S Farrell - Holder of Lightning

232 to Caenneth Mac Noll (M) The first Daoine cloudmage, and 241 the return of the mage-lights in the skies. Caenneth was not of royal lineage, but a simple fisherman of Inish Thuaidh, yet he would come to understand the sky-magic, and would reactivate the other cloch na thrintri. Caenneth would die in Thall Coill, attempting the Scrudu.

241 to Gael O Laighin (M)

263

263 to Fearghus O Laighin (M)

279

279 to Heremon O Laighin (M) — died testing himself against the

280 Scrudu.

280 to Maitlas O Ciardha (M)

301

301 to Aithne Lochlain (F)

317

317 to Nuala Mag Aodha (F)

329

329 to Ioseph MacCana (M) Died testing himself against the 333 Scrudu.

333 to Lucan O Loingsigh (M)

379

379 to Naomhan McKenna (M)

382

382 to Kieran MacGairbhith (M)

392

392 to Eilis MacGairbhith (F) Killed in the Battle of Lough Lar

401 by Aod hfin " Liathain, and the control of the cloch moves south from Inish Thuaidh to the mainland of Talamn an Ghlas.

401 to Aodhfin O Liathain (M) RB of the small kingdom of

403 Bhaile.

403 to Dougal Woulfe (M)

416

416 to Fagan McCabe (M)

432

432 to Eoin O hAonghusa (M)

459

459 to Eimile O hAonghusa (F)

463

463 to Donal O hAonghusa (M)

480

480 to Maclean O hAonghusa (M)

487

487 to Brianna O hAonghusa (F)

499

499 to Lochlainn O'Doelan (M)

515

515 to Maitiu O'Doelan (M) Perhaps the only Daoine from

517 Talamh An Ghlas to attempt the Scrudu. He came to Thall Coill stealthily via ship in company with his good friend Keefe Mas Sithig. He did not survive the attempt.

517 to Keefe Mas Sithig (M)

529

529 to Conn DeBarra (M)

541

541 to Barra O Beoillain (M)

577

577 to Uscias Aheron (M)

591

591 to Afrika MacMuthuna (F)

597

597 to Ailen O'Curragh (M)

612

612 to Sinna Mac Ard (F) The young lover of Ailen O'Curragh,

622 who after O'Curragh's early death married Teador Mac Ard, then the RB of a fiefdom within what is now Tuath Gabair.

622 to Bryth Beirne (nee Mac Ard) (F) Daughter of Sinna and 648 Teador Mac Ard. It is during Bryth’s holding that the

Inish cloudmages began to secretly plot to bring the cloch back to the island. Negotiations were begun with Bryth, including possible ar-rangements of marriage to the RB of Inish Thuaidh, but she refused despite RB Mac Ard’s interest in that political union, and eventually married Anrai Beirne, a tiarna of Tuath Infochla.

648 to Rowan Beirne (M) Bryth’s son Rowan foolishly allowed 651 himself to be drawn north out of Falcarragh to a

supposed parley with the Inishlanders, where he was ambushed and murdered by assas-sins in the employ of the Inish cloudmage Garad Mhullien. Lamh Shabhala was taken from Rowan’s body and brought to the island. 651 to Garad Mhullien (M) The cloch returns to Inish Thuaidh.

662 Garad would die testing himself against the Scrudu.

663 to Rolan Cileachair (M)

669

669 to Peria O RBain (F) Mother of Severii, lover to Tadhg 671 O’Coulghan. She died in Thall Coill testing herself against the limits of the cloch with the Scrudu. Tadhg would take the cloch from her body and become Holder himself.

671 to Tadhg O’Coulghan (M) Founder of the Order of 701 Inishfeirm based on the tiny island of the same name just off the coast of Inish Thuaidh. Tadhg was the da of Severii, the Last Holder. It was Tadhg who began the process of codifying and bringing together all the lore of the clochs na thrintri, as well as Lamh Shabhala.

