Downfall of the High House of Nechtan is now posted.
Part 03 of 03.
What can overcome the hero’s strength and magic charms? Not cunning of wit nor strength of arms. First set your house in order, next set your churls free. The Sons of Nechtan failed; prevail the Sons of Liberty.
Downfall of the High House of Nechtan is now posted.
Part 02 of 03.
Six sons fought, some badly, some well. Nor druid lore nor arts of war prevailed. All perished where they fell. Can Ardan win, where all have failed?
Of sisters three, he asks the rede; deaf to elders, but youngest he will heed. He must do what was not done of old.
With hammer he shatters a circle of iron, then one of gold.
Downfall of the High House of Nechtan is now posted.
Part 01 of 03.
Hear a tale of woe and mystery, grand as any tale of old; attend now to my history, for you shall hear wonders told. Six sons are fallen. What hope is there in seven? Men cannot prevail unpleasing to heaven.
On the day of its downfall, in the season of spring, in the season of wrens sweetly singing in the bushes of thorn below the great outer wall, the gate of the house lay riven asunder.
