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Ursula Vernon's Works

2023-10-22T17:55:03Z

Katherine:

Ursula Vernon is an artist, illustrator, and writer who has written for children and adults. She currently uses the pen name T. Kingfisher when writing for adults or self-publishing. Her website is [https://www.redwombatstudio.com Red Wombat Studio] and has information on her art, writing, and other creations. It also has [https://www.redwombatstudio.com/portfolio/writing/books-for-adults content warnings] for each of her adult books.

==== Comics ====
* [[Digger]]

==== Adult Books (as Ursula Vernon) ====
* [[Black Dogs]] duology

==== Children’s Books (as Ursula Vernon) ====
* [[Nurk]]: The Strange Surprising Adventures Of A (Somewhat) Brave Shrew
* [[Dragonbreath]] series
* [[Hamster Princess]] series
* [[Castle Hangnail]]

==== Young Adult (as T. Kingfisher) ====
* [[Summer in Orcus]]
* [[Minor Mage]]
* [[A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking]]

==== Adult (traditionally published as T. Kingfisher) ====
* [[The Twisted Ones]]
* [[The Hollow Places]]
* [[Nettle & Bone]]
* [[What Moves the Dead]]
* [[A House with Good Bones]]
* [[Thorn Hedge]]

==== Adult (self-published as T. Kingfisher) ====
* [[Nine Goblins]]
* [[Toad Words]] and Other Stories
* [[Seventh Bride]]
* [[Bryony and Roses]]
* [[The Raven and the Reindeer]]
* [[The Halcyon Fairy Book]]
* [[Jackalope Wives]] and Other Stories

==== Books in the World of the White Rat ====
* [[Clockwork Boys]] (Clocktaur War Book 1)
* [[The Wonder Engine]] (Clocktaur War Book 2)
* [[Swordheart]]
* [[Paladin's Grace]] (The Saint of Steel Book 1)
* [[Paladin's Strength]] (The Saint of Steel Book 2)
* [[Paladin's Hope]] (The Saint of Steel Book 3)

=== Links ===
----
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Vernon Ursula Vernon on Wikipedia]
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?83177 Bibliography at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database]
* [https://argyllproductions.com/product-cat/books/t-kingfisher/ Books for sale at Argyll Productions]

Welcome

2023-10-22T17:47:02Z

Katherine: add 2023 Hugo

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[[File:white rat paradoxhorizon.png|thumb|400x400px|The White Rat, fan art by @paradoxhorizon]]

Welcome to the Temple of the White Rat, the fan wiki about Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher, her novels, and the fantasy world in which many of them are set.

== Ursula Vernon ==

[[Ursula Vernon's works]] under her own name include art and writing for children. Her best-known children's works are the [[Hamster Princess]] series and the [[Dragonbreath]] series. The Hugo Award–winning graphic novel [[Digger]] and the [[Black Dogs]] series are written for a somewhat older audience.

== T. Kingfisher ==

Books intended for older audiences, published under the name T. Kingfisher, include multiple series set in the [[World of the White Rat]], as well as more than a dozen standalone books, including [[Nettle & Bone]], winner of the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

== World of the White Rat ==

The [[World of the White Rat]] is a fantasy setting the author describes as "faux early Renaissance,"<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1490764404211826692</ref>, with multiple city-states where several gods are worshipped, including the White Rat. The [[Temple of the White Rat]] is an eminently practical order, whose priests are lawyers, healers, and diplomats, working together to fix whatever problems in society they can address. Books set in the World of the White Rat include the Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy), and the Saint of Steel series.

== Notes ==

<references />

Nettle & Bone

2023-10-22T17:44:52Z

Katherine:

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| bk-date = April 2022
| bk-pub = Tor Books
| bk-genre = Fantasy
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}}

== Summary ==
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.

Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning.

On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra’s family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.

==Awards==

*2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel

[[Category:Books]]

File:Nettle-and-bone.jpg

2023-10-22T17:43:33Z

Katherine: Nettle and Bone cover

== Summary ==
Nettle and Bone cover

Nettle & Bone

2023-10-22T17:27:48Z

Katherine:

{{books
| title =
| file = [e.g. "Example.jpg"]
| bk-date = April 2022
| bk-pub = Tor Books
| bk-genre = Fantasy
| bk-rating =

}}

== Summary ==
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.

Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning.

On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra’s family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.

==Awards==

*2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel

[[Category:Books]]

Welcome

2022-11-27T05:55:37Z

Katherine: Reverted edits by CharleneBalson1 (talk) to last revision by Vasha

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[[File:white rat paradoxhorizon.png|thumb|400x400px|The White Rat, fan art by @paradoxhorizon]]

Welcome to the Temple of the White Rat, the fan wiki about Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher, her novels, and the fantasy world in which many of them are set.

== Ursula Vernon ==

[[Ursula Vernon's works]] under her own name include art and writing for children. Her best-known children's works are the [[Hamster Princess]] series and the [[Dragonbreath]] series. The Hugo Award–winning graphic novel [[Digger]] and the [[Black Dogs]] series are written for a somewhat older audience.

== T. Kingfisher ==

Books intended for older audiences, published under the name T. Kingfisher, include multiple series set in the [[World of the White Rat]], as well as more than a dozen standalone books.

== World of the White Rat ==

The [[World of the White Rat]] is a fantasy setting the author describes as "faux early Renaissance,"<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1490764404211826692</ref>, with multiple city-states where several gods are worshipped, including the White Rat. The [[Temple of the White Rat]] is an eminently practical order, whose priests are lawyers, healers, and diplomats, working together to fix whatever problems in society they can address. Books set in the World of the White Rat include the Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy), and the Saint of Steel series.

== Notes ==

<references />

World of the White Rat

2022-05-03T06:44:11Z

Katherine: punctuation

The [[World of the White Rat]] is a fantasy setting the author describes as "faux early Renaissance”<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1490764404211826692</ref> with multiple nations and city-states where several gods are worshipped, including the White Rat. Books set in the World of the White Rat include the Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy), and the Saint of Steel series.

