One of the oldest and most mysterious of the tribes of wandering, outlawed mages roaming Thosea’s Northern wastes, especially in the region of Karak (or World’s End), their favourite haunt being the shimmering, nebulous Hiraeth mountains, which tend to flicker between worlds in response to loud noises. The mages take this odd existence in their stride, though – if they were to return to their old homes and previous lives, the Emperor in Dal-Rhiatah would have them executed for the crime of using magic.
The Plentyn-Aderyn (rough translation: “Children of Birds”) tribe adopts runaway mages, and lost children with the potential for magic in their blood, and takes care of them as if they are family. Not only are there members of all genders and ages and races within it, there are also members from different species, e.g. The Muryans (one of them being a Muryan named Trabas).
They are semi-nomadic, travelling to different valleys twice a year, and they attend a meeting of other clans every equinox. Their exact location is unknown.
We meet the Plentyn-Aderyn tribe in “A Dark Heritage: The Nighthunter” when Logan Bartholom, Noran Cadwallader, and the Professor journey to North Thosea, seeking a safe home for the Professor’s daughter Cailte, and are almost killed by a group of Brontides striding across the land. They find Trabas waiting for them by a river of lava, and he leads them through the darkness to the tribe’s secret camp. At this point, the tribe is led by a man named Olav who paints glyphs on his body and likes to use magic for any menial task if he can get away with it. The Plentyn-Aderyn cannot teach Cailte to use the type of magic her body harbours (Foundational magic, which is an ancient form from when the worlds were born) but they promise to take her to the next clan meet and give her to a tribe who know how to use that sort of power.
The News:
Yours writerly is still recovering from surgery. There has been some improvement. The first draft of Codex Corvidae is nearing its end.
OUAC ezine is still closed to submissions. There is a backlog. I aim to get issue 12 out in April 2023.
I currently have a volunteer job creating digital tours of churches in my local area. You can see some of them here: https://www.heritagesouthholland.co.uk/south-holland-historic-churches/
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