![]() ![]() Tamwyn is sent to Olanabram or Stoneroot, while Scree returns to Rahnawyn or Fireroot. Later, visiting the portal, Tamwyn and Scree are attacked by the birds again the two boys enter the portal to escape. As their mother attempted to teach the two the art of portalseeking, wherein the traveler is teleported through the vascular system of Avalon itself, she is killed by the assassin-like birds called ghoulacas. After his mother was murdered, he was adopted by Tamwyn's mother, and raised by her until he was ten years old. Scree: An eagleboy, having the ability to change between human form and that of an eagle.His name means Dark Flame in the language of the flamelons, his mother's people. He has suspicions that he might be the Dark Child, as he is born in the Dark Year and seems to think there is a hidden darkness in him. ![]() Tamwyn: A young man who has, for the majority of his lifetime, lived in the realm of Rahnawyn with his adopted brother, Scree.For this, he needs Merlin's staff, Ohnyalei, which has been for seventeen years in the keeping of Tamwyn's foster-brother, the eagleman Scree, who was also born in the Dark Year. Characters Tamwyn, Elli, Nuic, Henni, Llynia, and later Batty Lad, must journey to the Lady of the Lake to find out what is happening, and how they can stop it.Įventually, it is revealed that a sorcerer, Kulwych or White Hands, a servant of the evil spirit Rhita Gawr, has dammed the river that sustains the three realms named above with the sole purpose of collecting enough of the water, which has élano, a powerful life-giving substance, to produce a pure and powerful crystal. A drought appears in realms Olanabram, Brynchilla, and El Urien humans become anthropocentric and arrogant and the stars in the Wizard's Staff are again darkening, one by one. ![]() Despite this, rumors persist of a child being born in the Flamelon stronghold in the root-realm Rahnawyn or Fireroot.ġ7 years after the Dark Year, things are going badly. The only hope beneath the stars to save that world so fair, will be the Merlin then alive, the wizard's own true heir What shall become of Avalon, our dream, our deepest need?What glory or despair shall sprout from Merlin's magic seed?ĭuring the foretold Dark Year, the majority of creatures in Avalon forbade childbirth, killing all children born in spite of the moratorium. As a parting gift he, with the help of his friend Basilgarrad the dragon, flew up to the stars and rekindled the darkened constellation.Īll was well until the Lady of the Lake again appeared, this time to say a prophecy:Ī year will come when stars go dark, and faith will fail anon For born shall be a child who spells the end of Avalon After the war ended, Merlin said that he would probably not return to Avalon, and that Avalon's problems must be solved by Avalonians. The war was only resolved by the Treaty of the Swaying Sea, crafted by the mysterious Lady of the Lake and by Merlin. The beginning of the war was heralded by the darkening of the stars in the constellation the Wizard's Staff. Peace is shattered by the War of Storms, a war that included almost all of the races in Avalon and lasted for several centuries. However, sometime after Elen died, Rhiannon, called Rhia, resigned as High Priestess and left, never to be seen again. The Society promotes harmony between all races, and the upkeep of the Great Tree, which sustains them all. The Society was started by Elen and Rhiannon, mother and sister to Merlin respectively, also characters from The Lost Years of Merlin. Élano, the sap of the Great Tree, is a liquid that has the power to create, with powers far greater than that of Merlin himself.įor the first several centuries of Avalon's existence, the creatures lived in harmony, guided by the religion of Avalon, the Society of the Whole, its followers known as Drumadians, named after a wood in The Lost Years of Merlin. Soon it grew into a huge tree, having members of every existing species living in its 7 root-realms. It was originally published as The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy, the first novel in The Great Tree of Avalon trilogy, and is set in a world made up of a great tree and its seven roots inhabited by creatures.Īvalon started its life as a magical seed that beat like a heart, planted by Merlin in earlier books from the Merlin Saga. The book is the ninth novel in the 12-book series known as Merlin Saga. Barron, published by Penguin Young Readers Group. The Great Tree of Avalon is a fantasy novel by T. ![]()
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