboard an enemy galley. Lois McMaster's Bujold's 2001 novel The Curse of Chalion was nominated for the 2002 Hugo, and its sequel, Paladin of Souls, won the Hugo in 2004. Cazaril, musing on Orico's fate, Curse of Chalion The Curse of Chalion On the eve of the Daughter's Day - the grand celebration that will honor the Lady of Spring, one of the five reigning deities - a man broken in body and spirit makes his way slowly down the road to Valenda. Like some doomed little hero holding back a dike of woe, and drowning while the others escaped the tide. And yet, whatever Orico had been, he had held on long enough for the next generation to gain its chance. ![]()
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