Amanda had worked her way through the ranks, always under the shadow of the strange Archdruids. An order at the pinnacle of knowledge and power at the tip of Anam a' Chnoic society. They were an odd sort of people. Secluded within their fortress, a moon rock which fell from the heavens, a piece of the goddess herself carved to house her most loyal followers. Eventually the immortal daughter of the Shahanshah did move up the ranks, earning her adornment, and position of Archdruid...
But when she wore her adornment for the first time, something about everything changed. The world got dimmer, the warmth in her heart grew cold, and worse, her mind was filled with something new. She couldn't visualize Mother Moon anymore. Every time she tried, she envisioned a being of immense size and indescribable shape and form. That wasn't right at all. So she ran to a window to go behold her goddess and restore the light and warmth in her heart... But what she saw was the dead, empty egg which hatched the being that haunted her mind. Mother Moon was gone.
Fleeing into the wilderness, fearing no Saol Eile, only fearing what was above her. She tore off her adornment and found for herself a hiding place. Nobody else she met along the way seemed to see things this way. They looked up and saw their loving mother just as always. She had to find Cuidightheach, her guardian. She had to bask in the warmth of Mother Moon again. It didn't matter what it would take. She had to.
