![]() As it turns out, Blaise is also a man with a complex past and a high destiny in his native Gorhaut, Arbonne's traditional enemy. Much of the time, we see Arbonne through the eyes of Blaise, an expatriate mercenary captain in the employ of Bertran, one of the most powerful lords of Arbonne-a man equally adept at war, music, and the art of seduction. ![]() So rather than in medieval Europe, we find ourselves in a world with two moons, where a dualistic pagan religion takes the place of Christianity. ![]() But Kay is less interested in re-creating history than in playing the changes on the epic themes of love, war, and destiny. Tigana was an imaginary kingdom analogous to Italy Arbonne bears a similar resemblance to 12th-century Provence. ![]() Kay's latest is very much in the vein of his well-received Tigana (1990): an exhilarating epic fantasy based loosely on medieval history. ![]()
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