"Jennifer Roberson - CotC 4 - The House of Homana" - читать интересную книгу автора (Roberson Jennifer)

Cheysuli holdings as well as much of the race itself; later
the Solindish king, Bellam, had usurped the Lion Throne
and laid waste to Homana in the name of Tynstar, Ihlini
sorcerer, and devotee of the god of the netherworld.
With Carillon in exile and the Cheysuli hunted by
Solindish, Ihlini and Homanan alike, what remained of
the Cheysuli was nearly destroyed completely. The keeps
had been sundered into heaps of shattered stone and
shreds of painted cloth.

My legendary grandsire had, thank the gods, come
home again to take back his stolen throne; his return
ended Solindish and Ihlini domination and Shaine's purge.
Freed of the threat of extirpation, the Cheysuli had also
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come home from secret keeps and built Homanan ones
again. Clankeep itself, spreading across the border be-
tween woodlands and meadowlands, had gone up after
Donal succeeded to the Lion on Carillon's death. And
though the Cheysuli were granted freedom to live where
they chose after decades of outlawry, they still preferred
the closeness of the forests. Clankeep, ringed by un-
mortared walls of undressed, gray-green stone, was the
closest thing to a city the Cheysuli claimed.

As always, I felt the familiar admixture of emotions as
we entered the sprawling keep: sorrowтАФa trace of
trepidationтАФa fleeting sense of angerтАФan undertone of
pride. A skein of raw emotions knotted itself inside my
soul . . . but mostly, more than anything, I knew a tre-
mendous yeanling to belong as Ion belonged.

Clankeep is the heart of the Cheysuli, regardless that
my father rules from Homana-Mujhar. It is Clankeep
that feeds the spirit of each Cheysuli; Clankeep where
the shar tahls keep the histories, traditions and rituals
dear of taint. It is here they guard the remains of the
prophecy of the Firstborn, warding the fragmented hide
with all the power they can summon.



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And it was here at Clankeep that Niall of Homana
longed to spend his days, for all be was prince of the land.