The Hallowed Hunt

The Hallowed Hunt

infobox Book |
name = The Hallowed Hunt


image_caption = Dustjacket of first hardbound edition
author = Lois McMaster Bujold
cover_artist = David Bowers
country = United States
language = English
series = Chalion universe
genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = Eos (HarperCollins)
release_date = May 24, 2005
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback) & E-Book
pages = 480 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-06-057462-3
preceded_by = Paladin of Souls
followed_by =

"The Hallowed Hunt" is a fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2005.

Plot introduction

This novel is set in the same world as two of Bujold's previous fantasies, "The Curse of Chalion" (2001) and "Paladin of Souls" (2003), but in a country only mentioned there in passing. While the earlier books introduce a setting in which technology and society parallel those of a late Medieval Earth and theology involves five deities, this one introduces intentional accumulation of spirits both animal and human.

Characters & Synopsis

The principal characters are: Ingrey, who received a wolf spirit in childhood and spends most of the story discovering how, why and to what effect; Ijada, who receives a leopard spirit in a bungled rite with consequences that leave her under Ingrey's care; and Wencel, with a centuries-long history of human soul succession that has had the effects on his sanity that can be expected.

Ingrey, the nominal hero, has at the end to be rescued by Ijada and a cast of minor characters. Wencel, the nominal villain, has apocalyptic plans that Ijada and Ingrey together defeat. Ijada and Ingrey marry at the plot's resolution. Such a combination of fantasy, mystery, sword-&-sorcery, and romantic literary genres is typical of Bujold's writing in this series, in her earlier Miles Vorkosigan Saga, and in her current Sharing Knife series.

External links

* [http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060574623 Publisher's page] .
* [http://www.dendarii.com/chalion.html Bujold fansite, including sample chapters of "The Hallowed Hunt"]


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