
His illness led to gangrene and the amputation of his right pinky and ring finger. When she returned, they discovered he had contracted leprosy. He struggled with his next book and retreated to Haven Farm for privacy in order to work. Even so, he had feared that the book would not do well and they lived off Joan's income, she being a successful horse trainer. Some in the Land mistake him for Berek returned, as legends said he would come again.īefore his diagnosis, Covenant wrote a novel within six months of being published, it spent a year on the bestseller lists. Having lost the two last fingers on his right hand to leprosy, he has an uncanny resemblance to the Land's Berek Halfhand, the creator of the Land's Council of Lords, and one of its foremost heroes.

His leprosy results in him becoming an outcast from the rest of society his bills are paid by anonymous others and his groceries are delivered to him on Haven Farm to keep him out of the town and away from the general public. He is an author who develops Leprosy his wife Joan leaves him and takes their young son Roger with her.


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