== Society ==

At the present time, the societies of the World of the White Rat are at a pre-modern (early Renaissance) level of development, but they are generally feminist and queer-friendly: people of all genders hold religious and political office, there is a gender-neutral honorific (Ser), non-binary people are common enough that there is a standard way to identify pronouns (“vestments bore the slender silver stripe indicating the polite form of address”), and same-sex relationships are common and unremarkable. The nations and city-states of the World of the White Rat have governments ranging from moderately competent (Archenhold) to failed (Morstone).

== Religion ==

The people of the World of the White Rat worship a variety of gods, major and minor, who tend to make their presence known in the world in concrete, verifiable ways; there is little to no atheism because the gods demonstrably exist.

The cult of the White Rat is widespread; the Dreaming God, whose religious fight demons, is also widely worshipped, demon-hunting being a necessary societal task. In the Archenhold area, other regionally worshipped gods include the Forge God, the Four-Faced God, the Many-Armed God, and the Lady of Grass. The Saint of Steel’s god-touched paladins specialized in killing those who needed killing, until the god’s death.

Saint Ursa holds a status somewhere between saint and minor deity, with an order of nuns in the north. The Hanged Mother is a minor deity worshipped in Archenhold; the current Archon favors her and allows wide latitude to her followers.

== Technology ==

Technology is generally at an early-modern level, with some convenient modern additions. The printing press exists, and has existed for long enough that books are widely available: there is a library in Archon’s Glory that the public can visit. Anuket City is famous for its artificers, whose automatons rely on steam for their power:
{{quote
|Everywhere he looked, Caliban saw clockwork. Doors did not swing, they ratcheted open. A display window crawled with oiled brass insects. One of the teapots at an outdoor café had climbed up the side of the building and clung there, exhaling steam.
|[[The Wonder Engine]], chapter 29
}}

The “ancients,” who lived an unspecified amount of time before the present day, appear to have had more advanced technology than is available in the present. One common ancient material is an ivory-like substance that is “much harder” than ivory. There is also mention of a fabric of a “finer weave than anything we could make… one corner of it had been singed, and it didn’t burn, it melted like wax.”<ref>Paladin’s Hope, chapter 6</ref>

== Magic ==

Some people, known as wonderworkers, have a magical talent. While some religious orders, including the Hanged Mother’s cult, frown on wonderworkers, they seem to be widely accepted in most places. The talents are usually very specific; one in-world theory holds that “everyone is a wonderworker, it’s simply that most of us are never in the situation to learn what talents we may have.”<ref>Paladin’s Grace, epilogue</ref>

As with technology, the ancients had access to more advanced magic than is available in the present day. One remaining vestige of this advanced magic is wonder engines, which still work in the present day, but are entirely inexplicable by the current understanding of magic and technology.
{{quote
|”What’s a wonder-engine?”<br>“Nobody’s really sure. Some of them do things… miracles. Marvels. Completely useless things. It doesn’t seem to follow any particular pattern.”
|[[Clockwork Boys]], chapter 15
}}

== Geography ==

[[File:Official-map.jpg|1000px|A map of the World of the White Rat, showing inland Charlock in the northwest, and Morstone in the northeast on the sea, north of Arral Territory. The Dowager's City is in the southwest, in a mountain valley through which flows the Falsefall River. The Vagrant Hills ("Probably") are farther east, and Archenhold is north of the Vagrant Hills. Rutger's Howe is westernmost in Archenhold, with Amalcross to its east, and Archon's Glory farther to the east, on the Elkinslough River. Across the Elkinslough and further south is Anuket City, with the East Falsefall River flowing through it from its source in unnamed mountains to its northeast to join the Elkinslough at Anuket City. Moldoban is well south of the Vagrant Hills, on the sea. South of Charlock and north of the Dowager's City are (in order from northeast to southwest) The Court of Smoke, Ghaston, and the Hundred Houses. West of these three locations is a mountain range, which curves around to the southeast until it ends in the mountain valley that is home to the Dowager's City. At the top of the map is a pointer to the northeast, reading "To Baiir."]]

Places mentioned in the books include

* Anuket City, a major city-state
* Archenhold, a nation near Anuket City
* Archon’s Glory, the capital of Archenhold (sometimes written as Archen’s Glory)
* Rutger’s Howe, a small town of 400 people, five days’ walk west of Archon’s Glory
* Amalcross, a town between Rutger’s Howe and Anuket City
* The Dowager’s City, several days’ travel west of Anuket City, in the Falsefall River valley<ref>Clockwork Boys, chapter 6</ref>
* Ghaston (has a monastery of the Many-Armed God)<ref>Clockwork Boys, chapter 6</ref>
* Charlock, a kingdom far north of Archenhold, with a drier climate<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 23</ref>
* The Vagrant Hills are (or at least should be) south of Rutger’s Howe
* Morstone, well northeast of Archenhold, on the sea
* Baiir (formerly known as the Weeping Lands), far to the north<ref>Swordheart, chapter 23</ref> and also distant from Charlock, famous for their weaving<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 23</ref>
* Devilspine Islands (supplies cloves to Archenhold)<ref>Swordheart, chapter 60</ref>
* Moldoban (has a wonder engine, nothing more known)<ref>Paladin’s Hope, chapter 11</ref>

Archenhold and Anuket City are on two tributaries of the same river, and are in competition for river trade. Anuket is the larger city, with the larger tributary.<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 14</ref> They are three days’ walk and a ferry crossing apart<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 25</ref>, considerably less than one thousand miles distant from each other.<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 9</ref>

== Timeline ==

The books are set in the mid-1300s; Swordheart begins in the year 1346<ref>Swordheart, chapter 3</ref>. The dates below are calculated relative to 1346.

