Pre-Prose Notes
Characters:
Alycen : a fianuis, or witch
Connor : Alycen’s love. Tormented by the sidhe. Nearly commits suicide.
Margaret: Alycen’s grandmother. Also a fianuis
Danna: Alycen’s mother, a fianuis
Fred: Connor’s best friend
Ceana: baobh sidhe (fallen angel), wants Connor
Taog: maor-righ sidhe (loyal angel), Alycen’s treoraich (teacher/guide).
Character Notes:
Alycen: Pretty woman, late 20s/early 30s, grey-green eyes, long, extremely thick ash blond hair which is poker-stright and a general nuisance, usually tied back or braided.
Connor: Dark, short, stocky guy. Fine facial features and beautiful amber skin. Wears a neatly trimmed goatee and closely cropped straight black hair. “Down to earth” in many ways: short, amiable, grounded, a bit unimaginative, conservative. “Solid.”
Margaret: 70s, bent, wrinkled, red-haired still, sharp blue eyes, proud, a little vain. Funny and irascible.
Danna: Sweet natured, plump, in her early 50s. A bit naïve.
Fred: Thin, gangly, with straw-like ashy hair and freckles. Good natured, tends to slouch.
Ceana: Dark brown, curly hair, voluptuous, earthy. Red-brown eyes that turn black when angry.
Taog: Silver-haired, blue-eyed. Looks like Friar Tuck, with a merry, if sometimes exasperated expression.
Plot Notes:
Alycen O’Ryan is a fianuis, or witch. She’s struggled her entire life to appear “normal” and ignore and avoid her ability to see and sense the spiritual world. Her love, Connor, attracts the attention of Ceana, a baobh sidhe, who attempts to make him her traill. Alycen must overcome her issues about her abilities, and quickly learn from Taog how to best use them, in order to save Connor from Ceana’s plan. (Possibly same book, possibly part 2). Becoming immersed in Tir Nan Og and the sidhe realms so quickly has a tremendous adverse affect on Alycen, who begins to lose her sanity. Connor must then overcome his ideas about “witchcraft” and the supernatural to rescue Alycen by becoming her anchor to the real world.
Premise Notes:
Spiritual warfare as faery lore.
The beings known as the sidhe in Ireland and Scotland are in fact angels. One group is the fallen angels (the baobh), the other are angels who remain loyal to Creator God (the maor-righ). The O’Ryan family are Witnesses, aka “Witches,” (fianuis) those with the gift of discernment, passed down mother to daughter, to see the hidden world of the sidhe (Tir Nan Og). Unfortunately, like most Witness/Witch clans, they have long since broken their oral tradition, and no longer remember the purpose of their gift, and usually view it as a curse.
Each fianuis has her own personal maor-righ who watches over her and guides her, known as a treoraich. The baobh sidhe enjoy slaving humans, particularly males, by appearing as unearthly beautiful women and offering sex. Once a human falls for the bait, the baobh sidhe hold their souls in thrall, and they become traill—a slave to the baobh sidhe.
Tir Nan Og is the realm that exists between earth and eternity, the spiritual dimension of the present. Ley Lines or fairy pathways, are energy lines crisscrossing the earth, where the distinction between the physical realm and the spiritual one is weak. Connor lives on a Ley Line.
Gaelic sources:
fianuis
witness, a witness, Irish fiadhnuise, fiadhan, a witness, Old Irish fiadnisse, testimony, fiadu, acc. fiadain, testem, *veidôn, Indo-European root veid, vid, know, see, as in fios, q.v.; Anglo-Saxon witta, a witness, English witness, root, wit, know.
baobh
a wicked woman, witch, Irish badhbh, hoodie crow, a fairy, a scold, Early Irish badb, crow, demon, Badba, the Irish war-goddess, Welsh bod, kite, Gaulish Bodv-, Bodvo-gnatus, Welsh Bodnod; Norse böð, g. boðvar, war, Anglo-Saxon beadu, g. beadwe, *badwa- (Rhys.). In Stokes' Dict. the Sanskrit bádhate, oppress, Lithuanian bádas, famine, are alone given. Also baogh.
maor-rìgh
nm. officer of court, messenger-at-arms; inflected on the first element
teachdaire
nm. pl.+an, messenger, courier, ambassador
treòraich
va. and vn. guide, lead, direct, strengthen
tràill
a slave, Irish traill (O'Br.), Middle Irish tráill (not well known to glossographers); from Norse þraell, English thrall.
