Now Jirel seeks his help in returning to the cavern. He would only say that something worse than hell was at its end. Years ago he and she found a tunnel under the dungeon and explored part of it. She puts on some light armor and seeks out the castle priest. Jirel awakens in a cell and soon manages to escape.
Guillaume knocks her out with a single punch in retaliation. When he forces a kiss on her, she nearly rips his throat out with her teeth in spite of being tied. Jirel is not unaware of the intent of his gaze. Guillaume removes the rest of her armor with his eyes, as the saying goes. In addition to putting up a good fight, Jirel is a gorgeous redhead. He’s shocked when the remove the commander’s helmet to discover she’s a woman. “The Black God’s Kiss” opens with a conqueror, named only Guillaume, who is standing in the throne room of Joiry as two of his men bring Joiry’s commander in. The first story is probably one of her best known. Note: the rest of this post will contain spoilers. But for the first time in the history of the field, here was a female character who was worthy of her own series.
There were only five Jirel stories, plus the Jirel and Northwest Smith team-up “Quest of the Starstone” that she wrote with her husband Henry Kuttner. Instead of setting these stories in space like she did with Northwest Smith, or in some age before the dawn of recorded history, like Howard did with Conan, Moore chose to place Jirel in the fictional French kingdom of Joiry, square in the Middle Ages. I’m talking, of course, about Jirel of Joiry. Moore created a second series character, one that would have an even greater impact on the genre. Shortly after she began chronicling the adventures of Northwest Smith, C.
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