Unfortunately, whilst this is going on his country is under threat from external enemies and also from internal strife. The Curse of Chalion is a novel about trauma, about a man who has faced serious degradation and danger but lived to tell of it, and afterwards has to find his way back to something approaching normalcy. What happens when your life is taken from you and you are left abused, beaten and broken, and then abruptly returned to your former life? When Iselle and her brother are summoned to the royal court by their brother, the ailing king, Cazaril finds himself in a political nest of vipers, pitted against an old enemy who is very unhappy to see that he has survived, and a curse that may be beyond his abilities to thwart. He is made tutor to Iselle, the sister of the heir to the kingdom, a position initially without power or influence.
Returning to his old home of Valenda, he seeks service with the Provincara dy Baocia.
Taken prisoner after a siege, he has been sold into bondage, made a galley-slave and been rescued. His ongoing illness as seen in the tale is intentionally similar to Diabetes II.Lupe dy Cazaril is a former soldier in the army of Chalion. His nose was broken in an accident and looked like a squashed mushroom, his curly hair was auburn, later graying to roan, his face was pale and puffy and his body grossly broadened. Due to his knowledge of the curse that lays upon Chalion, he attempted to rule through his chancellor, Martou dy Jironal. An indecisive and ineffective ruler, he was known as Orico the Impotent.
His wife was Royina Sara they had no children. Orico dy Chalion was roya of Chalion at the opening of The Curse of Chalion he was the son of Ias and his Brajaran first wife. Cazaril, musing on Orico's fate, Curse of Chalion
Like some doomed little hero holding back a dike of woe, and drowning while the others escaped the tide. And yet, whatever Orico had been, he had held on long enough for the next generation to gain its chance.
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