Figures of Earth
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The story of Manuel, a swineherd in thirteenth-century France, who becomes Count Manuel of Poictesme. The motto on his coat of arms is "Mundus Vult Decipi"--The world wishes to be deceived. It is in playing on others' expectations that he rises to hero status and becomes Manuel the Redeemer.
Fiction, fantasy, generalPoictesme (imaginary place), fictionWit and humorHumor, generalHeroesFictionMedieval CivilizationAmericanFantasy fictionComedyFantasy