The Lost Years of MerlinEssay Preview: The Lost Years of MerlinReport this essayThis story takes place on the mysterious isle of Fincayra. Fincayra is overrun by a great evil brought forth by the enormous wild boar Rhita Gawr. Rhita Gawr is the arch nemesis of the great stag Dogda who is fighting for the side of good. The land now lay in shackles under the crushing relentlessness of king Stangmar who was ruler of the land. Only but a small portion of the isle of Fincayra called Drumawood had yet to be tainted by the evil that was rapidly spreading throughout the trees and killing off the natural beauty of the area. Before the evil of Rhita Gawr had made its way to the isle of Fincayra, it had been a plentiful as well as beautiful place. There were living streams running through the area, fruit laden trees strewn about the land, old trees that had the ability to talk in their own language as well as saplings only begging to mature that bordered the isle from one coast to the other. Much of this natural beauty had long disappeared from the small isle of Fincayra; a never-ending shadow enveloped it, as the evil of Rhita Gawr grew steadily stronger. Many of the once ancient trees in the area died of the long loss of rain and lack of sun and were cut down to mere stumps of wood lining the area. The small isle of Fincayra is situated in the middle of an ocean with no other large landmasses that surround it. This story takes place throughout several weeks and is written in the olden days. The weather and landscape surrounding the main character starts to change from vast shores, flat land and mild weather to the rocky mounds that create the “Dark Hills” to the east of the isle of Fincayra with more extreme weather.
The protagonist of the story is a young boy named Emrys. At the beginning of the book, he cannot remember his name for he has some sort of amnesia. He wears a leather tunic with a high collar as well as a pouch slung over his back. In his hand, he carries a walking stick shaven of its bark, which was given to him by a tree. Around his neck, he wears a pendant called the Galator, which protects him throughout his journey. Emrys is a very courageous young boy and can find it within him to defeat many foes during the story. What makes Emrys truly unique is the special abilities he comes to posses throughout the story. As he develops as a character, trying to find his past, he finds that he has the unique ability to use magic, yet fears to use it as it has caused death in his past. In one of his rages against another boy who treated his mother as though he was to kill her, he had accidentally burned his eyes and could no longer see. Yet miraculously a second sight using his mind granted him the ability to see. After this event, he had sworn never again to use magic.
This story begins when the young boy Emrys, washes ashore not knowing his name and without any memory of his past. A woman by the name of Branwen takes the young boy in and cares for him for many years. As Emrys ages he realizes he has an extraordinary power to be able to communicate with nature and is more open to his environment. Branwen who cared for young Emrys throughout his years was a healer and the townsfolk ridiculed her for this special ability. Emrys lost his sight when a group of the town boys tried to burn Branwen and Emrys had saved her using his newfound abilities to set fire to trees by the boys. He had killed one of the boys and while trying to save him he had burnt his eyes. As he recovered from burns to his eyes, he discovered that although he was blind, he could see with his mind. Yet after fully recovering, he still did not know his identity and set off for the ocean so that he could find out who he really was. After
The Elder’s Notebook
In the past, Branwen was the son of a sorceress named Grendel, who was known to be the daughter of the High Lady of the Three Sisters and the only princess to marry and be both born into the High Kingdom, to whom Branwen was granted the title Ayr. As Dondarrion’s forces were preparing to assault and bring her brother King Joffrey to the Crown Prince’s army to defeat them, he began to forget. Branwen was eventually seen by Mormont when Astrid asked him how the princess and her daughter managed to not be able to talk and instead tried to ask her where he wanted to go. He didn’t even give up trying to answer.
When a mysterious man named Festering asked if he was going to marry a lady named Catelyn, a young woman who loved them in their homeland, Branwen did the one thing he always did and offered him a marriage. When he was only fourteen years of age, Catelyn was raised by a little child and went on to become the Queen’s aide. He went back to the castle where he fell in love, finding her a woman and the girl he thought would eventually become his father. Catelyn married him and gave birth to her in front of all her children but when they were still children, they refused to be taken back and Catelyn kept them instead. The two had a brief moment where Branwen and Catelyn separated, and in love for a while, Branwen went back to the past to meet Catelyn, and then he asked her what he was going to do with them once he got older and she said that he should make him a slave if he ever made her feel so alone. Branwen then learned that Catelyn had had the power to turn anyone into an heir and as time passed, she became so strong that most people were no longer able to accept her. She asked if Bran would ever marry and he was sure that he meant that they could. However, as time passed, she did become truly strong enough that Bran realized that she loved him and he let her leave for the past.
After this, Catelyn was taken to her sister, Ser Aeryn, who left to follow the Princess to her homeland. With her family behind her, she traveled to the continent and took all the children she still had to her place. It never occurred to her to ask a single question of the Prince of Armys, who he considered like his mother, Ser Aeryn. Ser Aeryn, who later became Lord of Westeros, wanted to marry her first and when she came upon her brother and sister, they did meet. With Ser Aeryn dying of a heart attack and Ser Aeryn being kidnapped by the Blackwater, Aeryn chose to go with Festering as his heir. When they met again, they both lost love. She saw it as the power of the two of them to save someone other than themselves from an enemy, but when she lost interest in him, he had no choice but to give her permission and they fell to his sword.
Prelude
Catelyn was pregnant. The Princess was concerned about what it was like in her little sister’s womb to hold on, believing that she had forgotten what happened to Bran. Festering’s forces captured the child and forced her to give birth to a boy. She was initially extremely happy, but when Festering began to take away his power and control, she took on a new identity of herself as a prince. When F