Annaid Baile

By: Trevor Watts

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

• Exhausted and sickened, but victorious, Kyre - The Foundling Barbarian - returns to Lordstown from a slaughterous expedition against border invaders from the neighbouring realm of Aitierra.
• Ill-used by the Sisterhood of the Rua; adored or abandoned by a succession of lovers; seemingly at the whim of a wrathful Lord Rogor, he is sentenced to be tortured, castrated, and flogged to death.
• His body is left chained, and hanging naked from the scaffold atop Beacon Hill in a ferocious storm.
• Blasted by crackling bolts of lighting, and in the face of the lord’s vengeful high captain, and a troop of fearful troopers, can anything save him?
• In the black-raging sky, is the single point of light Syrtius, his guardian star. Does she merely look on? Or is it her who forces a single beat to squeeze a few drops of blood through his carcass? Might she reveal a clearer direction for his destiny?
• Will it be to protect the Lordlands? To unite the Five Realms? Or to destroy them all in the face of infinite betrayal and surging inner turmoil.

“Kyre – The ultimate flawed hero indeed.”