Firelord

Firelord is a historical fantasy novel by Parke Godwin, first published in 1980. The novel is a retelling of the King Arthur legend. Firelord sequence Beloved Exile (1984) is the second book in the Firelord trilogy. It and Firelord were later published as one book in Germany (Feuerkönig; Die Erbin von Camelot). Short stories "Uallannach - Invitation to Camelot" was written by Parke Godwin in 1988. It was later published by editor Mike Ashley in Chronicles of the Round Table (1997). Synopsis The novel begins with a mortally wounded Arthur dictating his memoir to a friar at a monastery after the Battle of Camlann. In flashback the reader is led through his formative years, his first meeting with Merlin, his rise to fame in the service of the British High King Ambrosius Aurelianus, his military campaigns against the Saxons, and his eventual downfall.