By Ray McCarthy

The Trader's Isle series is set in mediaeval like world without explosives for weapons (black powder etc) or ship's clocks. The massive world wars and loss of much technology a thousand years earlier was bad, but the rise of the Sorcerers called the Silver Wolf Heads using the Arinopean Barons as puppet leaders was a disaster for the Isle of Amrat and the people curiously called Traveller Folk, even though they are not nomadic. The painting is a detail from Le Jardin de Maubuisson by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).