Greetings from Portugal,

My name is Daniel and I have always been a big fan of your books, specially the warlord chronicles. Your version of the Arthurian legend was something that I have had the greatest pleasure of reading and at the same time you managed to break my heart a couple of times by killing my favourite characters haha.

I specially loved how you handled the Tristan and Iseult plot, but I have one question regarding to it. From what I understood in the books, all characters went a little overboard and “crazy” when they were in Love, Arthur, Derfel and Tristan. But when Tristan was madly in love in Iseult it felt very differently than Arthur or Derfel. It felt as if he was far more crazy as if he was suffering from some sort of spell. In one part you even wrote that when Derfel met with Tristan after long time no see, he showed little interest in Derfel and his news regarding his deceased daughter, he kept talking about Iseult.

My question is if in this plot, he was actually suffering from some sort of spell or love potion as we hear in other versions of Arthurian lore, or was he simply madly in love that nothing else mattered?

Daniel