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.
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