Ghislain de Somerville

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In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, Ghislain de Somerville is a nobleman of Terre d'Ange, the son of Percy de Somerville. He has pale blue eyes and a broad L'Agnacite face, and the scent of apples common to all Somervilles. Ghislain proves himself an able military commander; he is particularly good with maps, and commands a faction of unerring L'Agnacite archers.

When King Ganelon grants Percy the duchy of House Trevalion and commands him to sail the fleet of Azzalle against Alba and Eire, Percy hands these responsibilities to Ghislain, who finds himself kept from the Alban Coast by the efforts of the Master of the Straits. Facing enormous waves and great storms, Ghislain deems failure the better part of wisdom, and turns back the fleet.

During the Skaldic invasion, Ghislain is in charge of military forces holding off the Skaldi in Namarre. He meets up with Phèdre nó Delaunay, Drustan mab Necthana, and the forces of the Albans and Dalriada, and finds himself on the end of Joscelin Verreuil's Cassiline blades, along with half a dozen Alban and Dalriadan swords when he inadvertently insults Phèdre.

When Drustan mab Necthana and his Alban forces begin launching strikes on the Skaldi lines, Ghislain directs his D'Angelines to fill a pass and trap the Skaldi.