A Time of Justice

A Time of Justice
Katharine Kerr

Book eight of the celebrated Deverry series, an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human and elven history over several hundred years.Book eight of the celebrated Deverry series, an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human and elven history over several hundred years.

KATHARINE KERR

A Time of Justice

Days of Air and Darkness

A Novel of the Westlands Cycle

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Contents

Cover (#u022e587b-27a0-5e44-b000-dd28b390ae20)

Title Page (#u64f15cb5-b3fd-5ddb-afc9-f6ef99996f0f)

Copyright (#ulink_d4ecdb63-7495-5a79-949e-2efe0580d123)

A Note on the Pronunciation of Deverry Words (#u67730dd5-89a0-538f-a005-30153a827cf6)

Maps (#ulink_294f1ff0-fe1b-561a-a3b4-a4df7a1c58e7)

I Prologue – Albus (#ulink_58b5468e-369b-5029-856b-865de9940495)

II Past – Conjunctio (#ulink_5e62f4d5-86f5-51d4-aa7e-741ecd064c03)

III Present, Rising – Fortuna Minor (#litres_trial_promo)

IV Present, Falling – Tristitia (#litres_trial_promo)

V Future – Cauda Draconis (#litres_trial_promo)

VI Epilogue – Populus (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Glossary (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

A Note on the Pronunciation of Deverry Words (#ulink_3f0838b4-dd7e-50e8-93f7-77e48eb7a5aa)

The language spoken in Deverry, which we might well call Neo-Gaulish, is a member of the P-Celtic family. Although closely related to Welsh, Cornish, and Breton, it is by no means identical to any of these actual languages and should never be taken as such.

Vowels are divided by Deverry scribes into two classes: noble and common. Nobles have two pronunciations; commons, one.

A as in father when long; a shorter version of the same sound, as in far, when short.

O as in bone when long; as in pot when short.

W as the oo in spook when long; as in roof when short.

Y as the i in machine when long; as the e in butter when short.

E as in pen.

I as in pin.

U as in pun.

Vowels are generally long in stressed syllables; short in unstressed. Y is the primary exception to this rule. When it appears as the last letter of a word, it is always long whether that syllable is stressed or not.

Diphthongs generally have one consistent pronunciation.