birthday his own father Breas, out of jealous rage sent him to his death in one of the most meaningless battles ever fought. This caused an all out war between the Tuatha and Formorians and the Tuatha forced the Formorians out of Hibernia. Now the Formorians can be found on the small island of Hybrasil. Seeing this war take place did however smooth over relations between the Firbolg and Tuatha and finally the Firbolg joined the alliance.

Meanwhile in the land of Midgard, a Stormur Herra by the name of Ugmug was ordered to take a small band of troops to Hibernia. They were ordered to infiltrate the eastern shores of Emain Macha, secure a fortress, and make contact with a greedy Celtic rouge by the name of Kerwyn who had agreed to steal the Bioran de Saorsa.

Ugmug set sail from the port of Mularn. Less than a season later his ships landed on the shores of Emain Macha. A cave quickly became

their base camp and was the arranged meeting spot for Kerwyn. At the next full moon Kerwyn arrived late at night by horse. He met with Ugmug and agreed that in exchange for the staff Ugmug would give him 5 platinum coins and a home in Midgard in the highest class neighborhood of the Midgard society.

Kerwyn spent many months observing the guard cycles and patterns around Tùr na Tir na mBeo. He noticed one guard had a tendency to talk with a local roan maiden a wee bit too much and talking wasn't all they were doing. He planned his entrance around the guard's scandalous affair, planning to sneak in and out of the tower before he would ever notice. His plan went exactly as he imagined and by the next moon cycle he found himself with the Bioran de Saorsa in his hand running riding swiftly to Emain Macha.

Once again as winter came, snow fell on the hills east of Ardee. Anu began having nightmares