About This Book
Codex Derynianus is an A-to-Z guide of the Deryni world, covering the major and minor characters, place names, historical events, countries, cities, peoples, saints, and religious elements mentioned in the seventeen published novels and story collections created by Katherine Kurts in this fictional milieu, from Deryni Rising through King Kelson's Bride. In addition, the book also includes a hundred-page historical chronology of the Deryni Universe, six pages of original maps, a calendar of saints, preface, and bibliography.
Codex Derynianus is not just a guide to the complex fictional world of award-winning fantasy writer, Katherine Kurtz, but also a stunning work of creative fiction supposedly penned by Brother Theophilus from within the setting of the Eleven Kingdoms. It includes numerous original stories, vignettes, humorous pieces, serials, poems, and much new material, all interwoven into a complex skein that defies all attempts to unravel it. Readers will spend hours trolling through entries on Kurtz's characters, discovering hidden tidbits and new revelations and background material on the Deryni Universe, all linked and joined to other entries scattered throughout the book, any and all of which could lead to future story threads. No one has ever written a book like Codex Derynianus--and no one ever will again!
