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  TAER (Dev.) Land, country.

  THOUGHT-FORM An image or three-dimensional form that has been fashioned out of either etheric or astral substance, usually by the action of a trained mind. If enough trained minds work together to build the same thought-form, it will exist independently for a period of time based on the amount of energy put into it. (Putting energy into such a form is known as ensouling the thought-form.) Manifestations of gods or saints are usually thought-forms picked up by the highly intuitive, such as children, or those with a touch of second sight. It is also possible for many untrained minds acting together to make fuzzy, ill-defined thought-forms that can be picked up the same way, such as UFOs and sightings of the Devil.

  TIERYN (Dev.) An intermediate rank of the noble-born, below a gwerbret but above an ordinary lord (Dev. arcloedd).

  WYRD (trans, of the Dev. tingedd) Fate, destiny; the inescapable problems carried over from a sentient being’s last incarnation.

  YNIS (Dev.) An island.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  KATHARINE KERR spent her childhood in a Great Lakes industrial city and her adolescence in a stereotypical corner of southern California, from whence she fled to the Bay Area just in time to join a number of the various Revolutions then in progress. Upon dropping out of dropping out, she got married and devoted herself to reading as many off-the-wall, obscure, and just plain peculiar books as she could get her hands on. As the logical result of such a life, she has now become a professional storyteller and an amateur skeptic, who regards all True Believers with a jaundiced eye, even those who true-believe in Science.

  Kerr is the author of the Deverry series of historical fantasies; Polar City Blues; Resurrection; and the Dragon Mage series.

  A TIME OF OMENS

  A Bantam Spectra Book/August 1992

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  Copyright © 1992 by Katharine Kerr.

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  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Other Books by this Author

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Prologue

  Part 1 - Past

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Part 2 - Present

  Chapter 1 - The Knave of Flowers

  Chapter 2 - The Prince of Swords

  Part 3 - Future

  Chapter 1 - The Queen of Golds

  Author’s Note

  Glossary

  About the Author

  Copyright

 


 

  Katharine Kerr, A Time of Omens

 


 

 
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