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SOLVED. Adult Fantasy 80s/90s. Princess knight protagonist who is also half witch in high magic medieval setting must seek archangel artifacts. (Witchdame by Kathleen Sky)
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Ky wrote: "I've read this. This is Witchdame."YES! THAT IS IT! THANK YOU THANK YOU!
I was beginning to think me and half dozen other people dreamed it up together! I joined Stackexchange and LibraryThing so those other people could get their answer finally as well! XD
Now you all know! :) You're most welcome.
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(view spoiler)[The princess's mother, a witch, dies, but not before casting a spell on her husband to make him impotent. After her death, the king immediately tries to have sex with some girl, but ends up crying in bed. The virility of the royalty is mystically connected to the health of the land, so the crops immediately begin to fail.
The princess must lose her virginity for some mystic reason. It is mentioned that the king himself is considered appropriate in this ceremony, but a substitute is arranged--the archangel Michael, in a mask. Michael has hot sex with the princess, which has mystic resonance so people can tell. The princess has lustful fantasies about her mystery lover. The king hears about it and believes it may have been him while drunk. Since the land requires virility, he starts considering that he might only be virile with his daughter and maybe they should start having sex. (hide spoiler)]
That is as far as I read. Alternative search pages only turned up other queries that sounded right but were not answered. Reddit's Findabook sub removed my post because the text is not "family friendly." I copy pasted the main text of the queries below as well as the links.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/280203
Poster believes they read it in the late 90s.(view spoiler)[Near the beginning the queen, who is a witch, is casting a curse on her husband the king. She has a handkerchief with his seed on it that she has tied into 9 knots. The curse is so he would-be impotent with any other woman so that her daughter will rule. The only way to undo the curse is by undoing the knots. She then throws it into the fireplace for it to burn. She ends up passing away shortly after. As the book goes on the king does end up with anther woman but can't perform, he cries about his dead wife.
His daughter also becomes a witch. There is another scene of her graduating where she has to walk through something, can't remember what, but it shows her all the pain she has caused others by her actions and inaction. And something else but can't recall.
Anyway she goes around the country to see what all is wrong with it and shows it to the king.
In the end she ends up having to fight the woman who was trying to seduce the king. The woman turns herself into a black dragon and the princess has things from 4 archangels. A wooden sword from Uriel, a white horse from Gabriel; Michael gives her his glove and she finally gets a ring from Raphael. (Who she had tried to dice with to get it.) (hide spoiler)]
Here is another unanswered query description that sounds like this book:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/35...
I can't recall the name or author of a fantasy novel I read in high school in the 80's. The main female character had a derivative of the name Elizabeth, had red hair, and was some sort of princess.(view spoiler)[ She was to become queen (I think), and had a best friend who was a malformed jester (who she slept with). The land of the kingdom was made fertile by the carnal activities of its royals.
There was also some sort of archangel interaction that saw the main character sleep with a mask-wearing Michael- who she thought was her father the king (IIRC), and throw dice vs another archangel (Raphael) wherein the main character threw and eleven, and the archangel she was competing with was told something like, "...no matter how long he tries, he will never throw higher than an eleven". (hide spoiler)]
UPDATE: I have found another unanswered Librarything query. The detail about the father is that he died (maybe eventually?), but the rest matches.
https://www.librarything.com/topic/29...
I think I read this around the 1990's.
It had a princess(??, MC) whose father just died, and the kingdom is falling apart. In order to restore the country she has to go to the four corners and entreat the guardian angel (??) at each point (I think it was like a chant/quatrain or something).
On one of the points she entreats the angel for help instead of doing it by her own power, so the tapestry is incomplete. At the end of the story she summons the missing angel (doesnt show for all practical purposes) and throws dice using her own power. She gets a very high roll, but the angel doesnt roll back. There is something like a female overdeity in change of everything who says that for all eternity the angel would never roll higher than a 5 or some such. Because of this he concedes and the tapestry is complete, and the country is restored.
When she fights the main evil, Michael gives her a glove with a ring in it (symbolizing his love/surrender to her). This gives her power to her lance. I think the evil was a dragon or a demon.
When the princess realizes how much power she has, that she could destroy the world, her lover, the archangel Michael, tells her that if she ever thinks that thought again, her fall will be greater than the main evil dude she was trying to defeat the whole book.
I want to say the title was Witchblade, but that is not getting me any hits which sounds familiar. I sorta remember the book cover. I will write more if it becomes more clear. I want to say it was reminiscent of the Eye of the World artwork. I believe a castle, showing four towers in disrepair.