Royal Portrait of Queen Ealathoune the Fair by Loston Wallace (As Related by Emily Woanaz to the Royal Archivist) “One of the first Viking kings to rule the Isle of Man set this pearl in the ring he gave his Norman bride. She loved another, a handsome young warrior, but she was the price the king demanded for the cessation of raids on her father’s coastal kingdom. So remarkable was her beauty that no other maiden would do. “The wily girl plied the king with liquor so that she would not have to endure their wedding night. When he awoke…
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Secret History of the Sindons
“Their roots are ancient, these necromancers. The cult appropriated the name ‘Sindon’ from an Elder Race, one which initially dwelt in waste and arid places beyond the sea. There they learned their dark arts from the demons who inhabited this wilderness after being banished there by the servants of Elyon, the ancient priest-kings and queens of Aslem-Beth. “The Sindons then rose up from the waste places and overthrew the tribes of certain men of the west, upon whose backs they built the Sindon Empire of Vohl-Uz. Then, after a millennium, their rule and culture were overthrown by barbarians out of…