BOOK ONE

“. . . Last of all only the woman Morgaine survived, skilled in qujalin witchcrafts and bearing still that Sword that casts to death. Much of evil she did in Morija and Baien, rivaling all other evils she had committed . . . but she fled thereafter, taking with her Nhi Vanye i Chya, once of this house, who was ilin to her and therefore bound by his oath.”

Nhi Erij i Myya, in the Book of Ra-morii

“Chya Roh i Chya, lord of Ra-koris . . . followed the witch Morgaine, for his cousin’s sake . . . but Nhi Erij in his writing avows that Chya Roh perished on that journey, and that the Soul that possessed the likeness of Roh thereafter was qujal, and hostile to every Godly man....” the Book of Baien-an