To the great Ward Evers, who was the godfather of this series, who dreamt it into being at NOLA in the French Quarter during the ALA Conference of 1993 over uncounted Dixie Blackened Voodoos, and who insisted that medieval music, string theory of physics, archeology, anthropology, herbalism, and linguistics could, in fact, be the basis for a fantasy series. Thank you forever, my friend.
