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Author: 69BookWorM69

Jul 27th 2011 at 4:50:28 PM

* In [[{{Deryni}} the Eleven Kingdoms]], AnyoneCanDie, so there's lots of these, including:
** In the Camber trilogy, the lone Haldane survivor of the Festillic invasion shows his Healer his memory of the massacre of his parents and siblings, including a six-month old girl. His great-grandson is poisoned at his baptism, [[spoiler: prompting the child's father Cinhil Haldane to slay the culrpit]].
** ''In the King's Service'' has King Donal secretly sire a boy on the Deryni wife of one of his courtiers; Donal plans to imprint the boy with the necessary instructions to trigger his heir's arcane powers after he's gone. Unfortuantely, Deryni are hated, and [[spoiler: two men sodomize the boy and throw him down a well to drown at the suggestion of a priest]]. 
** ''Childe Morgan'' opens with Queen Richeldis visiting the grave of her second son, who rescued his sister from drowning only to catch pneumonia and die aged nine. Planned timetables are speeded up near the end of the book when the youngest Haldane prince (age 4) dies after a riding accident. There are also mentions of the several infant Haldane graves resulting from Donal's first marriage (all stillborn or dead in infancy) and the grave of Vera [=McLain's=] stillborn daughter.