Before the great wars, before the gods were named, the land had to be taken - and someone always had to pay for it. Four generations ago, the Fir Bolg came home. Refugees who had crossed a sea they had no right to cross, carrying nothing but the memory of what Ireland once was to their ancestors - and the stubborn conviction that it could be theirs again. They cleared the plains, divided the provinces, and built something worth defending.
Now the Tuatha Dé Danann have arrived. A new people, strange and formidable, claiming the same island by a different right. Neither side is wrong. Both sides are armed. What follows is not a clash of heroes. It is a negotiation conducted in blood - over land, law, and the question of who gets to decide what a people are worth. Sreng carries a shield and a lifetime of loss into the field. Nuada leads a nation still learning what it means to fight for something other than survival.
And between them, on the plain of Mag Tuired, a wager will be made that neither side fully understands until it is too late to stop paying it. The Debt of Moytura begins here.
Before the great wars, before the gods were named, the land had to be taken - and someone always had to pay for it. Four generations ago, the Fir Bolg came home. Refugees who had crossed a sea they had no right to cross, carrying nothing but the memory of what Ireland once was to their ancestors - and the stubborn conviction that it could be theirs again. They cleared the plains, divided the provinces, and built something worth defending.
Now the Tuatha Dé Danann have arrived. A new people, strange and formidable, claiming the same island by a different right. Neither side is wrong. Both sides are armed. What follows is not a clash of heroes. It is a negotiation conducted in blood - over land, law, and the question of who gets to decide what a people are worth. Sreng carries a shield and a lifetime of loss into the field. Nuada leads a nation still learning what it means to fight for something other than survival.
And between them, on the plain of Mag Tuired, a wager will be made that neither side fully understands until it is too late to stop paying it. The Debt of Moytura begins here.