; ~550 (1346−800): cult of the White Rat emerges amid plague, in cities of the old empire, in the west<ref>Swordheart, chapter 26</ref>
; ~900 (1346−450): Sarkis enters the sword<ref>Swordheart, chapter 23</ref>
; 1341: end of the Clocktaur War<ref>Swordheart, chapter 16</ref>
; 1346: Halla first draws the Sword<ref>Swordheart, chapter 3</ref>
; 1349: death of the Saint of Steel<ref>https://twitter.com/mlkharrington/status/1486856862754656256</ref>
; 1352: Stephen meets Grace<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>
; 1353: Istvhan travels north with Galen<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>
; 1354: Galen meets Piper<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>

== Notes ==

<references />

World of the White Rat

2022-05-03T06:42:51Z

Katherine: Added the new map (!) and updated some descriptions accordingly

The [[World of the White Rat]] is a fantasy setting the author describes as "faux early Renaissance”<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1490764404211826692</ref> with multiple nations and city-states where several gods are worshipped, including the White Rat. Books set in the World of the White Rat include the Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy), and the Saint of Steel series.

== Society ==

At the present time, the societies of the World of the White Rat are at a pre-modern (early Renaissance) level of development, but they are generally feminist and queer-friendly: people of all genders hold religious and political office, there is a gender-neutral honorific (Ser), non-binary people are common enough that there is a standard way to identify pronouns (“vestments bore the slender silver stripe indicating the polite form of address”), and same-sex relationships are common and unremarkable. The nations and city-states of the World of the White Rat have governments ranging from moderately competent (Archenhold) to failed (Morstone).

== Religion ==

The people of the World of the White Rat worship a variety of gods, major and minor, who tend to make their presence known in the world in concrete, verifiable ways; there is little to no atheism because the gods demonstrably exist.

The cult of the White Rat is widespread; the Dreaming God, whose religious fight demons, is also widely worshipped, demon-hunting being a necessary societal task. In the Archenhold area, other regionally worshipped gods include the Forge God, the Four-Faced God, the Many-Armed God, and the Lady of Grass. The Saint of Steel’s god-touched paladins specialized in killing those who needed killing, until the god’s death.

Saint Ursa holds a status somewhere between saint and minor deity, with an order of nuns in the north. The Hanged Mother is a minor deity worshipped in Archenhold; the current Archon favors her and allows wide latitude to her followers.

== Technology ==

Technology is generally at an early-modern level, with some convenient modern additions. The printing press exists, and has existed for long enough that books are widely available: there is a library in Archon’s Glory that the public can visit. Anuket City is famous for its artificers, whose automatons rely on steam for their power:
{{quote
|Everywhere he looked, Caliban saw clockwork. Doors did not swing, they ratcheted open. A display window crawled with oiled brass insects. One of the teapots at an outdoor café had climbed up the side of the building and clung there, exhaling steam.
|[[The Wonder Engine]], chapter 29
}}

The “ancients,” who lived an unspecified amount of time before the present day, appear to have had more advanced technology than is available in the present. One common ancient material is an ivory-like substance that is “much harder” than ivory. There is also mention of a fabric of a “finer weave than anything we could make… one corner of it had been singed, and it didn’t burn, it melted like wax.”<ref>Paladin’s Hope, chapter 6</ref>

== Magic ==

Some people, known as wonderworkers, have a magical talent. While some religious orders, including the Hanged Mother’s cult, frown on wonderworkers, they seem to be widely accepted in most places. The talents are usually very specific; one in-world theory holds that “everyone is a wonderworker, it’s simply that most of us are never in the situation to learn what talents we may have.”<ref>Paladin’s Grace, epilogue</ref>

As with technology, the ancients had access to more advanced magic than is available in the present day. One remaining vestige of this advanced magic is wonder engines, which still work in the present day, but are entirely inexplicable by the current understanding of magic and technology.
{{quote
|”What’s a wonder-engine?”<br>“Nobody’s really sure. Some of them do things… miracles. Marvels. Completely useless things. It doesn’t seem to follow any particular pattern.”
|[[Clockwork Boys]], chapter 15
}}

== Geography ==

[[File:Official-map.jpg|1000px|A map of the World of the White Rat, showing inland Charlock in the northwest, and Morstone in the northeast on the sea, north of Arral Territory. The Dowager's City is in the southwest, in a mountain valley through which flows the Falsefall River. The Vagrant Hills ("Probably") are farther east, and Archenhold is north of the Vagrant Hills. Rutger's Howe is westernmost in Archenhold, with Amalcross to its east, and Archon's Glory farther to the east, on the Elkinslough River. Across the Elkinslough and further south is Anuket City, with the East Falsefall River flowing through it from its source in unnamed mountains to its northeast to join the Elkinslough at Anuket City. Moldoban is well south of the Vagrant Hills, on the sea. South of Charlock and north of the Dowager's City are (in order from northeast to southwest) The Court of Smoke, Ghaston, and the Hundred Houses. West of these three locations is a mountain range, which curves around to the southeast until it ends in the mountain valley that is home to the Dowager's City. At the top of the map is a pointer to the northeast, reading "To Baiir."]]

Places mentioned in the books include

* Anuket City, a major city-state
* Archenhold, a nation near Anuket City
* Archon’s Glory, the capital of Archenhold (sometimes written as Archen’s Glory)
* Rutger’s Howe, a small town of 400 people, five days’ walk west of Archon’s Glory
* Amalcross, a town between Rutger’s Howe and Anuket City
* The Dowager’s City, several days’ travel west of Anuket City, in the Falsefall River valley<ref>Clockwork Boys, chapter 6</ref>
* Ghaston (has a monastery of the Many-Armed God)<ref>Clockwork Boys, chapter 6</ref>
* Charlock, a kingdom far north of Archenhold, with a drier climate<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 23</ref>
* The Vagrant Hills are (or at least should be) south of Rutger’s Howe
* Morstone, well northeast of Archenhold, on the sea
* Baiir (formerly known as the Weeping Lands), far to the north<ref>Swordheart, chapter 23</ref> and also distant from Charlock, famous for their weaving<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 23</ref>
* Devilspine Islands (supplies cloves to Archenhold)<ref>Swordheart, chapter 60</ref>
* Moldoban (has a wonder engine, nothing more known)<ref>Paladin’s Hope, chapter 11</ref>

Archenhold and Anuket City are on two tributaries of the same river, and are in competition for river trade. Anuket is the larger city, with the larger tributary.<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 14</ref> They are three days’ walk and a ferry crossing apart<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 25</ref>, considerably less than one thousand miles distant from each other.<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 9</ref>

== Timeline ==

The books are set in the mid-1300s; Swordheart begins in the year 1346<ref>Swordheart, chapter 3</ref>; the dates below are calculated relative to 1346.

