The Founders' Tribunal

In this sequel to The Darval-Mers Dossier, Redinal Hu finds himself once again playing a small, but perhaps dangerous, role in the Great Game of the contending Great Houses of Lorria.

When Red’s former colleague and good friend, Lorivel Carvie, calls and invites him to dinner – her treat – Red suspects it’s more than a social get-together. As much as he wishes it was. And, as it turns out, he was right.

Lorivel’s cousin, Carleesa Trilae, is the private secretary of their great grandmother, Penlane Trilae, the First Minister of the Commonwealth of Lorria. The First Minister has received a summons to appear before something called the Founders’ Tribunal to defend her administration against charges that she is not following the founding principles of Lorrian society. What this Founders’ Tribunal is, and who’s behind it, is a mystery. The Minister believes it to be a ploy of a cabal of Great Houses. Nevertheless she is determined, even eager, to face this secret tribunal to let them know exactly what they need to do if they want to maintain the founding principles. Her great granddaughters do not think this is a wise idea. They hope to persuade her to accept Red Hu as her legal counsel and bodyguard. 

Well, Penlane Trilae hasn’t remained First Minister of the Commonwealth of Lorria for over half a century by being timid. So it’s on to plan two.

The Founders’ Tribunal is a 25,000 word novella that takes place several months after the events recorded in The Darval-Mers Dossier. Set during the troubled times leading up to the Second Founding, this story is Red Hu’s first outing using his alias, Red Wine, a gentleman for hire. The story is set in the same world of Chateau Clare and Glencrow Summer, but during an earlier historical period than those two novels.

C. Litka spins tales of adventure, mystery, and travel set in richly imagined worlds. In The Founders’ Tribunal he has written a little story of mystery and adventure with his usual cast of colorful, fully realized characters. If you seek to escape your everyday life, you’ll find no better company, nor more wonderful worlds to explore, than in the stories of C. Litka.