Sometime later, Deane's party encounters two warriors, Shamino and Geoffrey in the midst of battle. Hoping to help his former beloved's son, he instructs a tinker known as Julia to accompany the boy in his journeys and tells Deane that he must eventually seek out his brother in the Abyss. The monarch is struck by the boy's similarity to Aila and recognizes a pendant he wears as one he gave to her. Shortly thereafter, however, the group is beset by monsters, and Kati – impressed with Deane's prowess in dispatching them – asks to join the travelers.įrom there, the group proceeds to Castle Britannia where they are granted an audience with Lord British. After the egg hatches and the young serpent appears to bond with Deane, the paladin agree to pay for it. Outside the Abbey, Deane and Io meet a young shepherd boy named Kati who tries to peddle a silver serpent egg to the adventurers. He tells Deane that he senses that perhaps he and his brother might be able to complete their quest by working together. He tells the youth that Shiva did, in fact, stop by the Keep of Love and that he strove diligently to overcome his personal weaknesses which kept him from Avatarhood. Shortly after setting out, Deane is joined by Io, a fourteen year old bard whom he found climbing the Mother Tree shortly before hearing word of his father's death.Īrriving at Empath Abbey, Deane catches the attention of Brother Antos, who is astonished by the brightness of the boy's aura as he meditates. On his deathbed he exhorts the young paladin to take up the quest of Avatarhood himself and to find his long absent brother. Still later, when Deane is fifteen, Judge Talfourd is slain by criminals seeking vengeance for his judgments against him. Years later, when the child, Deane, is ten years of age, Shiva feels drawn by Lord British's call for an individual to take up the quest of the Avatar, and leaves Yew to seek such enlightenment – much to his younger brother's sorrow. He calls for his father, Judge Talfourd, and together they bury the woman beneath the tree and agree to raise her child, which bears a mysterious ankh-shaped birthmark on his hand. Some time later, after giving birth to a baby boy, she is waylaid by monsters while wandering in the Deep Forest, and dies defending her child.Ī young boy named Shiva comes across Aila's body and her still living infant beneath the "Mother Tree" of Yew. Obviously conflicted over his personal feelings for Aila, the young king refuses to believe her and she is dismissed from her service. The story opens with a young Lord British having a tense conversation with Aila, the attractive chief of the Trinsician paladins who is claiming to be the recipient of a divinely conceived pregnancy. The title page of the manga, featuring Deane and Shiva Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Silver: a silver serpent whom the party raises from an egg.Celest: (mentioned) a healer in Moonglow.Margot: (not explicitly named) a blind herbalist in Moonglow.Terran: (not explicitly named) a man-hungry homosexual barkeeper in Trinsic.Father Antos: (not explicitly named) a scholar at the Lycaeum.Brother Antos: a mystic living at Empath Abbey.Sentri: head of the paladins in Trinsic father to Aila and grandfather to Deane.Calumny: a Yewen magician Deane's childhood tutor and friend.Talfourd: a Yewen high judge father to Shiva and adoptive father to Deane.Lord British: the young and somewhat uncertain king of Britannia.Daranor: a dwarfish man in Hawkwind's employ.
Hawkwind: Lord British's corrupt adviser.Julia: a tinker assigned by Lord British to protect Deane.Geoffrey: a fighter traveling in Shamino's company.Mariah: a stern mage who is the object of Shamino's unwelcome affections.
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