; ~550 (1346−800): cult of the White Rat emerges amid plague, in cities of the old empire, in the west<ref>Swordheart, chapter 26</ref>
; ~900 (1346−450): Sarkis enters the sword<ref>Swordheart, chapter 23</ref>
; 1341: end of the Clocktaur War<ref>Swordheart, chapter 16</ref>
; 1346: Halla first draws the Sword<ref>Swordheart, chapter 3</ref>
; 1349: death of the Saint of Steel<ref>https://twitter.com/mlkharrington/status/1486856862754656256</ref>
; 1352: Stephen meets Grace<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>
; 1353: Istvhan travels north with Galen<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>
; 1354: Galen meets Piper<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>

== Notes ==

<references />

File:Official-map.jpg

2022-05-03T06:28:58Z

Katherine: The map of the World of the White Rat, by the author, used by permission. https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1521265788421820417

== Summary ==
The map of the World of the White Rat, by the author, used by permission. https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1521265788421820417

Welcome

2022-05-02T01:22:58Z

Katherine: add fan art

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[[File:white rat paradoxhorizon.png|thumb|400x400px|The White Rat, fan art by @paradoxhorizon]]

Welcome to the Temple of the White Rat, the fan wiki about Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher, her novels, and the fantasy world in which many of them are set.

== Ursula Vernon ==

[[Ursula Vernon's works]] under her own name include art and writing for children. Her best-known children's works are the Hugo Award–winning graphic novel [[Digger]], the [[Hamster Princess]] series, and the [[Dragonbreath]] series. The [[Black Dogs]] series is written for a somewhat older audience.

== T. Kingfisher ==

Books intended for older audiences, published under the name T. Kingfisher, include multiple series set in the [[World of the White Rat]], as well as more than a dozen standalone books.

== World of the White Rat ==

The [[World of the White Rat]] is a fantasy setting the author describes as "faux early Renaissance,"<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1490764404211826692</ref>, with multiple city-states where several gods are worshipped, including the White Rat. The [[Temple of the White Rat]] is an eminently practical order, whose priests are lawyers, healers, and diplomats, working together to fix whatever problems in society they can address. Books set in the World of the White Rat include the Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy), and the Saint of Steel series.

== Notes ==

<references />

File:White rat paradoxhorizon.png

2022-05-02T01:17:39Z

Katherine: A painting by M.C. Marcellin (@paradoxhorizon) of the White Rat, haloed by the sun, holding a balance in his right paw and holding up the other paw in benediction. https://twitter.com/paradoxhorizon/status/1325977500384555008 Copyright M.C. Marcellin, used by permission.

== Summary ==
A painting by M.C. Marcellin (@paradoxhorizon) of the White Rat, haloed by the sun, holding a balance in his right paw and holding up the other paw in benediction. https://twitter.com/paradoxhorizon/status/1325977500384555008 Copyright M.C. Marcellin, used by permission.

World of the White Rat

2022-04-30T04:55:51Z

Katherine: Created page with "The World of the White Rat is a fantasy setting the author describes as "faux early Renaissance”<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1490764404211826692</ref> with multiple nations and city-states where several gods are worshipped, including the White Rat. Books set in the World of the White Rat include the Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy), and the Saint of Steel series. == Society == At the present time, the societies of the..."

The [[World of the White Rat]] is a fantasy setting the author describes as "faux early Renaissance”<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1490764404211826692</ref> with multiple nations and city-states where several gods are worshipped, including the White Rat. Books set in the World of the White Rat include the Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy), and the Saint of Steel series.

== Society ==

At the present time, the societies of the World of the White Rat are at a pre-modern (early Renaissance) level of development, but they are generally feminist and queer-friendly: people of all genders hold religious and political office, there is a gender-neutral honorific (Ser), non-binary people are common enough that there is a standard way to identify pronouns (“vestments bore the slender silver stripe indicating the polite form of address”), and same-sex relationships are common and unremarkable. The nations and city-states of the World of the White Rat have governments ranging from moderately competent (Archenhold) to failed (Morstone).

== Religion ==

The people of the World of the White Rat worship a variety of gods, major and minor, who tend to make their presence known in the world in concrete, verifiable ways; there is little to no atheism because the gods demonstrably exist.

The cult of the White Rat is widespread; the Dreaming God, whose religious fight demons, is also widely worshipped, demon-hunting being a necessary societal task. In the Archenhold area, other regionally worshipped gods include the Forge God, the Four-Faced God, the Many-Armed God, and the Lady of Grass. The Saint of Steel’s god-touched paladins specialized in killing those who needed killing, until the god’s death.

Saint Ursa holds a status somewhere between saint and minor deity, with an order of nuns in the north. The Hanged Mother is a minor deity worshipped in Archenhold; the current Archon favors her and allows wide latitude to her followers.

== Technology ==

Technology is generally at an early-modern level, with some convenient modern additions. The printing press exists, and has existed for long enough that books are widely available: there is a library in Archon’s Glory that the public can visit. Anuket City is famous for its artificers, whose automatons rely on steam for their power:
{{quote
|Everywhere he looked, Caliban saw clockwork. Doors did not swing, they ratcheted open. A display window crawled with oiled brass insects. One of the teapots at an outdoor café had climbed up the side of the building and clung there, exhaling steam.
|[[The Wonder Engine]], chapter 29
}}

The “ancients,” who lived an unspecified amount of time before the present day, appear to have had more advanced technology than is available in the present. One common ancient material is an ivory-like substance that is “much harder” than ivory. There is also mention of a fabric of a “finer weave than anything we could make… one corner of it had been singed, and it didn’t burn, it melted like wax.”<ref>Paladin’s Hope, chapter 6</ref>

