- To him
- Archbishop, teacher, the man who knighted a priest
- When they meet
- Turalyon’s years in the Church of the Holy Light
- In the public record
- His story continues, in undeath, far from this chronicle’s center.
People
Alonsus Faol
Faol is the reason there is a paladin named Turalyon at all. The boy was already a priest in Capital City, capable, obedient, and unsure why anyone would single him out. The archbishop singled him out anyway and put him among the first Knights of the Silver Hand. The explanation Faol is given in the novels is simple enough to keep: the others were fighters who had to learn the Light, and Turalyon was the Light’s student who had to learn to fight.
That choice sets the guilt as well as the glory. A man trained to heal, then handed a sword and a commander’s standard, spends the rest of his life asking whether the sword was the assignment or a mistake he survived. Faol does not stay at his elbow for the Blackrock ending. The appointment does.
The picture is the student, not the archbishop. Faol’s page should still be read as a church. The biography of the archbishop after Lordaeron’s fall is another book.