Sgáthach
"In the old days after the dark, the Emperor of Man mastered the arts of flesh-craft and made for himself armies to conquer the worlds of all the sky - and they were twenty hosts of men, all but the second of the hosts. They alone were made in the image of the angel Astarte, and they were sisters. To lead this host, the Angel and the Emperor begat their daughter, though she never knew her mother's embrace. She was taken with her brothers by dark forces, and flung to the world that is called Manawyddan, and she floated alone in her curragh for a month on storm-tossed ocean before she found the Crag. There, she found her people and her home, and she was Sgáthach, and she was Queen. She was both slayer and seer, sage and singer, and she ruled the clans of the Crag, and led the fleets upon the sea, and slayed many a sea snake and many a warrior, and told many a tale and a song, and gave fine rings of silver and cups of fine spirit to those she called her sisters. As th