== Magic ==

Some people, known as wonderworkers, have a magical talent. While some religious orders, including the Hanged Mother’s cult, frown on wonderworkers, they seem to be widely accepted in most places. The talents are usually very specific; one in-world theory holds that “everyone is a wonderworker, it’s simply that most of us are never in the situation to learn what talents we may have.”<ref>Paladin’s Grace, epilogue</ref>

As with technology, the ancients had access to more advanced magic than is available in the present day. One remaining vestige of this advanced magic is wonder engines, which still work in the present day, but are entirely inexplicable by the current understanding of magic and technology.
{{quote
|”What’s a wonder-engine?”<br>“Nobody’s really sure. Some of them do things… miracles. Marvels. Completely useless things. It doesn’t seem to follow any particular pattern.”
|[[Clockwork Boys]], chapter 15
}}

== Geography ==

No map of the setting has been published. Places mentioned in the books include

* Anuket City, a major city-state
* Archenhold, a nation near Anuket City
* Archon’s Glory, the capital of Archenhold (sometimes written as Archen’s Glory)
* Rutger’s Howe, a small town of 400 people, five days’ walk southwest of Archon’s Glory
* Amalcross, a town between Rutger’s Howe and Anuket City
* The Dowager’s city, a few days’ travel from Anuket City, in the Falsefall River valley<ref>Clockwork Boys, chapter 6</ref>
* Ghaston (has a monastery of the Many-Armed God)<ref>Clockwork Boys, chapter 6</ref>
* Charlock, a kingdom distant from Archenhold, with a drier climate<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 23</ref>
* Vagrant Hills are (or at least should be) south of Rutger’s Howe
* Morstone, north of Archenhold, on the sea
* Baiir (formerly known as the Weeping Lands), far to the north of Archenhold<ref>Swordheart, chapter 23</ref> and also distant from Charlock, famous for their weaving<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 23</ref>
* Devilspine Islands (supplies cloves to Archenhold)<ref>Swordheart, chapter 60</ref>
* Moldoban (has a wonder engine, nothing more known)<ref>Paladin’s Hope, chapter 11</ref>

Archenhold and Anuket City are on two tributaries of the same river, and are in competition for river trade. Anuket is the larger city, with the larger tributary.<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 14</ref> They are three days’ walk and a ferry crossing apart<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 25</ref>, considerably less than one thousand miles distant from each other.<ref>Paladin’s Grace, chapter 9</ref>

== Timeline ==

The books are set in the mid-1300s; Swordheart begins in the year 1346<ref>Swordheart, chapter 3</ref>; the dates below are calculated relative to 1346.

; ~550 (1346−800): cult of the White Rat emerges amid plague, in cities of the old empire, in the west<ref>Swordheart, chapter 26</ref>
; ~900 (1346−450): Sarkis enters the sword<ref>Swordheart, chapter 23</ref>
; 1341: end of the Clocktaur War<ref>Swordheart, chapter 16</ref>
; 1346: Halla first draws the Sword<ref>Swordheart, chapter 3</ref>
; 1349: death of the Saint of Steel<ref>https://twitter.com/mlkharrington/status/1486856862754656256</ref>
; 1352: Stephen meets Grace<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>
; 1353: Istvhan travels north with Galen<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>
; 1354: Galen meets Piper<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1486819132385501191/photo/1</ref>

== Notes ==

<references />

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Welcome

2022-02-16T04:22:57Z

Katherine: first draft

__NOTOC__

Welcome to the Temple of the White Rat, the fan wiki about Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher, her novels, and the fantasy world in which many of them are set.

== Ursula Vernon ==

[[Ursula Vernon's works]] under her own name include art and writing for children. Her best-known children's works are the Hugo Award–winning graphic novel [[Digger]], the [[Hamster Princess]] series, and the [[Dragonbreath]] series. The [[Black Dogs]] series is written for a somewhat older audience.

== T. Kingfisher ==

Books intended for older audiences, published under the name T. Kingfisher, include multiple series set in the [[World of the White Rat]], as well as more than a dozen standalone books.

== World of the White Rat ==

The [[World of the White Rat]] is a fantasy setting the author describes as "faux early Renaissance,"<ref>https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1490764404211826692</ref>, with multiple city-states where several gods are worshipped, including the White Rat. The [[Temple of the White Rat]] is an eminently practical order, whose priests are lawyers, healers, and diplomats, working together to fix whatever problems in society they can address. Books set in the World of the White Rat include the Clocktaur War duology, Swordheart (eventually to become a trilogy), and the Saint of Steel series.

== Notes ==

<references />

White Rat

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#REDIRECT [[Temple of the White Rat]]

Ursula Vernon's works

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#REDIRECT [[Ursula Vernon's Works]]

User talk:Silvercat

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Katherine:

== Next ==

* create pages for the anthologies
* style [[Template:Books]] and [[Template:WR-Books]]
** I did an initial pass on this but feel free to redo it however you want! [[User:Katherine|Katherine]] ([[User talk:Katherine|talk]]) 05:14, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
* fix [[Template:Infobox]]
* start [[Swordheart]] info collection

Temple of the White Rat

2022-02-14T02:14:03Z

Katherine: first draft

{{quote|The Rat's priests fixed things that could be fixed, and when things were broken past all mending, they helped people pick up the pieces.|Paladin's Grace, chapter 2}}

The '''White Rat''' is a deity worshipped in the south of the [[World of the White Rat]]. The '''Temple of the White Rat''' is described as "that rarest of religious orders, one that simply found problems and solved them and tried to make life better for everyone involved."<ref name="strength">Paladin's Strength, chapter 2</ref> The Rat is served by priests, healers, lawyers, and diplomats, but does not call His own paladins.<ref name="grace2">Paladin's Grace, chapter 2</ref>

== History ==

The cult of the White Rat first emerged in the west, some eight hundred years before the Clocktaur War, when a plague was decimating the cities of the old western empire. Because rats carried the plague, a cult sprang up to attempt to appease the rat spirit. The faith evolved and reformed over the course of the centuries.<ref name="sword26">Swordheart, chapter 26</ref>

