Thaumaturge

The Champion's Tournament at Barrowbell -- the most extravagant Gilmoran social event of the year, attended by the leading nobility and the magi. Minalan came to provoke the Gilmoran chivalry deliberately. Terleman, with no patience for jousters, was challenged at the Champion's Ball by the young pretender knight Sir Larvone the Valiant (the self-styled "Red Lion of Gilmora"), who slapped him with a sleeve. Terleman boxed his ears, accepted the duel on the spot, refused to wait for the list-field, and beat the young knight bloody with personal weapons in front of the entire Gilmoran court.

The political wedding that bound the restored Duchy of Alshar to the Castali crown -- Duke Anguin II to Princess Rardine, his cousin, and the Family operative who had originally orchestrated his parents' assassinations. Held at Falas just after Midsummer with a week of festivities, the wedding produced an effective ruling partnership that ran the Alshari court for the rest of the series. The dowry transferred nearly every Bimin holding in southern Alshar back to House Terine, leaving Castal with only Maidenpool.