Barbacan

All the peasants lined the main road through the small village, cheering wildly for “King Aydrian!” and waving towels at the young man as he paced his mount, the legendary Symphony — the horse his father had ridden to the Barbacan to defeat the demon dactyl — slowly through the town.

Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

As with the ride to the Barbacan to battle the demon incarnate, her duty now was to Honce-the-Bear, was to the society of man.

Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

He had been offered the abbey of St. Honce by Agronguerre after interim abbot Hingas had died on the road to the Barbacan in pilgrimage to the arm of Avelyn.

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

Kalas had not recognized him, and in many ways he looked very different from the man the Duke had accompanied all the way to the Barbacan in pursuit of Elbryan and the heretics those many years before, but he had no doubt that if Jilseponie looked into his eyes but once, she would know the truth.

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

How many criminals, after all — thieves and murderers even — had gone to the plateau at the Barbacan and entered the covenant that had saved them from the rosy plague?

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

The great horse that had carried her and Elbryan home from the battle with the demon dactyl in the far-off Barbacan, the great horse that was so much more than a mere beast, was so much more intelligent.

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

“Though we did join in common cause against the rebels at the Barbacan.”

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

Rumpar said one night, as Aydrian stood transfixed near one table of boisterous men, one of whom was recounting his perilous adventures along the road during his journey to the Barbacan to enter the covenant of Avelyn.

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

“Are you then the same Brother Anders Castinagis who was taken prisoner at the Barbacan and dragged to Palmaris to stand trial beside the one called Nightbird?”

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

They had met many years before, in the grove outside Dundalis where lay the bodies of Elbryan and his uncle Mather, and then again at the Barbacan when Midalis had led the folk of Vanguard and a contingent of Alpinadoran barbarians to the arm of Avelyn.

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001