Wanting to remain unseen for the most part, Llew crept the edges of the ruinous village, until finding a cave on the far end, closed off with rubble save for a crack near the top large enough for his lithe form to slip within. Inside it seemed that none had walked for centuries, though the signs of occupation ages ago still covered the walls. He crawled deeper and deeper until the stench of musk and decay was near overwhelming, and he found to his dismay and gigantic rotting corpse with a single solitary spear...gleamning in its brilliance and splendor...jutting from the pile of flesh.
So brilliant was this weapon that Llew Llaw Gyffes failed to wonder what kept the flesh from total decomposition despite the obvious fact that it was as old as the cave. He gingerly stepped towards the spear, and with both hands withdrew it from the sludge. He had found his great treasure, an artifact from the ancient days, and would return home with it displayed proudly, to be used in the ongoing wars with the Albion and Midgard hordes.
As Gyffes neared the entrance to the cave in his retreat, he hear deep and foul noises back from the depths, sounds of multiple cries, of breaking bones, suffering. Something terrible had begun, not doubt from the loot Gyffes carried in his hands. Hurriedly he scrambled up the pile of rocks to the crack, and freedom.
Once outside he saw the shambling forms of the fomorians slowly walking towards the cave, dragging their great mishappen forms towards him...but not because of him. He was still able to walk with little care past the mass of giants, and run back to syvlan villages where he eventually traveled back to Hibernia.
The story of the spear is well known, and its role it has played in the Realmwars. A great artifact for all of Hibernia to give us power over our enemies, but at what cost? The enduring corpse of Balor was freed from deathless rest, to recompose its form, and take life again. The Fomorians, now with their leader renewed, have become violent, brutal, and audiacious. The sylvan struggle daily to keep the giants at bay, and protect their fragile landscape.
Llew Llaw Gyffes was hailed a hero for his service to Hibernia, but what of the events he has set in motion, what of the eventual consequences everyone in the lands must face? Balor is an Old One, with all the powers granted to the gods. In his physical form he is nearly unstoppable...save from the power of those who serve the Ancient Ways. But Hibernia has forgotten them, forgotten the gods, lost sight of ancient truths. What few realize is that with Hibernia in the state it is now, in constant war with Albion and Midgard, Balor has no oppositon from attacking from within. Combined with Hibernia's problems, this is a threat that could easily divide, weaken, and destroy the entire realm.
The Targe Avatars of Pantheon know this to be true, and have taken it upon themselves to follow up on the threat of Balor and his minions. They seek others to help them deal with and address the problem in HyBrasil, for events still must unfold that will reveal all the truths of what is really going on, and what will become of our people.