701 to Severii O’Coulghan (M) The last person to hold an active 730 Lamh Shabhala until the mage-lights returned in 1129. The mage-lights had ebbed to nothing by 726.

730 to Loman Blake (M) Lover of Severii, and a wastrel who

731 sold Lamh Shabhala to pay off gambling debts.

731 to Donnan McEvoy (M) Kept Lamh Shabhala, hoping that 741 the mage-lights would return. They didn’t. Donnan, a gambler, was killed in a tavern brawl in Dun Kiil, after which the stone passed into the possession of Kmnat Morain, who owned the tavern and confiscated the dead McEvoy’s belongings.

741 to Kinnat Morain (F)

753

753 to Edana O Broin (F) The daughter of Kinnat Morain, who 779 found the stone in her mam’s jewelry chest after her death due to the Bloody Flux. Edana and her husband took over the tavern. She had no idea that the stone was Lamh Shabhala; she kept it only because it had been her mam’s. She happened to be wearing it on the day Doyle Baroid came to Dun Kiil on business and stopped in the tavern for a drink and a meal.

779 to Doyle Baroid (M) A Brathair of the Order of Inishfeirm, 831 who recognized that the unprepossessing stone around Edana's neck was similar to the description of Lamh Shabhala in the Order's library. He purchased it from Edana, and brought it back to Inishfeirm. He would eventually become Maister of the Order. On his death, the cloch was put in the collection of the Order.

831 to During these two and a half centuries, there was no single 1075 Holder of the stone. The stone resided in the Order of Inishfeirm's collection of clochs na thrintri.

1075 Kerys Aoire (F) Kerys fell in love with a man named to Niall, one of the Brathairs of the Inishfeirm Order. Niall, 1093 as a pledge of his love, stole the cloch and gave it to

Kerys. Because the Brathairs were contracted by their families to the Order and were forbidden to marry,

Kerys and Niall fled Inishfeirm. Their small currach foundered in a storm; Niall drowned, but Kerys, pregnant, survived. She would give the cloch to her son, also named Niall.

1093 Niall Aoire (M) In traveling, he came to Tuath Gabair to and the village of Ballintubber, where he fell in love with 1113 and married a woman named Maeve Oldspring. Niall would lose the stone (or perhaps the stone lost him) while walking on Knob top, a hill near Ballintubber.

The Known Clochs Mor, Their Current Man] Stormbringer(color: smoky-gray) Inish ? Captain of Uaigneas? Maister Cleurach Ability to control and lightning. Th will strike random Blaze (color: bright red) Inish ? Padraic Mac Ard? Ennis O’Deoradhain? Padraic Mac Ard A fireball/lightni Snarl (color: blue-green) Inish ? Damhlaic Gairbith? Ennis O’Deoradhain? Mundy Kirwan of the Order Capable of puttin unaided human c Firerock (color: ruddy) Inish ? Tiarna, ally of Aron O Dochartaigh? Kyle MacEagan Creates a creatur Scail (color: opaque silver) Inish ? Aithne MacBradaigh Can mirror the e Demon-Caller Tuatha ? Nevan O Liathain Creates a wingec

Waterfire(color: sapphire)	Tuatha	? Aron O Dochartaigh	Produces blue st
Snapdragon (color: yellow laced with red)	Tuatha	? A tiarna of the Tuatha	Creates a whiplil chews at the fles
Rogue	Tuatha	? A tiarna of the Tuatha	Creates a tsunan
Sharpcut	Tuatha	? A tiarna of the Tuatha	Calls into being c unseen infantry.
Weaver	Tuatha	? A tiarna of the Tuatha	Creates a stingin
Nightmare	Tuatha	? A tiarna of the Tuatha	Give the Holder worst fears or gr
Wolfen (color: amber crackled with black)	Tuatha	? A tiarna of the Tuatha	Calls into being g
Tornado (color: black)	Tuatha	? A tiarna of the Tuatha	An energy-sucke draining it
GodFist	Tuatha	? A tiarna of the Tuatha	Creates an ether effect is (such as
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All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

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