About the book: 2021 / "Alan Oakdell looked with hopeless hatred from the walls of Kabitela at the man who had become the curse of Taligoi. Francis Ollar, the bastard of an insignificant Maragonese duke, in full battle dress held his horse not far from the city gates, while his heralds, sophisticated in wit and floridity, proposed to Hernani Racan to decide the fate of the capital and the crown in a knightly duel…»