Alycen : a fianuis, or witch
Connor : Alycen’s love. Tormented by the sidhe. Nearly commits suicide.
Margaret: Alycen’s grandmother. Also a fianuis
Danna: Alycen’s mother, a fianuis
Fred: Connor’s best friend
Ceana: baobh sidhe (fallen angel), wants Connor
Taog: maor-righ sidhe (loyal angel), Alycen’s treoraich (teacher/guide).
Character Notes:
Alycen: Pretty woman, late 20s/early 30s, grey-green eyes, long, extremely thick ash blond hair which is poker-stright and a general nuisance, usually tied back or braided.
Connor: Dark, short, stocky guy. Fine facial features and beautiful amber skin. Wears a neatly trimmed goatee and closely cropped straight black hair. “Down to earth” in many ways: short, amiable, grounded, a bit unimaginative, conservative. “Solid.”
Margaret: 70s, bent, wrinkled, red-haired still, sharp blue eyes, proud, a little vain. Funny and irascible.
Danna: Sweet natured, plump, in her early 50s. A bit naïve.
Fred: Thin, gangly, with straw-like ashy hair and freckles. Good natured, tends to slouch.
Ceana: Dark brown, curly hair, voluptuous, earthy. Red-brown eyes that turn black when angry.
Taog: Silver-haired, blue-eyed. Looks like Friar Tuck, with a merry, if sometimes exasperated expression.
Plot Notes:
Alycen O’Ryan is a fianuis, or witch. She’s struggled her entire life to appear “normal” and ignore and avoid her ability to see and sense the spiritual world. Her love, Connor, attracts the attention of Ceana, a baobh sidhe, who attempts to make him her traill. Alycen must overcome her issues about her abilities, and quickly learn from Taog how to best use them, in order to save Connor from Ceana’s plan. (Possibly same book, possibly part 2). Becoming immersed in Tir Nan Og and the sidhe realms so quickly has a tremendous adverse affect on Alycen, who begins to lose her sanity. Connor must then overcome his ideas about “witchcraft” and the supernatural to rescue Alycen by becoming her anchor to the real world.
Premise Notes:
Spiritual warfare as faery lore.
The beings known as the sidhe in Ireland and Scotland are in fact angels. One group is the fallen angels (the baobh), the other are angels who remain loyal to Creator God (the maor-righ). The O’Ryan family are Witnesses, aka “Witches,” (fianuis) those with the gift of discernment, passed down mother to daughter, to see the hidden world of the sidhe (Tir Nan Og). Unfortunately, like most Witness/Witch clans, they have long since broken their oral tradition, and no longer remember the purpose of their gift, and usually view it as a curse.
Each fianuis has her own personal maor-righ who watches over her and guides her, known as a treoraich. The baobh sidhe enjoy slaving humans, particularly males, by appearing as unearthly beautiful women and offering sex. Once a human falls for the bait, the baobh sidhe hold their souls in thrall, and they become traill—a slave to the baobh sidhe.
Tir Nan Og is the realm that exists between earth and eternity, the spiritual dimension of the present. Ley Lines or fairy pathways, are energy lines crisscrossing the earth, where the distinction between the physical realm and the spiritual one is weak. Connor lives on a Ley Line.
Gaelic sources:
fianuis
witness, a witness, Irish fiadhnuise, fiadhan, a witness, Old Irish fiadnisse, testimony, fiadu, acc. fiadain, testem, *veidôn, Indo-European root veid, vid, know, see, as in fios, q.v.; Anglo-Saxon witta, a witness, English witness, root, wit, know.
baobh
a wicked woman, witch, Irish badhbh, hoodie crow, a fairy, a scold, Early Irish badb, crow, demon, Badba, the Irish war-goddess, Welsh bod, kite, Gaulish Bodv-, Bodvo-gnatus, Welsh Bodnod; Norse böð, g. boðvar, war, Anglo-Saxon beadu, g. beadwe, *badwa- (Rhys.). In Stokes' Dict. the Sanskrit bádhate, oppress, Lithuanian bádas, famine, are alone given. Also baogh.
maor-rìgh
nm. officer of court, messenger-at-arms; inflected on the first element
teachdaire
nm. pl.+an, messenger, courier, ambassador
treòraich
va. and vn. guide, lead, direct, strengthen
tràill
a slave, Irish traill (O'Br.), Middle Irish tráill (not well known to glossographers); from Norse þraell, English thrall.
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