Storm on the Irish Sea
In 1079, the Norse-Gael Godred Whitehand claimed the Kingdom of Man and the Isles. Accompanying him at the Battle of Sky Hill were Sir Brede, King Sigefrith’s cousin, and his brother-in-law, the young Norseman Eirik. Eirik had lived in Lothere in his teens, but just before the battle had inherited his father’s ships and gone abroad.
Whitehand spared the lives of the native Gaelic chieftains, and settled in to a stern but unchallenged reign. His ships had total dominion of the Irish Sea, so terrorizing the Irish, Scots, English, and Welsh that none dared even put a warship on the water.
Eirik stayed on Man rather than returning to Norway. By the time this storyline begins, he has grown in power until he is second only to Whitehand himself.
This is the first major storyline to reach outside of Lothere.
Theme: Diplomacy, treachery, war, and politics
Rating: R (graphic violence, sexual assault, nudity)
Chapters: 88
Written between September 20, 2006, and
April 15, 2012.