== Theology ==

{{quote
|Rats are smart and they travel with humans, but they are neither our servants nor our prey. They eat the food that we eat, they live within our homes. Who better to understand us?... We know that the Rat exists. We know He is kindly inclined toward humankind. If we forget His name, He will creep back into the walls of the world, but He will not cease to exist. A day will come when humans remember His name again. So it is, and so it has been, and so it will be.
|[[Zale]], Swordheart, chapter 26
}}

== Activities ==

The Temple of the White Rat provides services to the poor, including food, housing, and legal services, and it engages in diplomacy and other general problem solving. The services it is able to provide depend on the area. In Archenhold, for example, which is relatively well governed, the Temple provides legal representation for people accused of crimes, it makes healers available to those who need them, it supervises a system of law clerks who document arrests,<ref name="hope2">Paladin's Hope, chapter 2</ref> and it is clandestinely involved in occasional targeted assassinations.<ref name="strength28">Paladin's Strength, chapter 28</ref> In Morstone, a less well-run city, the Temple's resources are stretched thin, and the city looks on its activities with suspicion. To avoid being expelled from the city entirely, it is only able to provide limited food, housing, and healing.<ref name="strength28" />

== Architecture ==

Temples of the White Rat are similar to each other in design, although adapted to the architecture of the area they are in. They include soup kitchens, healer's quarters, and buildings to house lawyers and administrative staff. The Anuket City temple uses mechanical devices to help organize its activity, while the temple in Charlock includes a "maze of colorful tents... moved in various positions depending on the weather and favorable astrology."<ref name="strength28" /> The Archon's Glory temple is built of pale sandstone, with sharply slanted roofs and arched doorways surrounding a main courtyard.<ref name="sword21">Swordheart, chapter 21</ref>

== Notes ==

<references />

Saint of Steel

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Katherine:

The '''Saint of Steel''' was a deity worshipped in the [[World of the White Rat]]. He had a great temple in [[Anuket City]],<ref name="hope-epilogue">Paladin's Hope, Epilogue</ref> with three other temples, including one in [[Archon's Glory]].<ref name="grace1">Paladin's Grace, chapter 1</ref> His insignia is described as "the stylized sword, the gold flames, the hand holding the blade and pouring golden blood down the length."<ref name="grace3">Paladin's Grace, chapter 3</ref>

The Saint of Steel called paladins, who were god-touched, to fight on His behalf. They were berserkers, who could be overcome by what they called the "battle tide," but He directed their activity such that they were always confident they were fighting on the right side. Their activities included removing a cult<ref name=hope15">Paladin's Hope, chapter 15</ref> and killing necromancers.<ref name="strength28">Paladin's Strength, chapter 28</ref>

Some eight years after the Clocktaur War,<ref>https://twitter.com/mlkharrington/status/1486856862754656256?s=20&t=8fhw5DB1Oe_ua1FCb9pzfA</ref> the Saint of Steel died. It was a little after noon, on the longest day of the year.<ref>Paladin's Grace, chapter 1</ref> The effect on the Saint's god-touched paladins and priests was immediate. The high priest of the temple in Anuket City burned the temple to the ground, "screaming about a pyre fit for a god."<ref name="hope14">Paladin's Hope, chapter 14</ref> Other priests either killed themselves or died outright, or fell into a coma from which they did not wake. The paladins fell into an uncontrolled battle rage, killed everyone around them until they could no longer fight, then fell into comas like the priests.<ref name="hope14" /> Only seven of the paladins in Archenhold survived, of many more who were taken in and cared for in the aftermath by the Temple of the White Rat.<ref name="grace1" />

== Notes ==

<references />

Saint of Steel

2022-02-14T01:25:54Z

Katherine: added background on paladins' work during the god's lifetime

The '''Saint of Steel''' was a deity worshipped in the [[World of the White Rat]]. He had a great temple in [[Anuket City]],<ref name="hope-epilogue">Paladin's Hope, Epilogue</ref> with three other temples, including one in [[Archon's Glory]].<ref name="grace1">Paladin's Grace, chapter 1</ref> His insignia is described as "the stylized sword, the gold flames, the hand holding the blade and pouring golden blood down the length."<ref name="grace3">Paladin's Grace, chapter 3</ref>

The Saint of Steel called paladins, who were god-touched, to fight on His behalf. They were berserkers, who could be overcome by what they called the "battle tide," but He directed their activity such that they were always confident they were fighting on the right side. Their activities included removing a cult<ref name=hope15">Paladin's Hope, chapter 15</ref> and killing necromancers.<ref name="strength28">Paladin's Strength, chapter 28</ref>

Some eight years after the Clocktaur War,<ref>https://twitter.com/mlkharrington/status/1486856862754656256?s=20&t=8fhw5DB1Oe_ua1FCb9pzfA</ref> the Saint of Steel died. It was a little after noon, on the longest day of the year.<ref>Paladin's Grace, chapter 1</ref> The effect on the Saint's god-touched paladins and priests was immediate. The high priest of the temple in Anuket City burned the temple to the ground, "screaming about a pyre fit for a god."<ref name="hope14">Paladin's Hope, chapter 14</ref> Other priests either killed themselves or died outright, or fell into a coma from which they did not wake. The paladins, who during the god's lifetime had been warriors controlled by the god's will, fell into an uncontrolled battle rage, killed everyone around them until they could no longer fight, then fell into comas like the priests.<ref name="hope14" /> Only seven of the paladins in Archenhold survived, of many more who were taken in and cared for in the aftermath by the Temple of the White Rat.<ref name="grace1" />

== Notes ==

<references />

Saint of Steel

2022-02-13T23:59:56Z

Katherine: flesh out with references

The '''Saint of Steel''' was a deity worshipped in the [[World of the White Rat]]. He had a great temple in [[Anuket City]],<ref name="hope-epilogue">Paladin's Hope, Epilogue</ref> with three other temples, including one in [[Archon's Glory]].<ref name="grace1">Paladin's Grace, chapter 1</ref> His insignia is described as "the stylized sword, the gold flames, the hand holding the blade and pouring golden blood down the length."<ref name="grace3">Paladin's Grace, chapter 3</ref>

