Work in Progress – Expect change
Re-thinking the Time Line — I will need to work out some birth rates and distributions of different genetics. The 2 and 5 womb duty is planned for honest randomness, but three factors work against the plan. 1) The original designer, Bridgit Collins, is not there to administer it 2) Dana Bailey focuses on a pure Celtic breeding program for her core which forces the Sinoese and Russian reactions and 3) the ice-age causes technological losses.
This is how the Tuatha de Dana came to Tir na Nua
-2 - The great ship of the Gael sailed swift through the tightening grip of star light. The Tuatha de Dana all slept. Then ship master Bailey alone was awakened, he sensed the fearful threat. The great tuath ship rushed above the clouds, toward the shores of the new country, Tir na Nua. Looking ahead, it was barren of life, in chaos and storm, but the great magics of the Tuatha de Dana would put it right.
-1 - With their far sight the Druids of the Tuatha de knew that there was a good land here. What had seemed a clear in their seeing was made more difficult as they approached. There were two lands that seem to be inhabitable. One is sparse, a wasteland, but stable and at peace. The other seemed to be a fair land, but it was moon struck, star crushed, mountain whelmed, a great shaking of earth, a vast cascade of waters. For the brave Celts it is ideal.
0 - Driven by a fierce wind, Bailey took the steering oar and made to split the nine waves. No doubt the landing place is rough and inhospitable, rocks on every hand, but the great oarsman god of the Tuatha de steered their ship through the nine waves. Each wave roared its displeasure, each howled its resistance, each washed the deck in fury seeking to carry away the unwary. So it was that the leech, Bridgit Collins, was carried away. In fear, three gods defy Bailey and fled to the quiet land.
Others would have lost heart, but ship master Bailey was undetered. He mounted the nine waves and rode out the nine troughs to steer the great Tuath ship to rest upon the face of Tir na Nua between the great height of Slieb na Gael and the expanse of the Mountains of the West. (DB 37 yrs.)
1 - Then the Oak men blessed the land, the Druids of the Tuath de made formings and green places. First the birch and the alder grew in the meadows of grass, then the willow held to the streams, then too the oaks set down roots and sacred woods were formed by the Oak men of Dana. Then too, salmon were brought forth and the red deer and swine roamed among the seedlings. In the West, in the fair plain away from the burning of the ship of the de Dana the wise men and stewards made a habitation for the Tuath. Not to be outdone Dana herself births Llyr (1).
2 - More and more the people of Dana went out on the plain with the craft of the druids, of the oak men. There food grew for man and for beast in abundance. It was a pleasant land and children were born to the Tuatha de Dana. (25 wombs four fold as they say, 100 at the end of the generation.)
3 - Lugh (2) is born. He is remembered first for his many skills and that he did good. (40 yrs. and he took up arms. I would lay my weapon there)
6 - This is the way it was with the Tuatha de. Each wife with her husband had a first born, but second, Dana gave a child. The women bore this womb duty so that children of the gods were born. Second and Fifth were borne as womb duty for the Tuatha de Dana. But Dana favored the bright celtic stocks for her kings and queens. Dana herself bare Brigid (3) not the betrayer who fled, this was the true born daughter of Dana herself. Rus and Sinoese did not do their duty to the De Dana but selfishly made children of their own.
8 - Teutates (4) is born
9 - Morrigan (5) is born. (Difficult birth for DB.)
11 - Far in the north a party of the dru meet with tragedy. One of them is killed, but he is animated by the god of the earth to speak to them. That there is a necromancer of great power is clear and so the dru cleanse the place with fire. This is the custom in the north, to burn the dead.
12 - The wise of the Tuatha de consult with the great goddess, Dana and it is decided to meet the Necromancer and his minions with fire For a time this necromantic mind withdraws and avoids contact and the violent reaction that usually follows.
13 - Weyland, known as Loki (6) is born
16 - Gwynn (7) is born. (DB nearly dies in child birth, at 53 yrs old. Meds warn her against pregnancy.)
20 - the generation of Llyr takes wives and husbands. (about 100 pairs)
19 - There was a woman of Sin, Mitsuko, who delved into the knowledge of life and stole from the great Dana a life. This one, finding himself in the womb of the Bramble Sidhe, the Norfolk, lived among them until it was his time to wander, as do his brothers and sisters, though he did not know them by name or face. Much later he would learn his name, Tuan.(His mother Adelade is 17, a first gen Norfolk.)
20 - Soon after birth, Tuan goes with his Norfolk family to the roots of the Western mountains.
20 - Llyr and Brigid are handfasted. Now Brigid was long in flowering as was the way with many of Dana’s own children, but not so for Llyr.
30 - Most first gen families were begun. As they say, one hundred wombs four fold and again twice four hundred.
39 - The ship master, Baily dies. (84 yrs.)
40 - This is when the second generation began to take husbands and wives. Then there were but two hundreds and fifty of all the peoples, Celts, and Rus, and Sinoese, and Norfolk Umircen, and too of the lesser folks.
42 - The Rus were proud, and unhappy with the allotment given them by Dana and the rig Llyr. They made to take preminance over all the Tuatha de, but they were thwarted and cast down by Llyr (41) and the shieldmen of Llyr.
