Start Here: A Grail for Eidothea
All the chapters for Book 1 of The Môrdreigiau Chronicles
Recently, I found this old trunk in my attic. The first find is a diary from 1814. It’s magical. It’s full of hidden journaling and talks about sea dragons, or dreigiau môr.
I might best describe this diary as a Regency-era Arthurian quest to avoid ecological collapse, with sea dragons.
Book 1: A Grail for Eidothea
It is 1814. History will say the Napoleonic Wars are drawing to a close, but in reality, a new history is just beginning…
A Grail for Eidothea, the first in the Môrdreigiau Chronicles.
“My journal is gone, burned…”
Miss Eidothea Pendyr is content to live on the isolated western Welsh coast until a wounded man washes up on her beach. In tending him, she has a vision of the future: the world’s ecology has completely collapsed. The ocean has died, including all life within it, and life on land is fading quickly. The sea dragons, the dreigiau môr, a magical race almost forgotten by humans, have gone extinct. Humanity’s demise is close behind.
Eidothea is catapulted into taking up her mother’s quest to find the Greal1, last loaned to Arthur Pendragon by the dreigiau môr. Her cause is much larger: she is the longed-for prophet that will help prevent the world’s collapse.
The wounded man, Llyr, is draig môr, a sea dragon, and becomes her guide through dreigiau môr society and her partner in preventing her vision coming true. He is an adventurer at heart. He is almost always in dragon form, exploring the seas.
But Eidothea is not the only one seeking the Greal. Like Eidothea, Jasper Tregallas is part draig môr. He is considered inferior by his family because of his human mother. His family want the Greal for themselves. Jasper has been searching for it to finally gain his family’s approval.
Can Eidothea trust him despite his vocal support for her cause? Will she succeed in finding the Greal and change the future?
A Note on Notations
Throughout, I have used the colon (:) to mark conversations occurring via thoughts, instead of being spoken aloud, an ability unique to the dreigiau môr. This is the convention used by Eidothea in her diary, presumably because italics wasn’t an option for her, so I have kept it as is.
Chapters
The story continues in A River Trembles…
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