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Chapter 5: The Black Death
Albion. In this great state of turmoil he ordered all of his troops to withdrawal from Hibernia, as he would need them to contain the illness that the locals began calling "The Black Death". The troops immediately pulled out of Hibernia leaving the fight up to their neighboring island.
Within a month many of the Albion soldiers had fallen victim to this illness. The king ordered his best Alchemist to study this illness and find a cause and a cure. He traveled to Lyonness to begin his research. His research led him to the woods to the south of Lyonness where he found a necklace that had Ogham script written on it. This concerned him as the nations relations with the Tuatha and the Hibernian people had been peaceful for many centuries.
The alchemist traveled back to Lyonness to speak with the innkeeper who might have heard something of the ill mans ramblings. When he arrived the innkeeper had also fallen prey to the illness. His journal was taken back to the
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Chapter 5: The Black Death
alchemist' workshop where he read about the sick man collapsing to the floor speaking of a tall dark skinned beast, with an amulet around his neck. The man said he swung his dagger at the beast cutting its necklace off. Before he could escape the beast cast a spell on him and then vanished.
He looked at the amulet in his hand, which possessed Ogham script on it and began making notes. He wrote in his journal that the man was rambling of a curse put on him by a tall dark skinned creature that wore and amulet with the divine language of the Hibernian Gods on it. He went on to note that this was most likely a Firbolg or Fomorian and could possibly have been one of the Tuatha.
He sent this journal back to the King and this cause great unrest between the two nations. He asked himself, how could the Tuatha de bring this death to the people who had been helping them. The betrayal was too much to overlook.
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