![]() ![]() Arkanar is “a twilit, ignorant country, mired in a bloody quagmire of avarice and conspiracy.” But it is also a land of gentry, spies, shopkeepers, courtiers, craftsmen, bandits, barons, aristocrats-and a few men of intellect and creativity, who are regularly abused by the fiercely anti-intellectual aristocracy. He is also a decent man who increasingly finds the primary dictate of his profession, this “scientifically justified inaction,” in conflict with his moral integrity.ĭon Rumata’s struggle takes place against the backdrop of a thrilling adventure story worthy of Alexandre Dumas. By profession, he is a historian, sent to Arkanar by the future Earth’s Institute of Experimental History to observe the development of its medieval society-but not to interfere. To the people of Arkanar, he appears to be an aristocrat, a rapscallion, and an “empty-headed ladies’ man.” But this is merely a role. ![]() ![]() ISBN 9781612192819ĭon Rumata of Estoria is a man of many parts. Definitely Maybe: A Manuscript Discovered under Strange Circumstances. ![]()
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