When the King Comes Home

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When the King Comes Home When the King Comes Home

Author: Caroline Stevermer

Category: Other3

Published: 2000

Series: Galazon

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Good King Julian IV of Aravis has been dead for two hundred years, but his kingdom still misses him. The current occupant of the throne is old and witless and has no heir. The true ruler of Aravis is the powerful Prince Bishop, who controls both church and state.When the King comes home, all wishes will be granted.Hail Rosmer wants to be an artist—not an ordinary artist, but a great artist, as great as the fabled Maspero, who painted the famous Archangel altarpiece in the Palace of Aravis and made Good King Julian’s crown.When the King comes home, all dreams will be made real.One day, Hail sees a man catching fish from the river and eating it raw. The man’s clothes are antique in fashion. He looks exactly like King Julian of Aravis. And there begins an adventure that takes Hail and her enigmatic companion from palace to wilderness to battlefield and teaches her, and the rest of Aravis, what happens when the King comes home in sober reality.