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Visionary High Priestess of Afallon, Vivianne, daughter of Master Myrlyn, with her brilliant husband Taliesin Pen Bard of Rheged, emerge from the shadowed history of Dark Age Britain to guide and inspire a great generation of revered heroes and visionary priestesses of myth and legend to fulfill their destinies. Each character carries an identity that moves through an inner imaginal world, or is shed to be reborn into the outer world. These iconic characters come to life as they expose their psyches, their challenges and their passions within lucid and vivid dreams. The sixth century history of the "Hen Gogledd" -- the Old North of Welsh legend and lore -- echoes on and on in time through insights, impressions and the direct experience of a once forgotten and mysterious bard, born of tragedy, raised by mystics in Afallon, and blessed by the mentoring of Pen Bard Aneirin "of the flowing verse". The narrative becomes the avenue of the soul's journey, while deciphering clues of a storied antiquity. Mysteries of the Grail, Arthur Pendragon and the Fisher Kings are explored and exposed in a war torn land of turmoil, where only a few of the brave travelers, bards, warriors and saints find peace within the waking world, opening to the Otherworld of introspective dreams and mystic visions. Robert Jacobs continues the saga of ancient Arthurian legend in his second book of this genre, with the returning wise narrator of Afallon bringing more of these stories to us from his lifetime and Britain's historic past, describing the spiritual and psychological world of Post Roman Britain's transformative era. The bard's voice rouses our imagination to dream and expand our vision beyond boundaries of time, our histories, and our awakening souls.The multilayered chronicle culminates in epic battles, great romances, and timeless classics of poetic expression composed as kings and kingdoms rise or fall to their inevitable destinies and fates. The surviving bards, mystics, and heirs c