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Septimania

Location

Pentagram Point: Spiritus / Home — the Series' Home Anchor

Historical Accuracy

Real Visigothic frontier region. The Sacred Pattern is fictional.

Historical Significance

Sources: - Standard Visigothic-history surveys; ties to the Battle of Vouillé dossier.

Septimania was the last Visigothic territory in Gaul, surviving nearly two centuries after Clovis's conquest reshaped the rest of the region.

Historical Era

Book I, Book II, Book III

Novel Relevance: - The series' 'home' anchor — Book I opens here. Historically fitting: the one corner of Gaul that resists Frankish conquest even after Clovis's total victory elsewhere. Timeline: - 462 AD ceded to Visigoths; 507 AD Vouillé; 508 AD Carcassonne defense preserves it; 8th c. eventual conquest. Book II Return: - By 540 AD, Septimania remains a Visigothic frontier held between Frankish and Ostrogothic spheres of influence. Merona returns here before departing for Byzantium, grounding Book II's opening act in the same home ground established in Book I.

Key Facts: - Ceded to the Visigoths in 462 AD under Theodoric II - Capital at Narbonne, also seat of the Archbishop of Narbonne - After Vouillé (507), Septimania was the last Visigothic territory in Gaul, surviving until 8th-century conquest

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