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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maidhc O Casain" data-source="post: 3768586" data-attributes="member: 29558">An Audience w/ the Queen“These things we know to be fact.  When my father was a boy he imagined himself a great explorer and spent much time roaming the mountains behind our city, poking and prying into everything as boys will.  In his ‘travels,’ he came upon a cave somewhat higher up Áit Naofa than is Tearmann.  Inside this cave, he found artifacts and writings in a much older form of our own language indicating that the sacred mountain was once the location of the last of the CéaDaoine cities.The rest of my tale is nothing more than educated guess and supposition.During this time, the Humans continued their climb up the ladder to full sentience, and eventually found their way to their present state.  It was discovered along the way that all three of the races of the world could interbreed, and for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, they did so.  This resulted in a dilution of the blood of all three so that it appeared that for the most part they became one race.However, it seems that the blood of the Daoine deBith was too powerful to be completely subjugated by Human or Laoch heritage, and there continued to be born . . . creatures . . . that appeared to be fully Daoine.  Occasionally, children who appeared completely Human manifested powers that spoke of Daoine heritage as well.As the number of people who manifested Daoine physical traits declined, they became viewed more and more with suspicion and hatred by the ‘normal’ members of the race, and were eventually driven into hiding and seclusion. As you know, this continues even into the present day – children who appear mis-Born are left out to die and are often taken by the Daoine.  Also, you are aware that the Daoine form their own kingdoms which they call Contae.  There they deem themselves subject to their own laws only, and hold themselves apart from the human kingdoms.What was not known until recently is that there are those born also who manifest traits of the Laoch as well.  Some of these appear to be almost fully Laoch – these die shortly upon reaching adulthood, when the Tnúth, the Longing, comes on them.  They sicken and die, and most still believe that they are simply struck by a wasting illness.  The truth is known but to a few.Some, however, are born with the blood of the Laoch subdued beneath their Human heritage.  In these, the blood can be awakened.  This grants them the abilities – the strength and hardiness – of the old Laoch, but also awakens in them the need for the Cuibhreach, the bond.Fortunately for those in whom the Laoch blood manifests fully, there is another of the old races that has not completely passed from the world.  Indeed, the CéaDaoine could also breed with the Humans, who appear to be infinitely adaptable.  Those who manifest the old blood of the creators rarely show physical signs, and until recently there was nothing to set them apart from the Humans.  However, there is enough of the CeaDaoine in them to complete the Cuibhreach and to lay rest to the Tnúth.”Again, the Queen pauses and looks around as though gauging your reactions to her tale.</blockquote>

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