The House of Festil is a fictional royal family in the Deryni series of historical fantasy novels by Katherine Kurtz. Throughout the novels, various members of the family occasionally serve as primary and/or secondary antagonists of the plot, most notably in Camber of Culdi, Saint Camber, The Bastard Prince, Deryni Rising, and High Deryni. The family is a junior branch of the House of Furstán, the royal family of the Kingdom of Torenth, and the Deryni heritage of the family is juxtaposed by the human heritage of the House of Haldane, the main protagonists of the series.
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