Izgard swilled the wine on his tongue. He didn't taste it. He had never tasted anything in his life. Those who were born to wear the Barbed Coil always came into the world with one crucial flaw. Evlach I had two fingers short of eight, his son Evlach II had been born with a clubbed foot, and his son after that had a disease that caused bone and flesh to grow at random on his face. He looked like a monster, yet won wars like a king: such were the rulers of Garizon.