![]() And in a brain-twisting paradox, I became the first Brother of Dragons, initiating the heritage that would welcome me into its ranks two thousand years in the future. It despatched through time its supernatural agents, the Army of the Ten Billion Spiders, to prevent me and the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons from challenging it again.Īt the great stone circle of Boskawen-Un, I encountered Hal in the Blue Fire, who set me off on a quest across two millennia to return to my own time. But the simplicity and beauty of that rural existence did not last long, for the Void still saw me as a threat. ![]() Members of a Celtic tribe adopted me in their village at Carn Euny, in what would become Cornwall, and I lived a simple life with new friends. I walked out of the morning mists into an unspoiled world more than two thousand years ago, a huge part of my memory missing. Secure in its victory, the Void changed reality to a very familiar construct: the age-old prison of money and power, devoid of magic and wonder and it locked the remaining Brothers and Sisters of Dragons into fake lives, denying them their memories so they would never again attain their true potential and threaten its rule.Īt the time, I knew nothing of these events. At the point of defeat, Hal chose to sacrifice himself and become part of the Blue Fire so that he could seek me out in time, and guide me back for the final battle. The new Brothers and Sisters of Dragons could not vanquish such a force, even when aided by Ruth, Shavi and Laura. It could even alter reality itself, twisting it into new shapes that would help maintain its rule. Known in ancient myths as the Devourer of All Things, or the Void, it was the opposite of Existence, of life itself, and it wielded the unlimited powers of the ultimate creator. Beyond the edge of the universe, a devastating force had woken and turned its attention towards Earth. There was Mallory, who trained in the art of warfare in the new order of Knights Templar in Salisbury his lover Sophie Tallent, who also learned the powers of the Craft Caitlin Shepherd, a doctor devastated by the deaths of her husband and son Hunter, a Special Forces operative employed by the Government and Hal, a clerk working for the same Government.īut their struggle was even greater than ours had been. And I was flung back through the ages, separated from Ruth, the woman I loved.Īs society attempted to recover from that Age of Misrule, five new Brothers and Sisters of Dragons took up the struggle. Ryan Veitch was manipulated by the gods to betray us and we thought him dead. We overcame great hardship to win a significant battle against Balor, the terrible god of the Fomorii, but we paid an awful price. As a war broke out between the Golden Ones and their ancient race enemy, the demonic, shape-shifting Fomorii, I was joined by four others: Ruth Gallagher, gifted in the ways of the Craft Shavi, a seer Ryan Veitch, a warrior and Laura DuSantiago, who was radically changed by the god Cernunnos to become a powerful force for nature. I was chosen to be one of the latest group, bound together by the Pendragon Spirit, the powerful spiritual force that runs through the earth in lines of Blue Fire, and through all humanity. Society creaked and groaned and collapsed in the face of such a supernatural force.įor more than two thousand years, Existence had always brought together five champions of Life to battle such threats, the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons. ![]() ![]() The ancient gods of Celtic mythology - the Tuatha De Danann, who called themselves Golden Ones - invaded an Age of Reason unable to cope with their irrationality. And then magic and wonder and terror returned to the world. In my past life, what I used to call my ‘real’ life, I was an archaeologist, but my days had been blighted by the death of my girlfriend, Marianne. Looking back, I can at least begin to glimpse the great, hidden pattern and how apparently random events came together, all the mysteries and secrets gradually emerging into plain sight.īut at the start I had no idea of the bigger scheme. At the time I didn’t understand the full nature of the responsibility thrust upon my shoulders. I write these words in my head, and thus on a page, and thus throughout all Existence, as I stand here, at the end of the world.įrom the first day that I accepted my role as a Brother of Dragons, I have struggled long and hard. This is a story of gods, and powers higher than gods. My name is Jack Churchill, known to my friends as Church, and I am only a man. Series: Kingdom of the Serpent The Burning Man Mark Chadbourn
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