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The Hallowed Hunt : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Hallowed Hunt
''The Hallowed Hunt'' is a fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2005. It placed fourth in the annual Locus Poll for best fantasy novel.〔(Locus Index to SF Awards )〕 == Context in the series == This novel is set in the same world as two of Bujold's previous fantasies, ''The Curse of Chalion'' (2001) and ''Paladin of Souls'' (2003), but in a country ("the Weald") well to the south of the Ibran Peninsula, i.e. with a cooler climate. The earlier books introduce a setting in which technology and society parallel those of a late medieval Earth, with a strong but decentralized religion of five gods. Many of the conflicts in those books have to do with the relationships between human protagonists and demons (spiritual beings which cause disruption) capable of co-inhabiting their bodies. The action of ''The Hallowed Hunt'' takes place about 250 years earlier,〔"Author's Note: A Bujold Reading Order Guide" in Bujold, ''Penric's Demon,'' self-published July 2015.〕 in a region which still has strong memories of the culture which preceded conquest from the north and imposition of the five-god religion, centuries earlier. In this earlier culture, leaders practiced shamanism. This involves the intentional accumulation of the spirits of dying "kin" animals, one by one, into new animal bodies, with the powerful final spirit taken into a warrior. This is not the same as demonic possession, but it involves a similar problem of acknowledging a divided spiritual self. While ''Curse of Chalion'' focuses on the Daughter (teacher and nurturer) among the five gods, and ''Paladin of Souls'' on the Bastard (master of the demons), ''The Hallowed Hunt'' presents the warrior realm of the Son.
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