The latter is an elderly daughter of the Golden General, a man of destiny blessed with many god-bestowed gifts whose death by magic had the side effect of creating the curse. Then Porifors is besieged by a new force of Roknari from Jokona that includes its Prince, Sordso, and his mother, Princess Joen. To complicate matters further, Illvin and Ista are attracted to each other. Cattilara has managed to force a demon to keep her husband "alive" by transferring to him some of Illvin's vitality, but Ista can see that both men are fading fast. She is saddened to discover that Arhys is actually dead. Ista, despite her attempts to avoid becoming once again a tool of a god, lets her curiosity get the better of her. She has seen Illvin before, though, in a baffling dream sent by the Bastard. Lord Illvin, Arhys's half-brother, is unconscious except for afternoon wakings that match Arhys' naps. Once in the castle, Ista discovers a mystery. She also learns Arhys has a very young and very beautiful wife named Cattilara. Though she is attracted to him, she learns that he is the son of a man she had helped kill (in an ill-fated attempt to raise the curse). The party is overrun and captured by a troop of Roknari raiders from the adjacent principality of Jokona, then rescued by a patrol led by Arhys, lord of the nearby Castle Porifors, a strong leader of men and very handsome to boot. The Bastard, god of disasters and of things out of season, guides Ista's path, despite her strong resistance. To escape from her guardians (who think she is partially mad), she sets out on a religious pilgrimage with the dy Gura brothers (minor characters from the earlier story) for protection Liss, a feisty and clever courier girl and dy Cabon, a plump priest of the Bastard (one of the five gods of the Chalion universe) as her 'spiritual guide'. Following the lifting of the curse on her family and the recent death of her own aged mother, Ista finds herself bored and restless. The novel follows Ista, mother of Iselle, the young ruler of Chalion. īoth Paladin of Souls and its prequel Curse of Chalion (2001) are set in the landlocked medieval kingdom of Chalion, which itself is a fictional equivalent of Castile and León during the time of the Reconquista, or Spanish Reconquest. The series that it is part of, World of the Five Gods, won the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018. It is a sequel to The Curse of Chalion, and takes place approximately three years later. It won the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. Paladin of Souls is a 2003 fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold.
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