and the Tuatha were called together. Dagda was sent to Tùr na Tir na mBeo to check on the sacred staff. When Dagda arrived he noticed the staff had been stolen. In his rage Dagda struck the tower sending it crumbling to the floor. The staff was gone and worse yet the veil had fallen.

The search for the staff began however it was too late. When Kerwyn arrived at Ugmugs hideout he was told that Ugmug asked he meet him at the village of Failte. The tired and nervous thief made haste to the small Lurikeen village. From a distance he could see a cloud of smoke. As he neared the small bodies of Lurikeens were scattered throughout the land. It was an massacre and those who survived the initial raid were captured, locked in their town hall and burnt till while the children of the village were locked in a cage forced to watch their mothers, fathers, and grandparents burst into flames and perish.

Ugmug rode into town with cynical grin on his

face. He dismounted his horse and walked over to the now shaking thief. He took the staff into his hand and yelled something in a Midgard tongue. A loud uproar began and then an utter panic. Ugmug looked to the cage where the children were held, and noticed the lock had been removed and the children escaped.

The children arrived at Dun Crauchon and the forces of Hibernia were sent to the village of Failte. When arrived they found the body of the hooded thief stapled to the side of a burnt building with a piece of the sacred staff shoved through his forehead and through the oaken log wall. Scouts led the troops back to the cave where Ugmug had set up camp. To their dismay the cave was empty. All that was found was a few remains from spraggons that had made a tasty meal at one time. The Midgards had set sail back to the homeland to inform their leaders that the Veil had fallen and the most powerful stone that had ever befallen the hands of a mortal, was now in the possession of Midgard.