found were memories that lived on in myths and legends. No one remembered the Old Ones anymore.

But in their myths, the Greeks wrote of immortal gods on Mount Olympus. The Norsemen had a legend

of mighty, immortal warrior gods who lived in a kingdom known as Asgard. The Indians of the American

Southwest had their own mythology, involving sacred spirits known as the Kachina; the Arabs had their

mystic Djinn. From the Balkans, tales came of supernatural beings who could assume the form of animals

and stories of the "living dead," vampires who drained the living of the vital fluid of life. From those

legends and what he had learned of human history, Wulfgar was able to guess what must have happened

to many of the Old Ones who had survived the war.

found were memories that lived on in myths and legends. No one remembered the Old Ones anymore.

But in their myths, the Greeks wrote of immortal gods on Mount Olympus. The Norsemen had a legend

of mighty, immortal warrior gods who lived in a kingdom known as Asgard. The Indians of the American

Southwest had their own mythology, involving sacred spirits known as the Kachina; the Arabs had their

mystic Djinn. From the Balkans, tales came of supernatural beings who could assume the form of animals

and stories of the "living dead," vampires who drained the living of the vital fluid of life. From those

legends and what he had learned of human history, Wulfgar was able to guess what must have happened

to many of the Old Ones who had survived the war.

As to Gorlois, Wulfgar had learned his fate in an ancient human legend that told the story of a warlord

known as Arthur. Apparently, after fulfilling his part in the spell that had entombed the Dark Ones,

Gorlois had cast off his mage's robes and gone out to live among the humans. He became a warlord and

took a human for a wife, a beautiful young Welsh woman named Igraine. He had three daughters with

her, named Elaine, Morganna, and Morgause. One day, a human warlord named Uther Pendragon saw

Igraine and fell in lust with her. Aided by the power of his sorcerer, a man named Merlin, who was said

to be the offspring of a human and an incubus (an Old One and a human?), Uther took on the aspect of

Gorlois and bedded Igraine, then met Gorlois in battle. Thinking he was doing battle with only a mere

mortal, the enraged Gorlois had sought to use brute physical force to overcome his enemy. He had lived

among the humans for too long. By the time he realized that Uther was being aided by the spells of a

sorcerer, it was too late. Gorlois was slain by Uther and his wife, Igraine, was taken as Pendragon's

concubine.

Igraine gave birth to Uther's son, who was called Arthur, but this same sorcerer named Merlin took the

child away and raised him. Eventually, Arthur became king of the island nation known as Britain, with

Merlin at his side as his advisor. However, Morganna had not forgotten her mother's seduction and

disgrace, nor her father's murder.

For years, she plotted her revenge. One day, she came to Merlin and begged to be accepted as his

student. She proved to be a brilliant pupil (not surprising, Wulfgar thought, considering who her father

was) and she soon became known as the sorceress Morgan Le Fay. She used her powers to enchant

Arthur into making love with her and she gave birth to his son, whom she named Modred. The boy

would become the weapon she would use to bring Arthur to destruction. She then found a young and

beautiful De Dannan witch named Nimue and sent her to seduce Merlin. In the afterglow of passion,

Nimue gave Merlin a potion that put him into a deep sleep. His sleeping body was then taken by

Morganna and immured within the cleft of a large oak tree, which she enchanted so that Merlin would

remain there, trapped in a state of suspended animation for the next two thousand years. With the king's

protector thus imprisoned, she was able to set in motion her plot to destroy Arthur and his kingdom.

The rest of the legend Wulfgar found a rather tawdry tale of adultery and lust that was gilded as

romance. Eventually, Arthur and his bastard son met on the field of battle and killed each other, but that

was not what Wulfgar found most interesting. What was most interesting about the legend was that it

appeared to be quite true. Not only did it mention Gorlois, though Gorlois was portrayed as being