Some eight years after the Clocktaur War,<ref>https://twitter.com/mlkharrington/status/1486856862754656256?s=20&t=8fhw5DB1Oe_ua1FCb9pzfA</ref> the Saint of Steel died. It was a little after noon, on the longest day of the year.<ref>Paladin's Grace, chapter 1</ref> The effect on the Saint's god-touched paladins and priests was immediate. The high priest of the temple in Anuket City burned the temple to the ground, "screaming about a pyre fit for a god."<ref name="hope14">Paladin's Hope, chapter 14</ref> Other priests either killed themselves or died outright, or fell into a coma from which they did not wake. The paladins, who during the god's lifetime had been warriors controlled by the god's will, fell into an uncontrolled battle rage, killed everyone around them until they could no longer fight, then fell into comas like the priests.<ref name="hope14" /> Only seven of the paladins in Archenhold survived, of many more who were taken in and cared for in the aftermath by the Temple of the White Rat.<ref name="grace1" />

== Notes ==

<references />

Saint of Steel

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Katherine: placeholder

The Saint of Steel was a deity worshipped in the [[World of the White Rat]]. His main temple was in [[Anuket City]], with three other temples, including one in [[Archon's Glory]]. His insignia is described as "the stylized sword, the gold flames, the hand holding the blade and pouring golden blood down the length."

Template:Books

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Katherine: add TemplateStyles

<includeonly>
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<table class="books">
<tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size:140%;">'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">[[File:{{{file|}}}{{!}}250px{{!}}center]]</td></tr>
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<noinclude>

This template is designed for books outside the setting of the Temple of the White Rat

To use, copy the following code and fill in the appropriate fields.

<pre><nowiki>
{{books
| title =
| file = [e.g. "Example.jpg"]
| bk-date =
| bk-pub =
| bk-genre =
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}}
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<p>The table class still needs to be styled</p>

<templatedata>
{
"params": {
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"bk-pub": {},
"bk-genre": {},
"bk-rating": {}
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Template:Books/styles.css

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Katherine: Created page with ".books { float: right; margin: 0 0 0 3em; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em; min-width: 25%; }"

.books {
float: right;
margin: 0 0 0 3em;
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 1em;
min-width: 25%;
}

Template:WR-Books

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Katherine: add TemplateStyles

<includeonly>
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<table class="wr-books">
<tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size:140%;">'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">[[File:{{{file|}}}{{!}}250px{{!}}center]]</td></tr>
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<td class="wrbks-next">{{{wrbk-next}}}</td>
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</table></includeonly>

<noinclude>This template is designed for books within the World of the White Rat

To use, copy the following code and fill in the appropriate fields.

<pre><nowiki>
{{WR-Books
| title =
| file = [e.g. "Example.jpg"]
| wrbk-date =
| wrbk-rating =
| wrbk-link =
| wrbk-prev =
| wrbk-next =

}}
</nowiki></pre>

: Title = taken from the page name
: wrbk-date = date of publication
: wrbk-rating = rating, available at Argyll
: wrbk-link = links to buy it
: wrbk-prev = previous in the series
: wrbk-next = next in the series

<templatedata>
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"params": {
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}
</templatedata></noinclude>

Template:WR-Books/styles.css

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Katherine: Created page with ".wr-books { float: right; margin: 0 0 0 3em; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em; min-width: 25%; }"

.wr-books {
float: right;
margin: 0 0 0 3em;
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 1em;
min-width: 25%;
}

Template:Quote

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class="quotation-mark-right">”</span><div class="attribution">—{{{2}}}</div></blockquote></includeonly><noinclude>[[Category: Templates]]

A quote formatter. Usage is

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to get:
{{quote|We have to save the newts!|Ethan to Clara and Istvhan, Paladin's Strength}}

Splitting quotes into multiple lines makes the source easier to read:

<pre>
{{quote
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Template:Quote/styles.css

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Katherine: initial styles

blockquote {
border-left: inherit;
padding: inherit;
}

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float: left;
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padding: 10px 10px;
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font-style: italic;
font-size: 110%;
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blockquote .attribution {
margin-left: 1.5em;
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Template:Quote/styles.css

2022-02-11T23:00:56Z

Katherine:

blockquote {
border-left: none;
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blockquote .quotation-mark-left {
float: left;
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Template:Quote

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Katherine:

<includeonly>
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<blockquote style="{{{style|}}}; {{#if:{{{side|}}}| float: {{{side}}}; width: {{{width}}}; }}"><span
class="quotation-mark-left">“</span><span class="quote">{{{1}}}</span><span
class="quotation-mark-right">”</span><div class="attribution">—{{{2}}}</div></blockquote></includeonly><noinclude>[[Category: Templates]]

A quote formatter. Usage is

<pre>
{{quote|We have to save the newts!|Ethan to Clara and Istvhan, Paladin's Strength}}
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to get:

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Template:Quote

2022-02-11T22:53:41Z

Katherine:

<includeonly>
<templatestyles src="Template:Quote/styles.css" />
<blockquote style="{{{style|}}}; {{#if:{{{side|}}}| float: {{{side}}}; width: {{{width}}}; }}"><span
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class="quotation-mark-right">”</span><div class="attribution">—{{{2}}}</div></blockquote></includeonly><noinclude>[[Category: Templates]]

A quote formatter. Usage is

<pre>
{{quote|We have to save the newts!|Ethan to Clara and Istvhan, Paladin's Strength}}
</pre>

to get:

{{quote|We have to save the newts!|Ethan to Clara and Istvhan, Paladin's Strength}}

Splitting quotes into multiple lines makes the source easier to read:

<pre>
{{quote
|We have to save the newts!
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Template:Quote/styles.css

2022-02-11T22:52:13Z

Katherine:

blockquote .quotation-mark-left {
float: left;
width: 20px;
vertical-align: top;
border: none;
color: #B2B7F2;
font-size: 40px;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
font-weight: bold;
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padding: 10px 10px;
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vertical-align: bottom;
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padding: 10px 10px;
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font-style: italic;
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}

blockquote .attribution {
margin-left: 1.5em;
}

Template:Quote

2022-02-11T22:44:56Z

Katherine:

