Warlord Chronicles #02 - Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell

Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Fiction
ISBN: 0140232478
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1997-07-02T03:00:00+00:00

Our chief business in those years was to prepare Mordred for the throne. He was already our King for he had been acclaimed as a baby on Caer Cadarn’s summit, but Arthur had decided to repeat the acclamation when Mordred came of age. I think Arthur hoped that some mystical power might invest Mordred with responsibility and wisdom at that second acclamation, for nothing else seemed capable of improving the boy. We tried, the Gods know we tried, but Mordred stayed the same sullen, resentful and loutish youth. Arthur disliked him but stayed wilfully blind to Mordred’s grosser faults, for if Arthur held any religion truly sacred it was his belief in the divinity of kings. The time would come when Arthur would be forced to face the truth of Mordred, but in those years, whenever the subject of Mordred’s suitability was raised in the royal Council, Arthur would always say the same thing. Mordred, he agreed, was an unattractive child, but we had all known such boys grow into proper men and the solemnity of acclamation and the responsibilities of kingship would surely temper the boy. ‘I was hardly a model child myself,’ he liked to say, ‘but I don’t think I’ve turned out ill. Have faith in the boy.’ Besides, he would always add with a smile, Mordred would be guided by a wise and experienced Council. ‘He’ll appoint his own Council,’ one of us would always object, but Arthur waved the matter aside. All, he blithely assured us, would turn out well.

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