43 - Now Weyland/Loki focused his efforts on finding all manner of metals and rocks and powders of same for his magics and his pranks. (for this reason he was called Loki) So he went to the mountainous regions of Sliebe na Gael. There he delved its and found great treasure.
45 - This year Brigid began her moon rites and a wedding was prepared. This seemed ill to Lugh and he took Brigid, A moon time and a two day times they eloped and then Brigid was found by the Shieldmen and returned to Llyr. This was when Llyr’s heart was darkened to Dana’s plans and all her ways. Llyr’s anger was awful to see and his rage may not yet be cooled, who can say?
46 - Brigid bore Mannanan (Mac Llyr). In all this Llyr’s anger did not cool. Having given Llyr an heir, Brigid rejects him. For this and because he has no love for her at all Llyr dissolved their bonding. For this reason Dana takes with her Brigid her child and they lived among the islands of the inner sea. In her anger, Dana caused children to be born to Brigid without husband.
49 - Brigid bore Epona (8)
51 - Brigid bore Scota (9)
51 - Mannanan is sent to Llyr in his crystal palace at his insistance. Then Llyr became rig of the Tuatha de Dana, for Dana herself kept to the islands of the inner sea, and to Eire itself, and nolonger came to the crystal palace or ever to her people at Sliebe na Gael.
52 - That same witch of the Sinoese, Mitsuko, takes a life from Dana and holds it in her own womb.
52 - Also Brigid, sick of her mother’s use of her, took up a knife and opened her veins. Hearing this Lugh who haunted the fringes of the world, made his way to Eire to make her free. Before Brigid will leave, she destroyed the remaining lives that Dana had held. Lugh wants Brigid to travel with him, but she is wroth and goes off on her own.
53 - Mitsuko the leech bore Kazuki. (51 yrs.)
56 - The gods were good and made to grow upon the face of Tir na Nua much that was good, more land than the Tuatha de Dana could hold so that there was much that grew wild. Still the Norfolk, learned of the Dru, brought seed and made new to spread what was good still farther. They became known as the Briarwood Elvish, the Deer Riders, the Sidhe.
59 - At this time the seas of Tir na Nua were exceeding warm and on the land mountains burst forth with smoke and fire. The lights of the sky were dimmed and ice prevailed greatly on the face of Tir na Nua.
63 - The Sidhe fought the advance of the ice to help the things that lived on the land. Norfolk range east and west of the crystal palace of Llyr.
65 - This is when the ice forced the Tuatha de to all go to the South. Then Llyr’s folk lived at Sliebe na Gael. Also at this time Rus and some icefolk fled north onto the ice. Llyr with his sheildmen pursued them, but they were defeated by the ice and snow.
66 - Then the crystal palace was covered over with ice and lost. Much that was known and much that was made was lost. In grief perhaps Dana dies. (103)
67 - Llyr without restraint began to oppress those not of the Gael. He takes from the smiths their tools and makes of the learned men farmers and workers.
70 - Weyland/Loki delved into the Western mountains. In the face of Llyr’s prohibition he gathered the tools of the smiths and braziers and preserved some of the knowledge of the wise.
70 - Many people hated the oppressor Llyr. Umircens began to make for themselves a place upon the plains and east and west along the great ice up to the Western Mountains and the Disputed Lands.
98 - The witch/leech Mitzuko leads the Sinoese defection. (96-yrs.) Most of the men of the Sin are cut down by Llyr and his Shieldmen. At this time Llyr became their captain to hunt the Sinoese and cared little for leading the Tuatha de Dana. He calls his men the Bloody Hand and they are as a people apart and above their brothers of the Tuatha de. At this time the people said, “He is no king, he is like a Balor.” This was said because of his actions and because his father’s name had been Bailey.
100 - Scota established colonies over the Yellow, her people try to be seperate from Llyr (Balor) and his bloody hand who are setting up camps to raid against the Sinoese.
126 - Llyr/Balor and his Red Hand warriors begin to oppress brown skinned folk. Along with enslaving Sinoese he reduces many others to servitude if not out right slavery.
145 - The fifth generation is fully born. There are 100,000 – 150,000 men and women on the face of Tir na Nua.
158 - This is when the Ice prevailed most on the face of the land and then a great warm summer began to melt it away.
164 - Peoples continue to go out from Sliebe na Gael. Balor’s privations continued. This year an Umircen, Chip Wilson, finds his passage across the mountains. Balor made cities to take slaves in the disputed lands to the sea.
173 - Balor’s Red Hands, other folk begin to call them Fomorians, begin to raid Scots and even some among the central Gaellic peoples.
175 - This year the first of the Darklings and Gobli came into the disputed lands against Balor’s cities and his Fomorians.
176 - Browns and Blacks defected to the South across the Freedom River. There are others who escape, led by Billy Two-Feathers, into the mountains of Amerinds and Umircens.
180 - The great Darkling Wars began in earnest. Hordes emptied Central Gael except for the Horse folk who will became the Scythians.
187 - This was the Darklings and their Gobli Hordes high tide: only Mount na Gael, Scots wall, Fomorians at sea and in a few coastal forts, Horse folk (Scythians), Gaels who move out into the Oceanic Islands and south to become the Southern Gael and the Sinoese on their pinnacle forts remain north of the Freedom.
This begins a rough first draft of a timeline of the Celts, known as the Tuatha de Dana, who took Tir na Nua.