<includeonly><blockquote style="{{{style|}}}; {{#if:{{{side|}}}| float: {{{side}}}; width: {{{width}}}; }}"><span
class="quotation-mark-left">“</span><em style="font-size: 110%;">{{{1}}}</em><span
class="quotation-mark-right">”</span><div style="margin-left:1.5em;">—{{{2}}}</div></blockquote></includeonly><noinclude>[[Category: Templates]]

A quote formatter. Usage is

<pre>
{{quote|We have to save the newts!|Ethan to Clara and Istvhan, Paladin's Strength}}
</pre>

to get:

{{quote|We have to save the newts!|Ethan to Clara and Istvhan, Paladin's Strength}}

Splitting quotes into multiple lines makes the source easier to read:

<pre>
{{quote
|We have to save the newts!
|Ethan to Clara and Istvhan, Paladin's Strength
}}
</pre>

Template:Quote/styles.css

2022-02-11T22:43:59Z

Katherine: Created page with "blockquote .quotation-mark-left { float: left; width: 20px; vertical-align: top; border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 40px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: .6em; text-align: left; padding: 10px 10px; } blockquote .quotation-mark-right { vertical-align: bottom; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 40px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: .4em; padding: 1..."

Paladin's Grace

2022-02-08T17:19:52Z

Katherine: /* Characters */

{{WR-Books
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| file = Paladins-grace.jpg
| wrbk-date = February 2020
| wrbk-rating = PG-13
| wrbk-link =
| wrbk-prev =
| wrbk-next = [[Paladin's Strength]]

}}

{{quote
|Gods above and below and somewhere in the middle, why did he have to smell like gingerbread?|Grace
}}

== Cover Synopsis ==
{{quote
|Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind…
|Blurb from Argyll Publishing
}}

== Characters ==

; [[Stephen]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Grace]]: A master perfumer
; [[Marguerite]]: Grace's friend and landlord
; [[Istvhan]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Beartongue]]: Bishop of the [[Temple of the White Rat]] in Archenhold
; [[The Crown Prince of Charlock]]: A visitor to [[Archon's Glory]]
; [[Ethan DuValier]]: An emissary of the Crown Prince
; [[Shane]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Zale]]: A solicitor sacrosanct of the Temple of the White Rat
; [[Piper]]: A lich-doctor (medical examiner)

== Setting ==

The novel takes place in [[Archenhold]], in the [[World of the White Rat]].

[[Category:World of the White Rat books]]
[[Category:Saint of Steel]]
[[Category:Books]]

Paladin's Grace

2022-02-07T05:57:12Z

Katherine:

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| wrbk-date = February 2020
| wrbk-rating = PG-13
| wrbk-link =
| wrbk-prev =
| wrbk-next = [[Paladin's Strength]]

}}

{{quote
|Gods above and below and somewhere in the middle, why did he have to smell like gingerbread?|Grace
}}

== Cover Synopsis ==
{{quote
|Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind…
|Blurb from Argyll Publishing
}}

== Characters ==

; [[Stephen]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Grace]]: A master perfumer
; [[Marguerite]]: Grace's friend and landlord
; [[Istvhan]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Beartongue]]: Bishop of the [[Temple of the White Rat]] in Archenhold
; [[The Crown Prince of Charlock]]: A visitor to [[Archon's Glory]]
; [[Ethan DuValier]]: An emissary of the Crown Prince
; [[Shane]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Zale]]: A solicitor sacrosanct of the Temple of the White Rat
; [[Piper]]:

== Setting ==

The novel takes place in [[Archenhold]], in the [[World of the White Rat]].

[[Category:World of the White Rat books]]
[[Category:Saint of Steel]]
[[Category:Books]]

Paladin's Grace

2022-02-07T05:45:14Z

Katherine: /* Characters */

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| title =
| file = Paladins-grace.jpg
| wrbk-date = February 2020
| wrbk-rating = PG-13
| wrbk-link =
| wrbk-prev =
| wrbk-next = [[Paladin's Strength]]

}}

{{quote
|Gods above and below and somewhere in the middle, why did he have to smell like gingerbread?|Grace
}}

== Cover Synopsis ==
{{quote
|Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind…
|Blurb from Argyll Publishing
}}

== Characters ==

; [[Stephen]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Grace]]: A master perfumer
; [[Marguerite]]: Grace's friend and landlord
; [[Istvhan]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Beartongue]]: Bishop of the [[White Rat]]
; [[The Crown Prince of Charlock]]: A visitor to [[Archon's Glory]]
; [[Ethan DuValier]]: An emissary of the Crown Prince

== Setting ==

The novel takes place in [[Archenhold]], in the [[World of the White Rat]].

[[Category:World of the White Rat books]]
[[Category:Saint of Steel]]
[[Category:Books]]

Paladin's Grace

2022-02-07T05:40:29Z

Katherine: first draft

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| title =
| file = Paladins-grace.jpg
| wrbk-date = February 2020
| wrbk-rating = PG-13
| wrbk-link =
| wrbk-prev =
| wrbk-next = [[Paladin's Strength]]

}}

{{quote
|Gods above and below and somewhere in the middle, why did he have to smell like gingerbread?|Grace
}}

== Cover Synopsis ==
{{quote
|Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind…
|Blurb from Argyll Publishing
}}

== Characters ==

; [[Stephen]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Grace]]: A master perfumer
; [[Marguerite]]: A spy, presumably for [[Anuket City]]
; [[Istvhan]]: A paladin of the [[Saint of Steel]]
; [[Beartongue]]: Bishop of the [[White Rat]]
; [[The Crown Prince of Charlock]]: A visitor to [[Archon's Glory]]
; [[Ethan DuValier]]: An emissary of the Crown Prince

== Setting ==

The novel takes place in [[Archenhold]], in the [[World of the White Rat]].

[[Category:World of the White Rat books]]
[[Category:Saint of Steel]]
[[Category:Books]]

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Katherine:

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