PIF 22

Plot Summary

Jerott helps Gilles, Marthe and Gaultier to move in to the house Gaultier has rented, and then begins to look for Lymond. Mikál tells Jerott that Lymond is an opium addict, and lets Jerott see Lymond with Khaireddin. Jerott understands the life Khaireddin has had and offers to help. Philippa is in contact with Lymond through Hepsabah. She is summoned to the Sultan's rooms – to be faced with Gabriel. She must do whatever he wants or Kuzùm will suffer. Gabriel tells her that there are two children - one being his and Joleta's – and that Hepsabah's role as a messenger has been discovered.

Dates

Autumn 1553, immediately following the events of PIF 21.

Fictional Characters

(including references to characters not present)

• Georges Gaultier
• Marthe
• Jerott Blyth
• the blind Meddáh
• Ishiq
• Hepsabah
• Archie Abernethy
• Abernaci
• Ali
• Míkál
• the Geomaler
• Khaireddin
• Francis Crawford of Lymond
• Philippa Somerville
• Kiaya Khátún
• the Mistress of the Baths
• the Mistress of the Wardrobe
• Graham Reid Malett
• Jubrael Pasha|Gabriel
• the child (referenced)
• Salablanca (referenced)
• Onophrion Zitwitz (referenced)
• the child (referenced)
• Názik (referenced)
• the Syrian silk-farmer (referenced)
• Kedi (referenced)
• Joleta(referenced)
• Evangelista Donati (referenced)
• Kuzucuyum (referenced)
• the Pearl of Fortune (referenced)
• the French Ambassador (referenced)
• Kuzùm (referenced)
• Tulip (referenced)
• Kate Somerville (referenced)
• Zeus (referenced)

Non-Fictional Characters

(including references to characters not present)

• Pierre Gilles
• Hussein, Chief Keeper of the Royal Menageries
• the Kislar Agha, Chief Black Eunuch
• Khourrem Sultán
• Jean Chesnau, French chargé d'affaires (referenced)
• M. de Luetz, Baron d' Aramon (referenced)
• Herpestes (referenced)
• the ichneumon (referenced)
• Justinian (referenced)
• Ulysses (referenced)
• Helen of Troy (referenced)
• Homer (referenced)
• Achilles (referenced)
• Arcadius (referenced)
• Constantine Helios (referenced)
• Jesus Christ (referenced)
• Suleiman the Magnificent (referenced)
• Dragut (referenced)
• Grand Master of the Knights of St John (referenced)
• Rustem Pasha, the Grand Vizier (referenced)
• Prince Mustafa (referenced)

Locations

(Including references to other locations)

• the Golden Horn
• the French Embassy in Constantinople
• the New Jerusalem
• House of Gaultier in Constantinople
• Mehmet Baths
• Constantine's Palace
• Beyazit Mosque
• House of the Pilgrims of Love near the Valens Aqueduct
• the harem
• the Golden Road
• the Bazaar, Constantinople (referenced)
• the Hippodrome, Constantinople (referenced)
• Aleppo (referenced)
• St. Sophia, Constantinople (referenced)
• the Danube (referenced)
• Stamboul (referenced)
• Pera (referenced)
• Bezestan, a market in Constantinople (referenced)
• Mengrelia (referenced)
• Rome (referenced)
• Forum of the Bull (referenced)
• House of Concordia (referenced)
• Temple of Thomas the Apostle (referenced)
• Hot Baths of Honoria (referenced)
• Forum of Theodosius (referenced)
• Baths of Achilles (referenced)
• Mehmet Mosque (referenced)
• the Seraglio (referenced)
• old Royal Palace (referenced)
• House of Nazik (referenced)
• Thessalonika (referenced)
• Topkapi (referenced)
• the Beglierbey's house (referenced)
• Mehedia (referenced)
• House of Donati (referenced)
• the tekke of the Bektashi Dervishes(referenced)
• Chios (referenced)
• Flaw Valleys (referenced)
• Edinburgh (referenced)
• the At Meydan (referenced)

Literature

• loi, foi, nation qui soit - Whatever law, faith or nation it might be
• Where are you going, pretty fair maid
• And in the night, give Him glory too
• The shepherd clutch thee fast

Other References

• Natura sunt Turcae avari et pecuniarum avide - The Turks are by nature greedy and desirous of money
• A Barbariis et icendiis deletas esse - Destroyed by barbarians and by fires
• Yâ Fattâh - O thou the open handed
• the Star in Bread Street
• the blessings of St Blasius
• like the old gentleman of the city
• Night is the stranger's
• King Solomon's great bird
• Chi pecora sifa
• like a she-pig
• when the clay for thee was kneaded
• like a mouse on a tow-line
• like peeled wicks

Quotes from Dunnett

• Only, one chooses the hour when one calls on an opium-eater
• Francis Crawford's face ... was filled with ungovernable feeling: of shock and of pain and of a desire beyond bearing: the desire of the hart which longs for the waterbrook, and which does not know ... for what it has thirsted
• Come Khaireddin, it is time to say goodnight to the dark

Controversies

• which child is which?

Previous/Next

PIF 21/PIF 23

References

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